- Date: 2 Feb 2016
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- Categories: For Everyone, Images/Videos, Outreach
Gemini at Onizuka Day
Gemini Observatory and the local community celebrated the legacy of Big Island Astronaut Ellison Onizuka last Saturday, January 30th during the annual Onizuka Day event at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the NASA Challenger disaster that took the lives of the space shuttle astronauts.
Booths and Workshops
Families visited interactive booths and participated in hands on workshops to learn more about science and astronomy. The Public Information and Outreach (PIO) staff as well as Gemini Astronomers volunteered their time, leading workshops and manning the Gemini booth.
Astronomer Andreea Petric (left), leading an activity that models cosmic distances and time travel using Play-Doh.
Petric instructs children in making celestial bodies like the Earth, Moon, and Sun to model their relative sizes and distances from one another.
PIO staff Christine Copes (left) and Alexis Acohido at the Gemini booth sharing our Legacy Images.
PIO Intern Alexis Acohido sharing the Gemini Career Brochure with students.
Acohido walking a student through the Gemini Virtual Tour.
PIO staff Janice Harvey talking to a family about Gemini’s twin telescopes.
The Gemini Virtual Tour was very popular with visitors to the booth!
