Sun-Earth Days
Louis [email protected] (science content/amateur astronomers)
Carolyn [email protected] (informal)
Troy [email protected] (social media)
Sun-Earth Days (SED) was developed in response to a need for a highly leveraged education framework to help the heliophysics missions tell their integrated and cross discipline stories to the general public, informal and formal education communities.Sun-Earth Days is an innovative, multi-mission, exemplary, and award-winning NASA Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) program that to date has touched over one billion people in 42 countries. Sun-Earth Day provides an established and now familiar venue for heliophysics missions to tell their stories of discovery through an integrated, cross-discipline, highly-leveraged, and proven program. From a small startup project in 2001 with an audience of 40,000, Sun-Earth Day has grown steadily in size, sophistication, and impact to include many networks of stakeholders such as education, science, and minority professional societies such as the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC), Challenger Centers, Girl Scouts of America (GSA), Aerospace Education Services Project (AESP), the Astronomical League, the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP), the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE), and many more. New and cutting edge technologies have been employed including Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, podcasting, YouTube, and remote instrumentation. State-of-the-art methods and strategies in E/PO have been included such as authentic research opportunities through real time access to NASA data, distance learning, themed storytelling, and hands-on student involvement. All of these activities are collected and promoted to specific audiences through the award winning Sun-Earth Days website.
NASA/GSFC Achievement Reward-2001,03,12
Honeywell Quarterly Team Award 2011
URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nasa-space-weather-media-viewer/id398687618?mt=8
Status: Completed
URL: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2013/multimedia/index.php
Status: Completed
URL: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2013/multimedia/transit_videos.php
Status: Completed
URL: http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2013/multimedia/vodcasts.php
Status: Completed
Building on the success of previous Sun-Earth Day celebrations, we engage people of all backgrounds and ages with the wonders of heliophysics science, discovery, and exploration in ways that are both tangible and meaningful to their lives.
- Increase and Sustain Youth and Public Engagement in STEM