LPL Outreach Update

LPL Outreach Update

by Shane Stone
The Spring 2018 semester was a very busy one for those involved in departmental outreach in the southern Arizona community. The graduate students and members of the department staff participated in outreach events at many local schools all over Tucson, Sahuarita, and Vail, including SARSEF Future Innovators' Night at the Tucson Convention Center and a STEM Night at a recent Wildcats baseball game. Graduate students again this semester helped to organize monthly Space Drafts science talks at Borderlands Brewery, an event which will celebrate its four-year anniversary in June; several students were also speakers. Our largest events of the Spring were the Tucson Festival of Books, where graduate students, as well as department staff, including Dolores Hill and Maria Schuchardt, interacted with an estimated 600 festival goers, and Connect2STEM at the UA College of Medicine Phoenix, where we reached about 1000 attendees.
Dolores Hill with a model of Bennu at the Tucson Festival of Books.