West, coprincipal investigator with Christiansen, traveled from the College of William and Mary in Virginia for the weekend seminar. Through Internet communication, the teachers will be able to instruct students on guiding the telescope toward the sun and capturing their own images. Web cameras will show the students how the telescope moves in correspondence with their directives. By combining their own data with the data from students at other schools taken in past sessions, they ll be able to track the movement of a particular sun spot and calculate the speed of the sun s rotation. It s whatever they get.
Science is all about doing experiments.
These outreach programs rely on technology and advanced instruments to grab the attention of the intended audience, but it s up to the professors and graduate students involved to engage the students. Thomas Miller wrote. To put it in plain words, it was the trippiest experience I have ever had. Destiny the science bus, or Traveling Science Laboratory. In the next issue of Endeavors .