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Talk - Radio Astronomy: A Work Experience Program
Emma Barnett
Victorian Space Science Education Centre
VSSEC has been operating Radio Astronomy programs for secondary school students since 2020. They have been delivered in many forms: online, in-person outreach, onsite at VSSEC, and most successfully as a week-long work experience program. This talk will explore how the program operates, as well as the successes and challenges of delivering highly scientific astrophysics content to secondary school students.
The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.
