Public Outreach

Thirty-one outreach projects in 21 states are receiving mini-grants up to $5,000 to prepare underserved groups in the US for the 21 August 2017 solar eclipse.

Public libraries across the US will receive free solar-eclipse glasses and information packets, but they'll need help from local astronomers to make the best use of them.

Eclipse.aas.org will help prepare the country for the 21 August 2017 total eclipse of the Sun, and our small-grants program will fund activities aimed at engaging the public with the eclipse.

Join us at the 229th AAS meeting in Texas to learn what others are doing in anticipation of next August's coast-to-coast solar eclipse and to share information about your own plans with your peers.

We still have a few spaces left in our AAS 229 workshop on effective outreach for early-career scientists, and AGU is offering a communication workshop for space scientists at all levels in Washington, DC, on 31 October.

Our fifth annual AAS Astronomy Ambassadors workshop on effective outreach for early-career scientists will be held at the 229th AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in January. Applications are due by 17 October 2016.

Since 1999 this series of popular lectures at Foothill College in Los Altos, California, has featured noted astronomers explaining the latest celestial discoveries and ideas in everyday language.

We're looking for DC-area members to represent the Society and share the excitement of physics and astronomy with kids of all ages at the USASEF, 14-17 April 2016, in the Washington Convention Center.

AAS member Stefan Kautsch shares an op-ed piece he recently published in several Florida newspapers to explain to the public why what astronomers do is important.

Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2016 will convene in Medellín, Colombia, next 16-20 May. Abstracts for oral presentations, posters, and workshops are now welcome. Deadline: 25 January 2016.