Astronomy education with the

world’s largest radio telescope

@matisidro

Deputy Comms Manager 6/10/15

Visuals – flyovers

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Visuals – Amazing Facts

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Visuals - infographics

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Visuals - animations

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Fun stuff

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• Your Future, Your Ambition– Annual hands-on outreach event

– 800 kids from minority backgrounds

• Amazed by Science Festival– Week-long regional festival

• Meet the Expert sessions

• #SharedSky indigenous art exhibition– 15,000 people including 5,000 children

• Permanent SKA exhibition area at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre

– Seen by 30,000 children a year

Educational events at SKA HQ

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• Profile engineers, scientists, etc. involved in the SKA

• Spokespeople for SKA– Speakers at SKA outreach

events

– Role models for young people

– Promote diversity

Initiatives - SKA People

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• 1 year programme funded by RAEng

• £27,000

• Develop outreach material on SKA’s

engineering w. the help of SKA engineers

– To be implemented at Jodrell Bank and made

available to educators around the world

Initiatives - Outreach development

programme

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• Planetarium show

• App

• Tech:

– 3D printing

– Touch screens

– Augmented reality

– Virtual reality

In the next few years…

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• Should we do education in-house?

• Process: How? What to do?

• Target: What audience to focus on?

• Delivery: How to maximise reach?

Challenges

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Thank you!