Month: November 2014

Cloudy skies with some light rain greeted 13 visitors (9 children and 4 adults) from Al-Taqwa Islamic Secondary School for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Tuesday, November 11th, 2014, 6:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation “Big Bang” and fielded questions.

Cloudy skies and rain greeted 14 visitors (including 9 children and 5 adults) from Saunders Secondary School (Grade-9) for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Thursday, November 6th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Tony Martinez began with the activity “Kitchen Comet” explaining what a comet was and then making a comet with dry ice Read More …

Clear skies with some hazy clouds greeted 12 visitors (11 students and 1 teacher) from the London Central Secondary School Grade 9—11 classes for Exploring the Stars at the Cronyn Observatory, Wednesday, November 5th, 2014, 6:30 p.m. Graduate student Parshati Patel made the digital slide presentation “Galaxies” and then fielded questions.

Cloudy skies and rain greeted 44 visitors (including 29 children and 15 adults) from the homeschoolers group Kids Learning Connections to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, November 4th, 2014, 6:00 p.m. Graduate student Shannon Hicks made the digital slide presentation “Mars” and followed this with the activity “Crater Experiment”.