20 PRESS EVENTS

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PRESS EVENTS AND RESULTS July 1, 2004 January
21, 2005
20 PRESS EVENTS -Press Conference 1 press
conference at Jan. AAS -12 Press Releases -7
Image Releases
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PRESS EVENTS AND RESULTS (cont.) July 1, 2004
January 21, 2005
PRESS RESULTS -103 Print Stories
including Washington Post, New York Times (3)
and USA Today (3) -55 Broadcast Stories
including Today Show -260 Web Stories
-Other - Implemented Eureka Alert, the AAAS
on-line press distribution system, to further
distribute Chandra press releases. -
Upgraded hardware/software to accommodate NASA TV
upgrade to telestreaming.
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CHANDRA SCIENCE RESULTS USED in OUTREACH

• Prepared Monthly Science Highlight for NASA HQ,
  MSFC
• 7 Astronomy Picture of the Day, plus 16 reference
  links to Chandra Public Web site
• -15 HEASARC Picture of the Week
• 3 Space.com Image of the Day
• Monthly updates of 2-3 features to NASA Portal
  Smithsonian Institution Research Portal, based on
  new monthly press and image releases.
• 2 NASA Portal special "banners" (Daily Discovery,
  Week in Review) for CAS A, 3C58. 2 Smithsonian
  Portal special banners for Cas A/Fifth
  anniversary, MS 0735.67421.
• Monthly updates of 2-3 features to ViewSpace for
  "Celestial Update" feature (120 sites)

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CHANDRA SCIENCE RESULTS USED in OUTREACH (cont.)

• -2 Chandra Chronicle articles
• 15 Chandra Digests (electronic newsletter)
• 27 permissions for image, video and content use
  Examples Princeton U. Press book of Chandra
  images (Kim Weaver), The History Channel,
  Discovery Channel, McGraw Hill textbook,
  international Atlas of the Universe (UK)
• 69 Requests for Chandra materials including
  Challenger Center (VA), U Nebraska, Whipple Obs,
  Museum of Natural History (RI), physics program
  at The Citadel, Ft. Worth Museum of Science (TX)
• -1 additional citation in PSIGate, an on-line,
  peer-reviewed reference site for the physcial
  sciences

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EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

• 23 Teacher Enrichment and Professional Educator
• Development Workshops
• In collaboration with Wright Center for Science
  Education,
• 3 workshops for 58 teachers, June 23-July 2, 2004
• 2 workshops, co-sponsored with National Science
  Olympiad
• reaching 96 middle and high school teachers in
  Michigan (July 7) and Wisconsin (July 22)
• 6 sessions at National Science Teacher
  Association (NSTA)
• regional meeting, Indiannapolis reaching 254
  teachers
• 3 sessions at NSTA regional meeting, Seattle,
  reaching 199
• teachers
• 7 sessions at NSTA regional meeting, Richmond,
  reaching 190
• teachers
• 1 day-long workshop at AAPT winter meeting
  (Albuquerque, Jan.
• 8) reaching 10 teachers
• 1 workshop at Wyoming Science Teacher's
  Association reaching
• 42 teachers

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EDUCATION ACTIVITIES (cont.)

• Co-Sponsor Rutgers Summer Astrophysics Institute
  for 30 high school students, 6 pre-service
  education students and 8 teachers.
• Other Education
• - Scientists
• H. Tananbaum presented Dean Lecture on Chandra
  at Morrision Planetarium, (San Francisco)
• J. Vrtilek talked to 4th 8th graders,
  Cambridge, MA
• - Chandra Educator and Resource Agents
• 4 talks to science and planetarium groups
• Jan. AAS presentations
• -Presented poster paper, and 4-day demo at
  "Gadgets and
• Gizmos" special session on software and
  activities using
• Chandra data in the classroom.

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EDUCATION and PUBLIC OUTREACH PEER REVIEW, Cycle 6

• Held in Cambridge, MA Oct. 20-22, 2004
• 5 member panel representing science, education,
  museum, Forum, and NASA mission and management
  perspectives
• 10 Proposals received and reviewed, 4
  individual, 6 institutional involving 24
  scientists
• One individual proposal and 5 institutional
  proposals selected for funding, allocating
  198,684 out of 200K available

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EDUCATION and PUBLIC OUTREACH PEER REVIEW, Cycle 6
FUNDED PROPOSALS       Individual 1. Building
Interest in Science Among Middle School-Age Girls
Using Big Explosions and Strong Gravity
(collaboration with Girl Scout Council)
Science PI Dr. Ann Hornschemeier (JHU/GSFC)
       Institutional 2. The Chandra
Astrophysics Institute (classroom research for
underserved gifted)     Science PI Dr.
Frederick Baganoff (MIT) 3. Chandra
After-School Astronomy Project (after school
program for underserved minority population)   
Science PI Prof. Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)
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EDUCATION and PUBLIC OUTREACH PEER REVIEW, Cycle 6
FUNDED PROPOSALS (cont.) 4. Does Dark Matter
Really Exist? (multi-media resources for product
developers)    Science PI Dr. Megan Donahue
(MSU) 5. Tenth Annual Penn State In-Service
Workshops    Science PI Prof. Eric Feigleson
(PSU) 6. Stellar Evolution Planetarium Show at
the Science Museum of Virginia    Science PI
Gregory Sivakof (UVA)
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RESOURCES for OUTREACH EDUCATION
http//chandra.harvard.edu/edu/update.html
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CHANDRA BOOTH UPGRADE