June 2009

Cortney Sharp, of the Freeman Southwest Family YMCA in Neosho, Missouri, brought a group of children from the Summer Day Camp Program to visit the planetarium.  The children were between the ages of 5 and 12 years old.  Scott Barrows, a Space Center graduate student, spoke to them about proper motion and black holes.

Paula Brooks, a teacher in the The Scholar’s Program, brought two groups of students to the planetarium for demonstrations.  Their program is for gifted and talented students in the Fayetteville School District.  It is taught by teachers working on their Master’s degree in Gifted and Talented Education.  The students were from Root Elementary School in Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The curriculum for the classes focused on what professionals in the space field do and the tools used in the space industry.

May 2009

Dixie Androes, a Space Center graduate student, brought several groups of NorthWest Arkansas Community College (NWACC) astronomy students to the Space Center for a planetarium demonstration.  The students were members of Dixie’s astronomy classes at NWACC, where she is a faculty member.  There were 75 students that were broken down in to four groups for the demonstrations.

A group of high school students (photo at left) from Mountainburg High School, led by Jamie Noisewater, visited the planetarium for a demonstration.

Cub Scout Pack 107 from Springdale, Ark., also visited the Space Center for a planetarium demonstration.

April 2009

The Space Center recently hosted a group of 60 seventh graders from Lingle Middle School.  Kelly Howe, a Space Center graduate student, gave two talks to the students that focused on our place in the universe and the size of objects in our solar system and beyond.  She also spoke to them about how to get involved in science activities to help foster their interest in the science and math fields.

March 2009

A group of students from Turnbow Elementary School in Springdale, Arkansas, recently visited the Space Center for a planetarium demonstration.  The demonstrations showed the students constellations in the sky and proper motion.  The demonstrations were facilitated by members of the Planetarium Board.

February 2009

Several members of the Space Center Planetarium Board hosted a group of kids from the Helen Tyson Middle School Gifted and Talented  Program.  The middle school is located in Springdale, Arkansas.  Students learned about constellations, retrograde motion, and the annual movement of the stars.  The Planetarium Board is made up of Space Center graduate students. 

The students asked many engaging questions and were generally curious about concepts related to space and space exploration.  Thanks so much to our Planetarium Board for their hard work!

December 2008

The Space Center recently hosted over 400 sixth and seventh graders from Helen Tyson Middle School in Springdale, Arkansas.  The students came to campus for the day to experience what life would be like for a college student.  Along with a campus tour and a hands-on experience in the College of Engineering, the students listened to a short talk about space that was given by Rob Pilgrim, a Space Center graduate student.  The students got a chance to ask questions about space and experience what it was like to touch the Paragould meteorite.

December 2008

Dixie Androes, a Space Center graduate student and an instructor at NorthWest Arkansas Community College, recently brought her astronomy class to visit the planetarium at the Space Center.  The students learned about the position of objects in the sky using the planetarium.

November 2008

Julia Kennefick, a member of the Space Center and a faculty member in the department of Physics, recently hosted a Family Astronomy Evening titled “Moon Mission” for second and third grade students at Leverett Elementary School in Fayetteville.  The evening’s events included activities designed as part of the Astronomy Society of the Pacific’s Family Astro Project to get families working together to explore different properties of the Moon and its relation to Earth.  Students from the University of Arkansas Astronomy Society were present to work with the families.  They provided telescopes and binoculars for viewing the Moon and Jupiter and its moons.  Funding was provided by NASA and the Leverett PTO.  Prior to the event, Dr. Kennefick visited the Leverett second grade classes to discuss the phases of the Moon and the Earth-Moon-Sun system.

October 2008

High school students from one of the physics classes at Rogers Heritage High School in Rogers, Ark., recently visited the Space Center for a tour and a planetarium demonstration.  Space Center graduate students Kate Coleman, Adam Hughes, Jennifer Hanley, and Kelly Howe, planetarium board members, assisted with the group. 

The class was split into two groups and the students were shown the proper motion demonstration in the planetarium.  The graduate students also showed the students some of the meteorites at the Space Center.  The students asked many engaging questions and were fascinated with the research the Space Center is doing.

June 2008

Boy Scout Troop 525 from Bentonville, Arkansas, visited the Space Center.  The visit was facilitated by members of the planetarium board who are also graduate students at the Space Center.  They learned about different constellations, meteors and meteorites.  The also got to see a planetarium demonstration to learn about different objects in the sky.

April 2008

A troop of Girl Scouts and Brownies from Lowell, Ark., visited the Space Center.  The visit was facilitated by Adam Hughes, Scott Barrows and Kate Coleman, who are graduate students at the Space Center and members of the Space Center Planetarium Board. 

As part of the requirement for the space badge, they learned about different constellations, meteors and meteorites.  The also got to see a planetarium demonstration to learn about different objects in the sky.

June 2007

A group of high school students visited the Space Center on June 12 to learn about the Center research.  The students were part of the National Consortium of Specialized Secondary Schools for Mathematics, Science and Technology.  The annual Student Research Symposium is designed to involve students in research and to give students the opportunity to present their research in a conference setting.

July 2006

LifeSource International Kid's Life Summer Day Camp

We want to thank LifeSource for bring such a wonderful group of students to the Space Center!