Getting kids involved......

[firemouth]

I'm not sure how many of you get the kids involved with astronomy, but I bought the kids a goto scope, Meade DS2114 and my 3rd grader did a science demonstration on Orion and got a first place ribbon.....

here are some photos.....








What she really liked about Orion was the Mythological story about him , that he was easy to show people in the sky, and that she had seen the nebulas through the telescope. Good times.

[MistrBadgr]

That is wonderful.  We need more of that!

I have given talks to cub scouts a couple of times.

The most enjoyable time was getting out my 14.25 inch f/6.7 reflector in its new red tube.

I was doing some fine tuning after a rebuild and simply had it out in the driveway.

Before long, I had four neighborhood boys in about the third grade asking to look through it.

We had a time that evening.

Keep up the good work!

Bill Steen

[vomit]

Awesome.  Kids need more reality, and less video idiocy (TV, PC, and vid games).  It's tough to compete with those.  Looks like you have a winner.

Congrats!

[Philip Pugh]

I've done sunspot viewing with kids from a local primary school and I had some members of the local astronomical society join me in showing them the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn one evening. I've also done some outreach activities at my work.

[hargy]

that's fantastic!!!! Good for her!!!!  I have to twist my kids arm to get him to look for more than an hour. But my kid has the highest score on his video game.....lol

[Philip Pugh]

One thing that might be good for an audience is connecting a webcam to a laptop, rather than making them queue up to look through an eyepiece. You can always stack the results later.