THEMIS and ARTEMIS Education and Public Outreach Laura Peticolas UC Berkeley

Goals Nationally, middle and high school science teachers use THEMIS and ARTEMIS as a ‘hook’ to provide context to magnetism and space science Middle and high school science teachers understand the ‘story’ of the Sun’s influence on Earth’s and the Moon’s magnetic fields. Students of the above teachers are inspired to continue towards a science, technology, engineering, or math career. Amateur astronomers are inspired to follow the science of THEMIS and ARTEMIS and share it with the public.

Programs to meet the goals Develop a Heliophysics Educator Ambassador program with other NASA education and public outreach programs that support teachers from over 12 states Work with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific’s Night Sky Network of amateur astronomers as well as NASA amateur astronomer networks and THEMIS/ARTEMIS scientists to provide lectures and hand-outs to the amateur astronomers.

Heliophysics Educator Ambassador (HEA) Program Train two sets of HEA teachers (2009 and 2010) to be teacher leaders and train other teachers on Heliophysics science and mission discoveries (~40 HEA teachers total). Financially support the teachers to lead workshops in their states (x15 per HEA teacher each year). THEMIS, ARTEMIS, AIM, TIMED, IBEX, STEREO, and RHESSI are all part of this effort.