CAN-YES project
Scientists
Teachers
Dylan
Look at the competencies and connect it with the big ideas
Lauren Hudson
Not available during the summer, review the project in September?
There can be a large demand for francophone outreach, has not been done
Mary Beth at the CFHT
Meeting with her on Thursday, June 12, at 12.30 Victoria time
Graduate students
Mike Chen, happy to contribute and do videos
Clare Higgs, happy to contribute too, gone to the UK during the fall
Joanna Woo
Gone during that period, also does not do planetary stuff
HAA
JJ Kavelaars
Awesome project, happy to contribute, what material from OSSOS can we use
Sam Lawler
Happy to help with phone interviews on OSSOS and planetary physics
Michele Bannister
Happy to hear more and potentially be involved
JCMT, Hawaii
Large involvment of the JCMT in Hawaii
Q and A, either in control room or base camp, with videos and photos
People
Steve Mairs
Callie Matulonis
Given dates a coordinate with scientists, gone until July 18th
Can do the first, gone from June 26 to August 9
Alexis-Ann Acohido
Virtual tour of Gemini
Mailani Neal, Harriet Parsons
Legend
Black = most promising
Revisit the project with her in early September
Kids
Joshua - in Manitoba
Delighted to be part of the program, and wants to know how he can contribute
Julie Bolduc-Duval, Discover the Universe
Contacted for collaboration of kids, no answer yet
Erik Rosolowski, in Alberta
Asked Mike Chen to send him an email
TELUS Spark application
Haven't heard back
Mike Jensen and Scott Young, Manitoba Planetarium
Mike Jensen is out for the month,
Sott Young is unavailable until the 16th
Brian Anderson and Pauline Finn, TELUS Science World
Camps pretty much finalised, but happy to hear about our program
Suggested the Space Center in Vancouver, will send us contacts
Summer camps of 20-25 kids, week long activities
Call on Wednesday 12.30: Will check the schedule and get back to us
Manitoba CanU
Chat on Wednesday, June 11, 2.15pm
Touch base the week of the 16th
First event on August 1st, send pre-conference material by July 23rd
Resources
NASA
Imagine the Universe: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Space Place: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/
Vancouver Space Center Planetarium
Curriculum connections: http://www.spacecentre.ca/node/35
Skype a Scientist
Zooniverse
Galaxy recognition: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
Citizen Science: https://science.nasa.gov/citizenscientists
Let's talk science
Set of activities: http://www.letstalkscience.ca/Resources/Activities-Try-These
Discover the Universe
Observation activities: http://www.discovertheuniverse.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/LookingUp.pdf
Available, and willing to participate
Can talk about OSSOS survey and astrophysics
Has activities ready to be deployed to kids
He sent an email, and we are waiting to hear back from Erik
Waiting to hear back from
Red = Need to answer
Got back to him with more precision asking to meet up. Waiting to hear back
Science Venture/Actua
Contacted to brainstorm activities
Science Venture/Actua
Contacted to brainstorm activities
The program is inactive during the summer, but they will gadly participate during the fall. They start first week of September
Erik connected us with
sent email to U of A observatory (stars@alberta.ca)
sent email to Alberta Physics Teachers Association for educators (iisaac@ualberta.ca)
We touched base with an update on our program, i.e. we have the CFHT and the JCMT
He contacted the Space center in Van and summer camps. Waiting to hear back from those
Sent email, waiting to hear back from them
Allison Moore, event coordinator at ArtsVest, Alberta: http://www.artsvest.com/artsvest-alberta/
sent a Fb message, waiting to hear back from
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Sent an email asking for outreach educational material
Received some gifs and other resources, although not much exists for OSSOS.
YMCA Vancouver
Call head office at: 604-681-9622, from 8.30 to 16.30
YMCA Calgary
Called the general office (403-237-9622), left a message, waiting to hear back
Called the general office, left a message, waiting to hear back
Sharon Morsink answered: interesting project, and would like to be called back for more information
Need to call back at 587-920-4874
City of Calgary, 311
Nick Gonsalvez called back. We send him information about our program, and he will circulate it to schools and other programs. However, in July-August will be too short of a notice, most programs are established already. The program will take about 6-8 months to plan
Sent information about our program
Waiting to see if anyone will be interested.
We called Sharon Morsink. She is not directly involved with coordinating kids, but she can talk to the organisers of the summer camps on campus.
Curriculum
Solar System and Planets
Activities
Games
Reading
Videos/Images
Extent of the Solar System: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/oort-cloud/en/
Images of the Solar System: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gallery-solar-system/en/
Explore the Solar System Game: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/solar-system-explorer/en/
Formation of the Solar System: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/solar-system-formation/en/
Gifs from Michele:
Citizen science
Planet 9 searches: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/marckuchner/backyard-worlds-planet-9
Search Exoplanets: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/ianc2/exoplanet-explorers
Describing meteorites: http://www.spacegrant.hawaii.edu/class_acts/EdibleRocks.html
Other planets: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/all-about-jupiter/en/
MacMillan Space Centre
Called and sent an email to marketing@spacecentre.ca to ask about collaboration. Waiting to hear back
Let's Talk Science Alberta
Sent email to Regina Sinelnikov and Caley Craven
interviews
Michele Bannister, W.Fraser.
Spark Interactive Presentations and Resources
Username: nannau@observatoryhill.org
Password: 19Plaskett18
Calling Julie on Wednesday July 25th at 11am Pacific.
They had a chance to look at the material. They liked it, but would have preferred more interactive tools, like more quizzes and answers to the quizzes
Joefy Huang (through Sharon Morsink) is coordinator at DiscoverE, and is asking about the possibility of mentoring.
We're need to get back and ask what kind of mentoring.
Forwarded emails
Lisa McIntosh replied with interest. They run events from July 23rd to August 29th
Waiting to hear back
They replied with interest, but no dates.
We responded, waiting to hear back
Tracy Ross replied, while including the contact of Maureen Bourke.
Sent an email
We are going to have a meeting with them on Friday : 11.30 to 12.30
Cody Steinke runs summer camps on the U of A campus, possibility August 7 - 10.
Connected: tentative event on August 9th, and test call the day before
Events
CanU - CFHT (Mary Beth)
Wednesday, August 1st, 11.30am - 12.30pm (Victoria time)
Test call: Monday, July 30th, 1.45pm (Victoria time)
DiscoverE - JCMT (Harriet Parsons)
Friday, August 3rd, 11.30 - 12.30 (Victoria time)
Test call: Wednesday, August 1st, 9am (Victoria time)
Everything worked well!
waiting to hear back
UofA Summer Camps (Cody Steinke)
Test call: Tuesday, August 7th, 1.30pm (Victoria time)
Everything worked well!
Thursday, August 9th, 12.15 (Victoria time)
Reference Letters
Scientist
Educator
OSSOS
CFHT
JCMT
Michael Harder
CanU
DiscoverE
UofA Faculty of Science Summer Camps
Steve Mairs, Harriet Parsons
Working on it
Sam Lawler, JJ kavelaars, Michele Bannister
Working on it
Mary Beth Laychak
Haven't heard back from
Joefy
Received the letter
Working on it
Janell Joyce
Working on it
Cody Steinke
Haven't heard back from
Henry NGO
Very interested in participating, particularly with Kepler related stuff.
Once Kepler pre-conference material is created, we should contact him.
Sent a follow-up email - looking for future collaboration opportunities.