United States Air Force Academy awarded 2014 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
OCT 01, 2014
United States Air Force Academy awarded 2014 Marsh W. White Outreach Award
Zone and Chapter: United States Air Force Academy
Project
Project Name: Scoping Out Astronomy!
Project Leaders: Thomas Dickinson, Dan Cook, & Major Matthew Spidell
Chapter Advisors: LtCol Christian Wohlwend
Project Description: USAFA cadets and SPS members currently host hundreds of young students per year at our observatory tours. We plan to significantly augment these tours by adding a station where students will build simple telescopes from two convex lenses and a cardboard tube that they may keep at the end of the evening.
Project Media:
Project Proposal (.pdf, 537 kb) Final Report (.pdf, 466 kb)