Starry Nights @ SFU: December 2009 workshops our largest of the IYA!

Starry Nights @ SFU: Astro Grads!

Two of our December 2009 workshops were our largest of the IYA!

Summit Middle School & Rose des Vents &
Ross Road Elementary & the Mediated Learning Academy!

December 10 & 17 2009

For the last month of the 2009 International Year of Astronomy - the IYA - we went all out, holding 4 workshops for a total of 12 schools, several home-schooling groups, with over 600 kids and about 100 adult chaperons attending!

December also featured our two largest workshops of the IYA, with about 200 kids in each. Here are some pictures from those two largest workshops.

Needless to say, all this would have been impossible without the hard work of over 30 dedicated volunteers, many of whom helped out on more than one day! All told, almost 100 volunteers participated in our full year of IYA activties, and I am so very grateful to each and everyone of them. Please be sure to take a look at the complete list of our IYA volunteers! You can also read a short report on our IYA program.

In rough chronological order, for the four workshops in the month of December, the volunteers were (and I fervently hope that I haven't missed anyone!):

Jeff Rudd, David Lee, Sarah Johnson, Kathy Porter, Michelle Murvai, Leigh Cummings, Ciara Morgan-Feir, Shamil Hajee, Nabila Harjee, Ramin Nazarali, Grace Min, Dr. Levon Pogosian, Jun-Qi Guo, Yiwei Zhang, Shelby Aylen, Cameron Forde, Kristen Soo, Nabyl Merbough, Audrey Schumacher, Ron Jerome, Alireza Hojjati, Rasoul Narimani, Laleh Samii, Isaac Seo, Corey Huber, Wayne Lyons, Mohammad Reza Ghovanloo, Leigh Palmer, Scott Yang, Cristian Pogolsa, and Eva Derton!

What a great way to close out the IYA!

Starry-eyed
@ SFU since Nov. 2007