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Oxford Astrophysics' Outreach Activities
Started from Pat Roche's slides from the March 2011 outreach discussion forum
See also the March 2011 Outreach Status Report
Programme Name |
Description |
Audience |
Coordinator |
| Open Evenings: | |||
| Telescope Evenings | Talk, observing, games, coffee | General Public, Families, Local Community | AmyMcQuillan, PhilMarshall, StephenWilkins, SianOwen |
| School Evenings | Talk, observing, games | Schoolchildren 8-18, Teachers | AmyMcQuillan, SianOwen |
| Philip Wetton Telescope | In-house optical observatory | General Public, Families, Local Community, Schoolchildren 8-18, Undergraduates | FraserClarke |
| Astronomy Games | Top Trumps, Height Chart etc | Schoolchildren 8-18, Families, General Public | StephenWilkins, PhilMarshall |
| Talks: | |||
| Talks in Schools | Schoolchildren 8-18, Teachers | ||
| Halley, Sciama | Lecture series | General Public, Local Community | PatRoche |
| Museum of the History of Science | Talk series | General Public, Local Community | |
| Astronomy for All | Talk series | General Public, Local Community | CharlieBarclay |
| Green Templeton College | Talk series | General Public, Local Community, Undergraduates | EstelleBayet |
| Projects: | |||
| Zooniverse | Citizen Science | General Public | ChrisLintott |
| Global Jet Watch | KatherineBlundell | ||
| Goonhilly SKA Visitor Centre | Radio Telescope | General Public, Local Community | MikeJones,SteveRawlings |
| Media: | |||
| TV, Radio | Occasional, by invitation | General Public | SaschaSchediwy, PedroFerreira |
| Social media web presence | General Public, Social Network | TBA | |
| Web apps | Astronomy internet toys | General Public | ChrisWolf |
| Events: | |||
| Royal Society Summer Exhibitions | Annual outreach fair | Schoolchildren 8-18, Teachers, Outreach workers | |
| Oxfordshire Science Festival | Annual science fair (talks, drop-in events) | General Public, Local Community, Schoolchildren 8-18 | SianOwen |
| AstroFest | ? | ? | ? |
| Education Support: | |||
| IoP Teachers' Conferences | Lectures, workshops with visiting teachers | Teachers | PatRoche |
| Cosmology Teacher Training | Week-long course | Teachers | JoDunkley |
Future Plans:
- Links with Science Oxford – expansion plans
- Feedback on events – forms, web entry
- Training & grad student seminars
- Media traning, Press releases
- Linkage to classroom activities
- Facebook pages
- Undergraduate contributions?
- Speaker’s Corner, Café Scientifique, Radio Oxide
- Use of remote automated telescopes
- GalaxyZoo – Impact on careers, work experience, analyses, Zoo Teach
-- PhilMarshall - 24 Mar 2011
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