ATNF Outreach Workshop

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ATNF Outreach Workshop
Plans for the day

• Review current activities
• Discuss future plans
• Consider issues from ATNF-wide perspective

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Some possible outcomes

• More clearly stated outreach goals for all ATNF
• Coordination of outreach activities between the
  different sites

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ATNF Key Outreach Objectives

• Attract young people into science
• Raise the profile of astronomy/science in
  Australia
• Maintain/build good relations with local
  communities

Are these sufficient for what we want to achieve?
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Current PR activities
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Visitor Centre numbers
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2003 Web hits on Marsfield site 20
million Most accessed page ATNF News
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Visitor feedback from Marsfield Open Day 2001
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April 2003 Opening of the dish cafe
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May 2003 Transfer of a refurbished heliograph
dish to St Columba High School
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July 2003 IAU and Dover Heights Celebration
A copy of a 1951 8-element Yagi array
1951
2003
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Arrival of Dr Marie Bashir Governor of New South
Wales
Display panel
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July/August 2003 SEARFE on tour
Astronomy on the go Science in the
city (Australian Museum) Science in the
bush (Tamworth) SKA Geraldton
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October 2003 Narrabri Mopra Open Days
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New display panel for Narrabri Visitors Centre
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October 31 2003 Launch of Parkes Mars tracking