Category: Outreach & Education

Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, Our Solar System, before 43 visitors (27 children and 16 adults) from the Spark / Brownie, Girl Guides Unit in Thorndale, at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, April 25th, 6:00 p.m. This was followed by questions.

Hazy clouds greeted 25 visitors (14 children and 11 adults) from the Our Lady of Lourdes School (Delaware) Grade-6 class, to the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars on Tuesday, April 24th, 7:00 p.m. Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, The Lives of Galaxies, and this was followed by questions. Tyler then Read More …

Graduate student Emily McCullough made the digital slide presentation, Our Messy Solar System, before 45 visitors (30 children and 15 adults) from Lord Roberts Public School at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Thursday, April 19th, 7:00 p.m. The adults included parents and 2 teachers and the children included grades 5 and 6 and Read More …

Graduate student Tyler Desjardins made the digital slide presentation, The Scout / Guide Astronomy Badge, before 33 visitors (24 children and 9 adults) from Exeter Guiding at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Wednesday, April 18th, 7:00 p.m.

Graduate student Emily McCullough made the digital slide presentation, Exploring the Universe with Telescopes, before 53 visitors (48 children and 5 adults) from Mother Teresa Secondary School at the Cronyn Observatory for Exploring the Stars, Tuesday, April 17th, 7:00 p.m. The group was mostly grade-9 students plus a select few from the grade 12 Space Read More …