CSO
participated Eighth Annual AstroDay 2009. 
CSO participated
eighth annual AstroDay
2009 on the May 2nd at the Prince
Kuhio Plaza. Our booth was located at one of the busiest spots in
the mall,
very close to the central stage of the day. This year, we had
mainly two projects
at the CSO booth: (1) Art project to make your own CSO rockets
and (2)
Radio telescope demonstration to understand how light or radio wave
from the
Universe is caught by a telescope. Also, we brought our spectrum
analyzer to explain
some of the technologies used at the radio band. Kids and
families who did our
activities gained the four different CSO trading cards, as part of the
56 trading
cards that Mauna Kea Observatories
Outreach Committee (MKOOC) created,
led by Kumiko Usuda at the Subaru Telescope.
The radio telescope, 1.2-m diameter parabolic radio dish, was
donated by the
Oceanic Time Warner Cable in Hilo. We are grateful for their warm
hearted
donation and their support for our public educational outreach
efforts. CSO
staff members, Diana, Steve, Ed, Brian, Richard, and Hiroko, and their
families,
Ryan, Suzanne, Ed, and Ray participated the exciting day at the CSO
booth.
Figure 1. CSO
booth looking from the front.
Figure 2.
A table for the CSO art project to make your own CSO rockets.
Figure 3. Kids
and families are making their own CSO rockets.
Figure 4.
Another table for the CSO art project to make their own CSO
rockets.
Figure 5. Steve
is explaining the family how a radio telescope collects radio wave from
the Universe.
Figure 6. More
people join the demonstration of the radio telescope.
Figure 7. Young
kids are trying out the demonstration by themselves.
Figure 8. A
young
kid is trying out the experiment with Brian. (Photo courtesy of
Gary Fujihara.)
Figure 9.
A lady smiling with her own CSO rocket.
Figure 10.
Another happy smile with her CSO rocket.
Figure
11. She made her CSO rocket for her mother as a gift for
the Mother's day. How sweet she is! It turned out that
she was in a class room that a CSO staff visited this year. Thank
you for stopping by at the CSO booth!
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