Three Grants Awarded in Colorado

SARA member, Jim Moravec, works with three schools in Colorado and he had students from each of these schools write a grant request. The three schools are part of a collaborative team doing applied research and outreach programs in astronomy under Moravec’s guidance. Wendy West of North High School will be receiving an Itty Bitty Telescope (IBT) and plans to use the IBT in outreach programs at inner-city schools in Denver, CO. She is anxious to do experiments and comparisons between off-site, quiet zones versus in-city data. Jared Lemons of Smedley Freshman Academy in Arvada, CO requested a Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance (SID) monitor which he hopes to use to compare solar activity with the Radio Jove that went to Michael Christou of the Community College of Denver. The two students along with their classmates hope to take observations and compare these to the NOAA Solar weather data. The three students in Colorado plan to leave their projects with Moravec so he can continue to teach students about radio astronomy and applied research.