Hawai’i Center for Advancing $ystemic Heliophysics Education (HI CA$HEd)

1. Hawai’i Center for Advancing $ystemic Heliophysics Education (HI CA$HEd) Elena Moise Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai’i, USA 22 septembrie 2010, Bucuresti

2. Who Are We? • A bunch of scientiests, physics teachers, post docs and graduate students eager to share their knowledge and experience • Some people in our group are the first ones from their families to get a university degree • Different personalities • We are familiar with the education systems in Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Romania, UK, US, Yemen

3. Ilia Bulgaria Katie US Nada Yemen Mary US Who Are We? Noe France Elena Romania Cooper US Carla Belgium Gabriel Romania

4. Hawai’i Center for Advancing $ystemic Heliophysics Education • HI CA$HEd operates under the umbrella of the Center for Computational Heliophysics in Hawai’i (C2H2) at the Institute for Astronomy • Our goal is to educate students, teachers, and the general public of Hawai’i about: • the Sun, interplanetary space, and most of the rest of the Universe are made up of plasma, and how this plasma interacts with, and how it is coupled to, electro-magnetic forces • the variability of the Sun in every wavelength, and the manner by which that variability manifests itself in the solar magnetic field, bulk plasma flow (the solar wind), and energetic particles • the harsh conditions in the space environment, which may pose significant risks for the journey of exploration. • Target group is middle and high school teachers and their students, especially females, Native Hawai’ians and those at-risk.

5. Education Outreach • Master Teachers • At least two per island • A 3-5 day retreat every year • Curriculum development: develop activities and pilot them in schools • Lab materials Scientists Master Teachers Teachers & Students

6. Education Outreach • Workshops for teachers and students • At least one per year on each island • Workshops at national level • American Association of Physics Teachers • Ali’I http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/new-epo.htm • Project mentoring • Hawai’i Student/Teacher Astronomy Research (HI STAR) participants http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/new-epo.htm Faulkes Telescope • Individual students • Adopt a school • One middle school and one high school • Schools in low-income areas • Workshop in the Pacific Islands (Federated State of Micronesia)

7. Public Outreach • Public lectures held in conjunction with the workshops. We believe that everyone should be exposed to heliophysics and its significance to their lives and use public and school libraries as venues to do this. • Heliophysics exhibits and activities are shared at annual events such as IfA’s Open House on Oahu, AstroDay in Hilo (Big Island), and Maui-IfA’s Open House. • Facebook account called "Hawaii Heliophysics".

8. Click here Public Outreach • Expanding the outreach section of the current research website of C2H2, http://c2h2.ifa.hawaii.edu

9. What Is Unique about HI CA$HEd? • Our research group, C2H2, spans a wide range of research starting from the solar photosphere all the way to the edge of the heliosphere, the heliopause. • C2H2 combines numerical modeling with observational data analysis. • Master Teachers represent the bridge between the scientists and the teachers & students. • Hawai’i is a special place for the observational astronomy: • Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) will be built on Haleakala, Maui island • Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will be built on Mauna Kea, Big Island

10. Mahalo = Thank you! HI CA$HEd project is funded by NASA

11. Faulkes Telecope • Telescop privat - cel mai mare telescop destinat educatiei

12. Beatrice Watson Parrent Postdoctoral Fellowship http://members.aas.org/JobReg/JobDetailPage.cfm?JobID=26699