WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 WP5-SA3 Service activities for higher education and outreach Massimo Ramella and Riccardo Smareglia (INAF) Massimo Ramella, WPTL

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 WP5 Objectives Massimo Ramella, WPTL Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database Contact various international projects for the diffusion of astronomy in order to merge (part of) their knowledge base with our outreach interfaces

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Deliverable D5.3 (April 2010) Massimo Ramella, WPTL 1. Aladin Version Stellarium Version SimPlay 4. Use Cases with information on astronomical objects: The sky The stars The shape of galaxies The Pleiades open cluster Proper motion of the Barnard’s star Confirmation of an apparent supernova Distance of the Andromeda galaxy Distance of the Crab nebula Asteroids in the Solar System Planetary conjunctions 5. Website (AIDA WP5) dedicated to the distribution of our products to the public:

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 VO-days Massimo Ramella, WPTL 11 Sessions + 1 Videoconf with TNG All cities with INAF structures 6 tutors for each session (a team of 10 people involved) 288 registered, 242 attended, 181 filled our evaluation form

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 VO-days Massimo Ramella, WPTL First Day: 09: :35: Introduction ( R. Smareglia ) 09: :50: The Virtual Observatory: an Overview ( R.Smareglia ) 09: :15: A Virtual Tour of the Virtual Observatory ( P. Manzato) 10: :50 Use Case 1: Confirmation of a Supernova candidate ( G. Iafrate ) 11: :00 Use Case 2: Searching for Data available for the bright galaxy M51 ( M. Molinaro ) 13: :00 Lunch 14: :00 Use Case 2 : (continue) 15: :00 Use Case 3: Photometric redshifts with DaME ( O. Laurino ) 17: :00 AIDA WP5 outreach dissemination. ( G. Iafrate ) Second Day): 09: :30 Use Case 4: Data Extraction from Multidimensional Dataset ( A. Costa) 11: :00 Discussion / Feedback

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Latest developments (post D5.3) Massimo Ramella, WPTL 2 new use cases: 2 new use cases motion of planets and Kepler’s laws the sky for very young kidsvery young kids More translations of use casestranslations Website fully translated into germanWebsite

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Latest developments (post D5.3) Massimo Ramella, WPTL Efforts to bring astronomy in classrooms with AIDA/WP5 and to advertise our products in progress! France: workshop for teachers “La main a la pate” coming soon Germany: “Tagung der Astronomischen Gesellschaft” in Bonn: AIDAWP5 at the session on e-Learning (September, 13-17) Italy: INAF promotes AIDA/WP5 to nation-wide resource for teachers (4 major institutes/towns already active for the schoolyear )INAF

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 European Researchers’ Night 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPTL September 24: Yet another occasion to spread AIDA/WP5! Our “first generation” of AIDA/WP5 users introduces the VO concept and WP5 tools to classes of kids their age in Trieste. Trieste  Sunset at the North Pole  15Touch game: classify galaxies!

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Conclusion Massimo Ramella, WPTL A winning strategy at the base of the success of WP5 Choice of tools (Aladin and Stellarium) Combination of Use Cases and software/data Translation of tools and Use Cases in several languages Development of products in contact with test users Sustainability of resources Together with productive interactions among memebrs of a team both technically excellent and with a heartwarming human side.

WP 5 - SA3 service activities for higher education and outreach EuroVO-AIDA – Final review – 5 October 2010 Conclusion Massimo Ramella, WPTL Furthermore Contacts in person, presentations, and support essential for the establishment of primary points of diffusion Diffusion significantly enhanced by word-of-mouth process AIDA/WP5 a great resource for schools and public, hopefully still just a seed that will grow with a larger variety of topics/disciplines