NASA Education and Public Outreach Group
NASA's Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) group at Sonoma State University, founded in 1999, is a provider of educational materials for students, educators, scientists, and the public. Funded by NASA and the United States Department of Education, employees work together to create educational guides, fact sheets, worksheets, posters, games, and informational websites. Most of these educational materials are related to the four major missions that support the group: Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST), Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, XMM-Newton, and NuSTAR. In addition to those four NASA missions, E /PO is also working an CanSat project for secondary school students and an online college cosmology course equivalent to a second year undergraduate astronomy course. Fermi. Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is an international and multi-agency mission that was launched in 2008. The main Fermi E/PO website is: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/. Resources provided by SSU's NASA E/PO are: Visit: "Far Out Math" at https://web.archive.org/web/20120827112514/http://www.topscience.org/books/farout_math43.html "Scale the Universe" at https://web.archive.org/web/20120827112701/http://www.topscience.org/books/scale_universe44.html "Pi in the Sky" at http://topscience.org/books/pi_sky45.html Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/agn.php Visit: http://gtn.sonoma.edu/ Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/race.php Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/popup.php know about black holes. Visit: http://fermi.sonoma.edu/teachers/blackholes/index.php Swift. Swift is a NASA gamma-ray burst explorer  satellite, launched on November 20, 2004. The main Swift E/PO website is: http://swift.sonoma.edu/ The resources provided by SSU's NASA E/PO are: Visit: http://grb.sonoma.edu/ Visit: http://lhsgems.org/gemspubs.html Visit: http://swift.sonoma.edu/education/index.html Visit: http://swift.sonoma.edu/education/index.html Visit: http://swift.sonoma.edu/education/index.html XMM-Newton. XMM-Newton is a European Space Agency X-ray spectroscopy observatory launched in December 1999. In 2003, SSU took the lead for the US portion of the E/PO program. The main XMM-Newton E/PO website is: http://xmm.sonoma.edu . Resources provided by SSU's NASA E/PO are: Visit: https://web.archive.org/web/20070707201742/http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/en/kids/blackhole/ Black Hole Rescue is also available in Spanish at: https://web.archive.org/web/20070628203619/http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/sp/kids/blackhole/index.shtml Visit: http://xmm.sonoma.edu/edu/ruler.html Visit: http://xmm.sonoma.edu/edu/supernova/index.html  Visit: http://xmm.sonoma.edu/edu/clea/index.html Visit: http://xmm.sonoma.edu/edu/planetarium/index.html NuSTAR. NuSTAR is the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array which was launched in 2012. E/PO materials and resources for NuSTAR are forthcoming. EAs. Educator Ambassadors Visit: https://web.archive.org/web/20070630230944/http://epo.sonoma.edu/ambassadors/ to meet the Ambassadors, and to see the schedule of upcoming events. Space Mysteries. Space Mysteries are web-driven, inquiry-based games that are aligned to national science and mathematics standards. Students have fun while learning and trying to solve the original 3 mysteries which were sponsored by NASA's LEARNERS program: Alien Bandstand, Live! from 2-Alpha and Starmarket. The newest mystery - "Solar Supernova?" - was sponsored by GLAST  E/PO and is now ready for you to play! Visit:http://mystery.sonoma.edu/ PBS. SSU's NASA GLAST E/PO was an important contributor to the PBS NOVA show "Monster of the Milky Way." Visit: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/program.html to watch the movie. Other. SSU E/PO also helped to create the planetarium show "Black Holes: The Other Side of Infinity" directed by Thomas Lucas and produced in association with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. For more information about the planetarium show, visit: http://www.spitzinc.com/fulldome_shows/index.html