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2016 Astronomy Outreach Ambassadors to Visit World-class Observatories in Chile

2016 Astronomy Outreach Ambassadors to Visit World-class Observatories in Chile

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...

Teaching STEM Through Astronomy’s Lens

Teaching STEM Through Astronomy’s Lens

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...

Nine ACEAP participants visited Chile to learn about NSF-funded, ground-based astronomy

Nine ACEAP participants visited Chile to learn about NSF-funded, ground-based astronomy

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...