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Europlanet Outreach Newsletter - Fall 2022
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Welcome to the Europlanet Outreach Newsletter for Fall 2022. In this issue:
Community news:
If you would like to share your news, resources, events, or any other outreach-related information with the group in the next newsletter, please email us!
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Updates from Europlanet Outreach
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Teacher and science communicators... we need you!
In recent years, the education and outreach teams in the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI) project, the Europlanet Society’s Outreach Working Group and the Europlanet Early Careers (EPEC) network have developed a number of resources to support teaching of science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM) subjects. Among these, we have created ready-to-use planetary science and astrobiology lessons and associated hands-on activities. As teachers, educators, and science engagement practitioners, we need your expertise and opinion on the most recent resources we have developed. We would also like to understand your interests and use of planetary science resources, and if/how your needs and practices have changed since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Find out about our teaching resources and help us improve the content we offer.
Please take this short survey (it's available in 10 languages).
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#InspiredByOtherWorlds is waiting for you!
The Europlanet art contest is still open! The invitation is for schools and space enthusiasts of all ages to get creative and share their artworks and performances inspired by other worlds in a contest called #InspiredByOtherWorlds and focused on the planetary "Interception"
Deadline December 15th. For more information please visit the dedicated webpage.
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EXPLORE Lunar Data Challenge
Today is the deadline for entering the free prize draw in the EXPLORE Lunar Data Challenge (win vouchers and a piece of lunar meteorite). However, the classroom challenge and resources remain, with new languages continuing to be added (currently available in French, Spanish, Italian): https://t.co/Usno3mASLU
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EPSC Outreach and EPSC Goes Live for Schools
The Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2022 was a fantastic forum for sharing outreach and education ideas and best practice. If you registered for the meeting, don't forget that you can watch recordings of the sessions and catch up on anything that you missed.
EPSC Goes Live for Schools, run for the first time as an in-person event, in collaboration with Lecturers Without Borders (LeWiBo), was also a great success, with 20 scientists going into six schools in and around Granada, and 40 schools participating online.
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Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement 2022
The 20 22 Europlanet Prize for Public Engagement has been awarded to Dr Kosmas Gazeas and the team behind the ‘Planets In Your Hand’ tactile exhibition.
‘Planets In Your Hand’ is an interactive set of models of planetary surfaces, constructed in portable square frames. The exhibition gives a multisensory impression of the wide variety of surface characteristics and environmental properties of the planets in our Solar System. Congratulations to Kosmas and the team!
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Europlanet Public Engagement Funding Scheme 2022
Making children curious about space and planetary sciences through play and puppet theatre is the idea conceived and developed by Katia Pinheiro and the team of “Journey to the Planets“, the winning proposal of this year’s Europlanet Funding Scheme for Public Engagement.
The project will start by producing a series of short movies with stories about the planets told by Bimbim’s team, an original and funny puppet theatre. The videos will come with illustrations and animations to better express the scientific content which, for now, will focus on a general overview of all Solar System planets, the Earth and Mars.
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ERIM Meeting 2023
After the great time spent at EPSC2022 our next appointment is for 19-23 June 2023 in Bratislava for the first Europlanet Research Infrastructure Meeting (ERIM), which will be the perfect occasion to see each other. The ERIM meeting will be hybrid and we will be co-hosting a number of workshops of diverse topics and aims. The EPSC next year will be jointly held with the DPS in San Antonio (Texas).
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Occultation of Mars by the Moon
On 7-8 December, the sky will amaze us with the occultation of Mars by the Moon. Several events spread across Europe and worldwide are planned.
In Italy there will be a dedicated live event by Il Cielo in salotto “Mars VS Moon” with telescope observations of Mars and the Moon, the celebration of the anniversary of Apollo missions and Q&A with scientists.
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Il Cielo in Salotto: the beautiful Solar eclipse of the year
The latest episode of EduINAF's "Il cielo in salotto" livestream took place on 25 October 2022. The main focus of the livestream was the beautiful solar eclipse. The event, with more than 80 thousand views, was a rich hour of telescope observations, outreach highlights, virtual reality and intriguing discussions. Thanks to the terrific participation by international partners through Time And Date with images of the event from several locations (Abu Dhabi, Norway, Pakistan). If you weren't able to see the live events, find them on EduINAF's YouTube Channel.
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