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Team Hook

Goal of this team is to look for, and disseminate, successful and powerful outreach gems. Concentrating on those activities where you only have the attention of the public for a short time period; like public nights, star parties, Scout events, classroom visits, science fairs, booths, public talks, standing in line at the ball park...you get the idea. We will find ways to hook their interest and move them on to more long term teams...like the 20/20 team. We need innovative demonstration designers, artists, podcasters, bloggers, speakers, AND those who have the information which needs distilling and delivering.

Idea: Visual representation of an eclipsing binary

By justafew on September 19, 2009 - 3:09pm

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I was at the ASP meeting last week and the Kepler Mission had a fantastic, interactive display explaining transiting extrasolar planets which we can easily turn into eclipsing binaries OR a model of epsilon Aurigae. They had created a Lego Orrery with a central light source and a couple of orbiting planets. There was a small photocell connected to a computer and as you turned to Orrery crank you could see the light curves forming for the extrasolar transits.

Look here: http://kepler.nasa.gov/ed/lego.html

I have order the supplies and will have my students put it together and get back to you on modifications for eclipsing binaries and epsilon Aurigae.

Just a quick welcome to Team Hook

By justafew on September 18, 2009 - 6:47pm

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There was a great group of ideas that got started at the Chicago meeting orbiting around the idea of those quick Outreach moments. I would like to continue that here with the expectation that we can get people interested and moved on to other long term teams and create activities and ideas which everyone can steal for their own use.

It might be best to start of with posts in two formats:

Help needed: (example) I need some way to visually explain how stars form. You can chat and clarify within the post but once there is a great solution post it in the "idea to share" format

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Team Hook

Idea: Visual representation of an eclipsing binary

Just a quick welcome to Team Hook

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