Suzanne Jacoby, for NOAO Educational Outreach
The third annual workshop for middle and high school teachers on "The Use of Astronomy in Research Based Science Education (RBSE)" hosted 15 participants from around the country in Tucson and on Kitt Peak this past summer. A total of 41 teachers have been trained in this NSF-funded Teacher Enhancement Program to date. Recruitment is underway for our fourth summer workshop in 2000. Mentors were located for all teachers in the 1999 program; we are pleased to acknowledge these astronomers for their support:
Catherine Pilachowski (NOAO)
Shawn Cruzen (Columbus State)
William Keel (Alabama)
Jose L. Alonso (Arecibo)
Pamela Marcum (Texas Christian)
Heather Morrison (Case Western)
Mark Adams (McDonald)
Margaren Hanson (Cincinnati)
Deborah Golader (Pennsylvania)
Ted Williams (Rutgers)
Michael J. Wolff (SSI)
Daniel Boice (SRI)
Wayne Osborn (Central Michigan)
Glenn Williams (Central Michigan)
Tim Barker (Wheaton College)
A total of 22 telescope-nights were used in support of the RBSE Teacher Enhancement Program in the last quarter: eleven on the 0.9-m, four on the 4-m, and seven nights on the 2.1-m. Results of one of the three RBSE research projects, "Searching for Novae in Local Group Galaxies," will be presented as a poster paper at the Atlanta AAS Meeting by KPNO astronomer Travis Rector and Brenda Wolpa. Brenda is a chemistry teacher at Canyon Del Oro High School in Tucson who also works part-time for NOAO Educational Outreach. Our updated web pages at http://www.noao.edu/outreach/rbse/ contain additional information about the RBSE program.