A group of nine outreach and education professionals from across the United States and Puerto Rico was selected to be the 2016 class for the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP), an immersive astronomy outreach and awareness program sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). These ambassadors, each of whom has a...
Astronomy programs can provide many advantages to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers and students. The Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Project ASTRO is one stellar example of this. ASTRO partners professional and amateur astronomers with educators - who visit partner classrooms at least four times during the school...
Tim Spuck's book, Einstein Fellows: Best Practices in STEM Education has received the Book of the Year award by its publisher, Peter Lang Publishing, a major international academic publishing house. Congratulations to Tim!
December 10, 2015 The anticipation is contagious. On this crisp, clear night in West Virginia only two types of sounds fill the air as a group of teachers and planetarium managers walk down the road to a 40-foot radio telescope: footsteps and loud, jubilant outbursts of "Can you see the star cluster Pleiades over there?" Those exclamations...