One Astronomer's Noise

Forgive me, I’m sleep deprived, and it’s just the first night of the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC. (Check out #aas and #aas215 on Twitter. If you really want to sink your teeth into the event, Astrosphere will be live-streaming a bunch of talks and press conferences!)

But I will press on sleepily for a short post… the Dark Skies, Bright Kids project at UVa is putting together a book! To learn more about this great outreach program being developed by Dr. Kelsey Johnson and a number of post-docs, grad students, and undergrads at UVa, come to our poster on Tuesday (445.01).  I promise, once the website is up and rolling, I’ll post a link here as well.  One of the group members, Laura Jackson, created some lovely artwork to explain various astronomical concepts in English and in Spanish to the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders.  The rest of the DSBK team pitched in to create a booklet, of which we will have a few copies to give away at the AAS.  If you are interested in astronomy outreach to this age group, please come to our poster and check it out. Here’s a teaser:

You know the drill… click to embiggenate!