Students at Lincoln Elementary School in Demotte, Indiana, with the newly unveiled image. Carol Gray, fourth grade teacher, is participating in the National Rural Schools Association STEM Initiative.
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International Year of Astronomy
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November 2009: Examples of IYA Multiwavelength Image Unveiling Events: The Galactic Center Michael J. Malaska, PhD, of the Raleigh Astronomy Club has help with a dramatic unveiling at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Students at Lincoln Elementary School in Demotte, Indiana, with the newly unveiled image. Carol Gray, fourth grade teacher, is participating in the National Rural Schools Association STEM Initiative.  Eureka Public Library District in Eureka, Illinois, partnered with local schools. Janet Moore, a NASA Educator Ambassador, shared her knowledge with elementary and high school students and the public in multiple events.  Visitors to the Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Sharpe Planetarium in Memphis, Tennessee, were “thrilled” with the beauty of the images.   Sheree Westerhaus, science educator and previous Challenger Learning Center educator, with two volunteers who unveil the images to “lots of oohs and ahhs” at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  Mary L. Cook Public Library in Waynesville, Ohio, surrounds the prints with many astronomy resources from the library.  Librarian Patricia Jarog with excited unveiling helpers at Des Plaines Valley Public Library District -- Lockport Branch Library, in Lockport, Illinois.  At the Kingsville Public Library in Kingsville, Ohio, Director Mariana Branch and library patron, Ted Quirke (dressed as Galileo) unveiled the NASA images in an event that was a “huge success”.  At the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, Hubble Space Telescope engineer Justin Cassidy provided hands-on demonstrations of the tools that astronauts used during Servicing Mission 4.  Students at Texas A&M University-Commerce in Commerce, Texas, find it easy to get a close-up look of the prints in their hallway.  The images are on permanent display over the public entrance to the Berkeley County Planetarium, located at Hedgesville High School in Hedgesville, West Virginia. “They are so beautiful. Thank you for doing this for (our) tiny planetarium,” said Elizabeth S. Wasiluk, Planetarium Director.  Grad students Brad Barlow and Raj Saha from the Astronomy and Physics Department of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill talk to students in 3rd through 5th grades, staff, parents, and visitors at Mangum Elementary School in Bahama, North Carolina.  Visitors to the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York, participated in several activities such as a Starlab, solar viewing, and make and take Hubble telescopes, and learned about some of the most famous Hubble images.  A family visits the Saint Louis Science Center in St. Louis, Missouri, where activities included building planispheres, building a moon clock, and coloring stations.  The center of the Milky Way provides a colorful backdrop for these students on "Wacky Tacky Day" at Southwest Early College, a university preparatory middle and high school, in Kansas City, Missouri. |
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