July 7 - 9, 2016: VENGA - Explore Nearby Galaxies
A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory
Other Websites:
● NASA Cosmic Times
● GCET (Galaxies and Cosmology Explorer Tool)
● Telescopes from the Ground Up
● NASA Spinoffs (All about technologies based on NASA research and products)
● Tonight’s Sky - Observing Planning site - good for hosting star parties
● Star in a Box - LCOGT HR Diagram Education resource
● Globular Cluster HR Diagram Animation - Space Telescope
● Hubble Images (how they make them)
Facilitator Email Contact Info:
Dr. Keely Finkelstein - keelyf [at] astro.as.utexas.edu
Mr. Marc Wetzel - wetzel [at] utexas.edu
Graduate Student: Ms. Sydney Sherman - ssherman [at] astro.as.utexas.edu
Graduate Student: Mr. Jonathan Florez - jflorez [at] astro.as.utexas.edu
This workshop is supported in part by a NSF grant (award # AST-1413652) to Dr. Shardha Jogee as part of the broader impact to her grant, “Unveiling the Assembly History of Galaxies by Dissecting their Structure, Chemical Evolution, and Stellar Populations”. Additional support for McDonald Observatory education programs was provided by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, Carolyn Keenan and Charlie Gaines, Hugh Gragg, Lynn Lyles Brill, Leonard Tedesco, and Bill and Alice Wright. We also thank Joe and Lucy Parsley for support of the Texas Galileo Teacher Training Program.
