Our Science in Service program is a collaboration with Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service, the HMI and AIA teams, and Dr. Cherilynn Morrow to train undergraduate students in communicating science to K-14 students and the community. Our program includes formal undergraduate classroom training and workshops in science education and communicating science, service learning issues, the National Science Standards, science education reform, as well as current solar science understanding. After training, Student Science Fellows perform weekly ongoing outreach to community-based groups such as the Boys and Girls Clubs and local underserved school districts. Science Fellows will be using both our Space Weather Monitors and Solar Planetarium program with students. Formal evaluation has shown our program to be so successful that Stanford University has designated it as a model and will provide support to expand the program to other science disciplines. To encourage broader participation, Haas has invited Dr. Cherilynn Morrow to give a workshop to other Stanford faculty on Scientists Involvement With E/PO. The E/PO Projects of HMI and AIA Deborah Scherrer, Dave MacKenzie, Ed Deluca Harvard’s High Energy Astrophysics Division and the Science Education Department at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory have partnered with the Christa McAuliffe Challenger Learning Center to design a Sun-Earth mission scenario for use in Challenger centers around the nation. The solar-based simulation experience, and the science embedded within, will be accessible to both students and a general audience. The Christa McAuliffe Center annually hosts more than 500,000 upper elementary and middle school students and more than 20,000 classroom teachers. In collaboration with the Lawrence Hall of Science and NASA’s LWS program, we have created a solar planetarium show for small, interactive planetaria. Our show features almost-full- dome projection of imagery and video, hands on activities, and classroom enhancements. Materials will be published and distributed as a Planetarium Activities for Student Success (PASS) manual. Challenger Program Science in Service at Montana takes the form of the Space Public Outreach Team (SPOT), a collaboration between the Montana Space Grant Consortium, MSU’s Space Science and Engineering Lab, and U Montana at Missoula. Undergraduates at the universities are trained in public speaking and space science content, then made them available to K-12 classrooms and the general public for presentations around the state. In the fall semester of 2005, presenters visited over 2,500 students and gave 70 presentations. Formal evaluation has shown the program to be outstandingly successful at inspiring students in science. Using Solar Science to Inspire Science in Service - Haas Solar Planetarium Program Science in Service - Montana SID – The low-cost space weather monitor Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance monitor Preassembled and pretuned Students build their own, simple antennas Data handled and plotted by Excel or simple tools Changeable frequency boards tuned to particular VLF transmitters around the world avoid need for tuning antennas Easy to set up and use Central data repository and communication site Targeted for use in high schools Low cost (~$150 per monitor) Designed by Ray Mitchell, Teacher Intern Atmospheric Weather Educational System for Observation and Modeling of Effects Designed to capture ELF/VLF frequencies, roughly kHz Dual use system -- Daytime: monitor solar activity Nighttime: monitor atmospheric phenomena such as lightning, whistlers, sprites Precision timing/phase accuracy; highly sensitive Broadband and narrowband Preassembled; easy to set up, use, and repair Data appropriate for high schools, community colleges, and solar and ionospheric researchers Moderate cost (~$3100 per monitor) AWESOME -- The research quality monitor AWESOME antenna in Elazig, Turkey Developed in conjunction with Stanford’s Space, Telecommunications and Radioscience Laboratory (Umran Inan, Morris Cohen, Justin Tan) In partnership with NSF/CISM and SOHO/MDI, we have developed Space Weather Monitors designed to enable students to detect changes to the Earth’s ionosphere caused by solar activity. Our monitors are VLF receivers that track changes in signal strength of VLF transmissions as they bounce off the ionosphere. Solar events change the density of ions in the ionosphere and hence affect where VLF waves can bounce. The instruments come preassembled though students must build their own antenna. Monitors are being placed in minority- serving high schools and community colleges throughout the nation. Stanford hosts a centralized data repository and blog site where students can exchange and discussion data. Data collected from student monitors is useful both to solar and ionospheric researchers. Classroom materials and teacher workshops are being developed in collaboration with Chabot Space and Science Center. The Space Weather monitors have been designated by the United Nations as educational projects for the International Heliophysical Year, IHY Inspired by the AAVSO and developed by teacher interns, two versions of the monitor exist – one simple and low cost, SID, and one research quality – AWESOME: Through the United Nations IHY 2007 program we intend to place 5 SID and 1 AWESOME monitors in each of the 191 countries of the world! Space Weather Monitor Program Solar exploration inspires students and the public to gain a better understanding of the Sun’s role in the Earth’s environment. New solar discoveries also inspire innovative educational efforts to communicate the results of these explorations. The HMI and AIA teams support an exciting E/PO program that addresses formal education, informal education, and public outreach. HMI Education/Public Outreach Partnerships Institution * For AIA Student Involvement K-14 Curriculum Development Teacher Workshops Assessment Support Multimedia Development DistanceLearning Support Distribution of Materials Access to Undeserved Public/infomaleducation StanfordXXXXXXXXX LMSALXXXXXX Stanford-HaasXXXXX MSU*XXXXXXXXX SAO*XXXXXXXXX The Tech Museum XXXXX Chabot Space and Science Center XXXXX Morrison Planetarium /CA Academy of Sciences XXXX Lawrence Hall of Science XXXXX IIISEXX NASA-COREX Partnerships