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Education & Public Outreach

SOFIA Education and Public Outreach is geared for people involved in science education such as teachers, museum or planetarium workers, youth or community organization workers and volunteers, scientists doing outreach education, or journalists writing about science education. Here you will find ways to keep abreast on the SOFIA education program, information on workshops, presentations and other educational events, reviews of some of the programs being planned, and resources for space science and astronomy education web sites.

SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors Program

Airborne Astronomy Ambassador (AAA) Program Request for Proposals

SOFIA and multi-wavelength astronomy

Slide sets presented at the December, 2011 National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) western regional conference in Seattle.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Multi-wavelength astronomy

SOFIA and Infrared Astronomy

SOFIA, cosmic evolution, and organics in space

Slide sets presented at the 2011 October California Science Teachers Association in the 10/21 SOFIA Field Course and the 10/22 SOFIA & Cosmic Evolution workshop.

Infrared image of Earth from space (1 MB, pdf)

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