CIRA Outreach

If you organise or take part in any astronomy outreach activities, please add a brief description to this page so we can keep a record of what's going on. This makes writing reports for CIRA/ICRAR/Faculty/whoever, much easier. For record-keeping purposes, please also include an estimate of the size of the audience where known. Please also add any interviews, press releases or other contact with the media to this table.

If you don't have a wiki login, either ask Cormac to set you up with one, or email the details of your event to me john [dot] morgan [at] curtin [dot] edu [dot] au and I'll add it for you.

Previous events can be found here:

Upcoming events

Event Date(s) Location People
National Science Week 13-21 August Australia ?
Curtin Open Day 21 August Curtin J-P, ?

Past events - 2011

Date Event Description People
Jul 26th Demonstration Taught 5 Curtin students and staff basic astronomy for a trip to a remote community John M
Jul 6th Talk My Science, ~30 yr 10 talented and gifted Como SC John M
Jul 5th Talk My Science, ~30 yr 9 talented and gifted Como SC John M
Jul 4th Talk My Science, ~30 yr 8 talented and gifted Como SC John M
June 22nd Video Conference Via Questacon on SKA ~? kids in total John G
June 21st Video Conference Via Questacon on SKA ~10 kids in total John M
June 18th Talk Scitech Teachers' Professional Learning Day, Bunbury ~8 teachers in total John M and Kirsten
June 16th-17th SKA Talks and ICRAR stall Scitech Science Festival, Bunbury ~1400 people in total John M and Kirsten
June 8th Guerilla Astronomy South Perth foreshore ~60 people John M, Mick T, Tim Y, Gerhardt, Kirsten
May 19th Video Conference Via Questacon on SKA ~35 kids in total John M
May 17th Video Conference Via Questacon on SKA ~20 kids in total Randall
April 4th Talk AGWA: Talk for ~40 amateur astronomers John M
March 14th School visit Banksia Park primary, Leeming. Talk for Year One (~40 kids) Megan (and that's all folks)
March 12th Astrofest 2011 >3250 people attended this year Lots of people
March 10th Guerilla Astronomy Informal observing on the South Perth Foreshore Megan, Tim Y, Kirsten
February 17th Guerilla Astronomy Informal observing on the South Perth Foreshore Megan, Tim Y, Kirsten, Gerhardt, John M, Hayley
February 15th Staff training Fixing Scitech's telescopes and training the outreach staff in their use Megan
February 1st The Jodcast News Jodcast February 2011 issue Megan
January 14 & 20 NYSF 2011 Engineering activities at Tech Park (14 & 14 students) Franz, Peter, Mark
January 1st The Jodcast - Fifth Anniversary! News and presenter Jodcast January 2011 issue Megan

Media 2011

Date Event Description People
Oct 3rd Radio show ABC South West discussing October Night Sky, ISS, theSkyNet and neutrinos John M
Sep 1st Radio show ABC South West discussing September Night Sky, ISS and SKA John M
Aug 4th Radio show Discussing Juno probe on SBS Roberto
Aug 1st Radio show ABC South West discussing August Night Sky John M
Jul 4th Radio show ABC South West discussing July Night Sky John M
Jun 21st Radio show ABC South West discussing Winter Solstice John M
Jun 16th Comment Article WAToday on Lunar Eclipse John M
Mar 17th Comment Science Network WA Article John M
Mar 15th Comment Science Network WA Article John M
Feb 8th Comment In an article on a paper published in ApJ, written for COSMOS Megan
Feb 2nd Comment Science Network WA Article John M
Jan 8th Radio show Guest on the Event Horizon on Astronomy.FM Megan

Useful links

Astronomy WA
ScienceNetwork WA
IYA2009 (global site)
Portal to the Universe (astronomy news)
The Jodcast
Triple S science fairs (no further Triple S fairs will be held)
CAP (Communicating Astronomy with the Public) Journal

outreach/start.txt · Last modified: 2011/10/05 18:15 by johnmorgan
 
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