Current College Wide Planetarium Activities
MC College Activities
 Planetarium Shows for College Classes,
http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/13-14.html
 Learning Communities Linked Classes
o AS101 & PL201 “Does the Universe have a Philosophy?”
astrophilosophy,
http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/AstroPhilosophy.html
o AS101 & BI? “You are made of the Dust of Exploded Stars.”
Astrobiology,
http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/Astrobiology.html
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AS101 and AS102 as distance learning courses first using Blackboard and now
WebCT, http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/M_AS101_fall2003.html and
http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/M_AS102_fall2004.html
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Mentor to the Science Club for many years weekly meeting on Thursday
afternoon this semester, gone camping in the summer with them,
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/Science_Club/home.html
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Interdisciplinary Community discussions involving our college students like
“Faith in Science?”
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/FaithInScience/home.html and
“Navigating Uncertainty”
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/NavigatingUncertainties/home.html )
sponsored by the Science Club
Connections with MCPS and other K-12 schools
 Grade Specific Planetarium Shows, thousands visit every year,
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/k-8.htm
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Saturday Discovery and Art Explosion with Continuing Education
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/wdce/youth.html .
Summer Teacher Workshops, “Astronomy Across the Curriculum” with partners
at the University of Maryland, Goddard Space Flight Center, US Naval
Observatory, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington (these are very difficult
to organize and more difficult to fund via grants; 6 funded 5 funded for MC one
for SEU) http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/summer.html
Community Outreach
 Saturday Evening Public Planetarium Shows with Star Parties afterward when it
is clear, http://montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/ .
 Music/Laser Light Shows that involve community or student musicians that have
brief astronomy interludes between musical sets,
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/shows.html .
 Traveling talks for groups that can not come into the planetarium
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/planet/planet/travel.htm