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AN: ED51C-1209    [PDF]
TI: Solar Week: Learning from Experience
AU: * Alexander, D
EM: dalex@rice.edu
AF: Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251 United States
AU: Hauck, K
EM: karin@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: UC Berkeley, Grizzly Peak @ Centennial Rd., Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: Solar Week is a week-long set of games and activities allowing students to interact directly with solar science and solar scientists. Solar Week was developed as a spin-off of the highly successful Yohkoh Public Outreach Project (YPOP). While YPOP provided access to solar images, movies and activities, the main goal of Solar Week was to enhance the participation of women, who are under-represented in the physical sciences. Solar Week achieves this by providing young women, primarily in grades 6-8, with access to role models in the sciences. The scientists participating in Solar Week are women from a variety of backgrounds and with a variety of scientific expertise. In this paper, our aim is to provide some insight into developing activity-based space science for the web and to discuss the lessons-learned from tailoring to a specific group of participants.
UR: http://www.lmsal.com/YPOP/solarweek
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 7500 SOLAR PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, AND ASTRONOMY
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting