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AUI Sponsors Student Outreach Event at 229th AAS Meeting

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AUI Sponsors Student Outreach Event at 229th AAS Meeting

Associated Universities, Inc. sponsors the American Astronomical Society local student outreach event at AAS winter meetings. This event is geared towards underserved populations in middle- and high-school. The society welcomes local student groups, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) program participants, home schoolers and families for an interactive afternoon of science.

Students have the opportunity to participate in hands-on demonstrations and speak with world famous scientists and engineers at the forefront of astronomy research.

Following a welcome talk by a renown scientist, the students are chaperoned into the AAS Exhibit Hall to meet with several exhibitors for exciting hands-on activities covering topics such as discovering exoplanets, building an interferometer, dark matter, infrared cameras, light spectrum, radio astronomy, deploying the James Webb Space Telescope and more.

As the students leave, they receive a backpack full of resource materials to further their exploration.

At the 229th AAS meeting, in Grapevine, Texas, there were 320 students in attendance from Dallas County schools.

Tim Spuck, AUI's STEM Education Development Officer and Suzy Gurton, NRAO's EPO Assistant Director, working together to provide a 12 minute explanation on the Solar Eclipse that will cross the US in August 2017

Tim Spuck, AUI’s STEM Education Development Officer and Suzy Gurton, NRAO’s EPO Assistant Director (seated), working together to provide a 12 minute explanation on the Solar Eclipse that will cross the US in August 2017

Recent News

ALMA Reveals Stunning Details of Infant Galaxies in the Early Universe

The [CII] Resolved ISM in STar-forming galaxies with ALMA (CRISTAL survey) peered back to when the Universe was only about one billion years old – a mere toddler in cosmic terms. These observations are helping scientists understand how galaxies formed and evolved from primordial gas clouds into the organized structures we see today.