Summary of Completed Outreach Activities during 2009

Jan 16 - Star-gazing, two slideshows & Public talk by Mary Putman: ''Feeding the Milky Way''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Adam Fuller, Nitza Santiago, Jess Werk, Erika Hamden, Andrew Brown, Taka Tanaka
2 Hours, 90 attendees for lecture, +10 for observing, +25 on College Walk

Jan 30 - Star-gazing, slideshow & Public talk by Taka Tanaka: ''Eavesdropping on Supermassive Black Holes''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Nitza Santiago, Destry Saul
2.5 Hours, 200 attendees for lecture, +40 for observing

Feb 13 - Star-gazing, slideshow & Public talk by Adam Fuller: ''Saturn's Rings From A To G''
Volunteers: Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Andrew Brown, Erika Hamden, Adam Fuller, Jess Werk, Johnny Ruan
2 Hours, 150 attendees for lecture and star-gazing, +50 on College Walk

Feb 18 - Tour of the observatory. 40 sixth grade students from ​VCS community school saw the workings of the domes, looked through telescopes, and got a 45 minute presentation on the motions of the heavens.
Volunteers: Joshua Schroeder, Destry Saul, Lia Corrales
1.5 Hours, 40 students.

Feb 27 - Slideshow & Public talk by Joe Patterson: ''Exploding Stars From Your Backyard''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Erika Hamden
2 Hours, 50 attendees

March 4 - Harlem Sidewalk Astronomy. Showed the Moon and Saturn from Powell Plaza.
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman
3 hours, 300 people.

Mar 6 - Star-gazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Ian McGreer: ''First Light in the Universe''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Josh Schroeder, Adam Fuller, Nitza Santiago, Jess Werk, Ian McGreer, Maria Pereira, Lia Corrales, Kyle Parfrey
2 hours, 80 attendees

Mar 7 - Family Astro with Light Pollution Theme
Volunteers: Neil Zimmerman, Maria Pereira, Lia Corrales, Duane Lee
2 hours, 25 children + parents

Mar 20 - Stargazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Sasha Hinkley: ''''Imaging New Planets from Here on Earth''
Volunteers: Duane Lee, Maria Pereira, Ian McGreer, Jess Werk, Nitza Santiago, Yuan Li, Andrew Brown, Neil Zimmerman
2 hours, 150 people

Mar 30 - Visiting Kindergarten class from Dalton; Asteroids, Comets and Meteor Theme; Intro Slideshow, Make-your-own crater activity, comet chef, and solar observation on the roof
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Robert Morehead, Duane Lee
1 hour, 20 students + 8 chaperones

Apr 3 - Public talk by Maureen Teyssier: ''Putting Hubble Images in Context: The Local Map of the Universe'', followed by observatory tours and slideshows
Volunteers: Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Andrew Brown, Adam Fuller, Kyle Parfrey
2 hours, 150 people

Apr 5 - 100 Hours of Astronomy, Telescopes on 125th St and Adam Clayton Powell Blvd
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Erika Hamden, Nitza Santiago, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder
2.5 hours, 350 people

Apr 17 - Stargazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Kyle Parfrey: ''Astrophysics at the LHC, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Microscopic Black Holes''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Andrew Brown, Erika Hamden, Adam Fuller, Joo Yoon, Lia Corrales, Christine Simpson, Maria Pereira
3 hours, 250 people

May 1 - Slideshow & Public talk by Antara Basu-Zych: ''The Violent Tendencies of Galaxies''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Robert Morehead, Josh Schroeder, Erika Hamden
2 hours, 70 people

May 12 - --CANCELLED-- Visiting Kindergarten group from Ella Baker School
Volunteers: Duane Lee, Andrew Brown, Lia Corrales, Maria Pereira
1 hour, 0 people

May 15 - Stargazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Jackie Faherty: ''The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Astronomy in the Media''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Josh Schroeder, Robert Morehead, Duane Lee, Adam Fuller, Lia Corrales, Destry Saul
2 hours, 70 people + 100 on College Walk

May 29 - Slideshow & Public talk by Jan Kratochvil: ''How Anyone Can Witness a Space Shuttle Launch''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Robert Morehead, Nitza Santiago, Josh Schroeder, Jess Werk
2 hours, 55 people

May 31 - Harlem Sidewalk Astronomy. Showed the Moon and Saturn from Powell Plaza
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Josh Schroeder, Kyle Parfrey, Johnny Ruan, Karista Koehler
1.5 hours, 150 people

Jun 12 - Slideshow & Public talk by David Hogg: ''What was there before the Big Bang? ''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Josh Schroeder, Andrew Brown, Yuan Li, Laura Vican
2 hours, 110 people

Jun 23 - ​Public talk by Janna Levin: ''Songs from Space: Black Holes and the Big Bang in Audio ''
Organized by the Amaldi Gravitational Wave Conference
1 hour, 375 people

Jun 25 - ​Screening of BLAST: The Movie and Q & A Session with the director and principle investigator ''
Organized by the Amaldi Gravitational Wave Conference
2 hour, 150 people

Jun 26 - Slideshow & Public talk by Nitza Santiago: ''¿Qué te pasó, pobre pequeño Plutón?''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Andrew Brown, Erika Hamden, Laura Vican, Josh Schroeder, Ximena Fernandez
2 hours, 55 people

Jul 9 - Star-gazing & Slideshow for Visiting Group of Teachers
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels
3 hours, 15 people

Jul 10 - Star-gazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Jason Kendall: ''Kepler Space Telescope: The Search is on for Earth-Sized Planets!''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Josh Schroeder, Andrew Brown, Geoff Banker, Christine Simpson, Emily Rauscher, Johnny Ruan, Laura Vican
2.5 hours, 130 people

July 24 - Slideshow & Public talk by Christine Simpson: ''Galactic Archaeology'' and Galileoscope workshop led by Andrew Brosn
Volunteers: Christine Simpson, Andrew Brown, Destry Saul, Duane Lee, Neil Zimmerman
2.5 hours, 90 people

July 25 - Family Astro (solar-themed)
Volunteers: Lia Corrales, Duane Lee, Andrew Brown, Neil Zimmerman
2 hours, 20 kids

Aug 7 - Observing on USS Intrepid for Girls Summer Camp
Volunteers: Andrew Brown, Duane Lee, Josh Schroeder, Arlin Crotts, Joanna Corby

Aug 14 - Star-gazing, Slideshow & Public talk by Andrew Brown: ''Teaching Old Stars New Tricks: The Cataclysmic Fate of Low-Mass Stars''
Volunteers: Josh Schroeder, Nitza Santiago, Duane Lee, Andrew Brown, Jess Werk, Johnny Ruan, Roban Kramer
2 hours, 200 people

Aug 28 - Slideshow & Public talk by Jessica Werk: ''Tales from the Multiverse: Infinite Alter Egos, Parallel Universes, and Other Disconcerting Astrophysical Predictions''
Volunteers: Cameron Hummels, Neil Zimmerman, Jess Werk, Andrew Brown, Jana Grcevich
2 hours, 125 people