# Presentation: 831305

## GLAST E/PO Program StatusGLAST User’s Committee 11/18/06

- Lynn Cominsky
- Sonoma State University

## E/PO Work Breakdown Structure

- 1) Management
- 2) Web based Materials
- Web Site
- Space Mysteries* *
- 3) Educator Training
- Educator Ambassadors Program
- Conference participation
- 4) Printed materials
- 	TOPS Lesson Modules
- 	Posters and Educator Guides
- 5) SLAC Virtual Visitor Center* *
- 6) PBS documentary  and planetarium show (Tom Lucas)
- 7) Global (formerly GLAST) Telescope Network
- 8) Assessment and Evaluation (WestEd and NASA)

## GLAST E/PO website now NASA-style

- Completed upgrade of GLAST E/PO website  http://glast.sonoma.edu
- NASA-style and integrated with science site http://glast.gsfc.nasa.gov
- E/PO buttons for:
- Educators
- Public
- Multi-media gallery
- Resources and Links
- Getting ready for launch!

## Space Mysteries

-  Galactic Doom Space Mystery in final revision phase
- Solar Supernova now online!
-  Watch stars evolve
-  Learn the relationships between mass, luminosity and stellar lifetime
-  Determine the eventual fate of our Sun

**Space Mysteries**

-  **TESTERS WELCOME!**

## GLAST joins MySpace community

- "Can't Wait 'till Launch!"Male 20 years old ROHNERT PARK, CALIFORNIA United States

**GLAST**

- “A Satellite with a MySpace account Is this the beginning of skynet?”
- “Thanks for the add! You are now my favorite non-biological entity. HAL is just too... full of himself, you know?”
- “of all my satellite friends, you're ranked highest ... you'll always be ahead of Swift there. You rock my space, GLAST!”

- http://www.myspace.com/GLAST

- GLAST now has 145 friends, and a blog

## Educator Ambassadors

- GLAST supports 9 Educator Ambassadors
- Training July 10-14, 2006 at SSU
- We concentrated on normalizing content of presentations so that we could better measure the impact of the program.
- FY06: over 2200 teachers, over 1500 students and over 500 members of the public were direct participants in workshops, classroom presentations and lectures (as reported to EDCATS)

-    CA    BC   WY KS    MI      IL    CT       MI     NJ

## AGN Popup Book

-  Now available!
-  Tasty Active Galaxy activity
-  “How the Galaxy Got Its Jets” children’s story
-  Description of active galaxies, components, and glossary

- http://glast.sonoma.edu/teachers/popup.html

## How the Galaxy Got Its Jets

## Supernova Educator Unit – with XMM

- WestEd review completed

**Poster of Supernovae**
-  Images of real Supernovae
-  Shows what a Supernova looks like during different stages of the explosion – timeline used for biography

-  3 activities
-  Biography of a Supernova
-  The Crawl of the Crab
-  At the Heart of a Supernova

## Black Hole FAQ Brochure

- Funded primarily with EXIST mission concept study funds, but partly subsidized by GLAST
- Accompanies planetarium show
- Future print runs will be funded by and will feature GLAST
- Spanish version now available in print.

## SLAC Virtual Visitor’s Center

**SLAC Virtual Visitor’s Center**

-  Now installed on SLAC website
-  Just reviewed by WestEd
- - A few changes to introductory text are in progress
**http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/vvc/glastlat/lat.html**

**Seeing Gamma Rays - the Large Area Telescope**

## Monster of the Milky Way

-  Features Steve Ritz on both website and show
-  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole

**Monster of the Milky Way**

## Planetarium show and teacher’s workshops

- Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity - Now showing:
*Denver Museum of Nature & Science*
*Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland California*
*Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge*
- Bakersfield College, California
- Heritage Planetarium, Maryville, Tennessee
- State Museum of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
*Adler Planetarium – starts in January - Chicago*
- Oregon Museum of Science & Industry in Portland
- Clarkstown School District, Nyack New York
- New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque
- Eugenides Foundation, Athens Greece
- Thessaloniki Science Center - Thessalonki Greece
- Dolphinarium and Planetarium - Tampere, Finland

*Coming soon to SSU’s portable planetarium!*

## Black Holes Educator Resource Area

- Link to NOVA site
- Link to DMNS planetarium show site
- Educator’s Guide
- Black Hole FAQ brochure
- PowerPoint slides for teacher’s workshop
- Other links and resources
- Classroom activities
- Cool BH games
- Science web sites

- http://glast.sonoma.edu/teachers/blackholes/

## Potential Educational Projects

- News since 5/06:
-  PROMPT telescopes at CTIO
-  5 optical and 1 IR 0.4 m
-  Operated by SkyNet software
-  Pi of the Sky – at Las Campanas – Polish collaboration

**Global Telescope Network 11/06**

- 6 PROMPT telescopes at CTIO

- 2 Pi of the Sky 4 Mpixel CCD cameras at Las Campanas

## Evaluation Process

- FY06 evaluations from WestEd:
- Supernova Educator’s Unit
- LAT Simulator
- Educator Ambassador Training July 2006
- Awaiting evaluation of Solar Supernova
- Submitting to NASA product review on 12/1:
- Magnetic Globe Lithograph (part of SN Educator Unit)
- Black Hole FAQ brochure (English and Spanish)
- Active Galaxies Pop-up Book
- Solar Supernova Space Mystery
- SLAC VVC LAT Simulator

## E/PO Summary

**We are gearing up for launch**
**Most major work items are now complete**
**TOPS (3 modules)**
**PBS NOVA and planetarium shows**
**SLAC VVC LAT Simulator**
**AG Educator’s guide and pop-up book**
**Website redesign **
**Many PR print jobs have been submitted for launch and GLAST Symposium kits**
**Lanyards**
**Frisbees**
**GLAST magic cubes**
**Magnets**
**In progress for launch:**
**	****Model**
**	****Folders**

** ****Lithos**
** ****Mission posters**
** ****Fact Sheets**
** ****Stickers**