Slide 1

E/PO Goals and Overview


	THEMIS E/PO is fully aligned with NASA OSS education goals:
		Enhance the quality of science, math and technology education for pre-college level
		Share the excitement of space science discoveries with the public
		Help create our 21^st century scientific and technical work force
	THEMIS team is committed to E/PO:
	Bester, Bonnell, Lin, Carlson, Russell
	and the PI Angelopoulos are
	involved in public talks and science validation (cont.)

E/PO Goals and Overview

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Formal Education

Formal Education Programs
Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS)



	UNIQUE opportunity for THEMIS to entice students about NASA SEC

	The network of the 10 teachers, students, at E/PO magnetometer sites together with other students who participate using the web and monitoring the magnetic activity is called the Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS).

	Schools will be selected by state-wide competition and will have the following selection criteria:
		Commitment of schools Ð acceptance of the program by the administration
		Longitudinal spread in each 10 states provide wide geographic coverage
		Local infrastructure- Electric Power, Internet Connection,
		Potential for reaching large community of students/teachers
		SiteÕs potential for discoveries Ð away from highways, large trucks, rural sites
	UCLA provides technical users manuals along with GMAG unit
		Will install 5 Magnetometers with computers in Summer Õ04 and 5 in Summer Õ05
		Will provide ground data processing, data access, archiving procedures, and data display on school computer.

Formal Education Programs
Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS)


	Astronomy CafŽ
		rewrites the users manual for school usage, including a description of the data display in appropriate language
		develops guides/materials aligned with NSES
		leverages IMAGEÕs MagNet with existing school networks
		participates in the GEONS teacher workshops
	The first GEONS workshop for these schools@UCB in Summer 2004 and second @SACNAS in Summer 2005
		Summer 2004: experimenting, testing, setting up a web-archive
		Summer 2005: regarding classroom experiences and revising the classroom resources
	Additional GBOs to E/PO sites (cont..)

Formal Education Programs
Geomagnetic Event Observation Network by Students (GEONS)


	New three Ground Based Observatory sites in Alaska containing an All-Sky camera, a magnetometer, and a computer.

	AK teachers will be part of the both the GBO science team and the E/PO GEONS team

	Mission GBO science team is funding this addition to E/PO

INFORMAL EDUCATION

Reaching Underserved Groups


	Chicano and Native-American Teachers at Tribal Colleges/ High Schools as Ground Based Magnetometer sites (GEONS)
		MT, SD, ND, NV

	Tap into SACNAS Teacher Workshops - Field-test THEMIS materials w/ teachers in El Paso, TX provide feedback ( Prof. Lopez)

	National Teacher Professional Workshops

	Rural Teachers reached through GEMS site in Nevada, launched through THEMIS E/PO

Dissemination


	SACNAS Partnership (Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans)

	Leveraging from SECEF, IMAGE and FAST E/PO programs

	8 Space Grant Consortia and their affiliates (113 institutions)

	Student Observation Network (S.O.N.) of SECEF would like to include our program.
		The S.O.N. program guides students through tracking solar storms from start to finish.
		They need GM and GBO data!!

	NASA Broker/Facilitators and other National Networks

	NSTA-National, Regional and Local Meetings/Workshops

Slide 13

The organizational structure of the E/PO effort

UCB E/PO HERITAGE

Summary and Conclusion