An Interview with John Hygelund An interview with Mechanical Engineer John Hygelund. John designs, fabricates, and tests telescopes, instruments, and instrument systems.
An Interview with Yiannis Tsapras An interview with LCOGT research astronomer Yiannis Tsapras. Yiannis searches for planets orbiting distant stars using a method called microlensing.
An Interview with Matt Dubberley An interview with Mechanical Engineer Matt Dubberley about his work which covers structural analysis, thermodynamics, statics, motion control, dynamics, physics, vibrations, design and more.
An Interview with Rachel Haynes This week’s interview was with Rachel Haynes. The interview actually took place in late November, and since then Rachel has accepted employment with another local company and left LCOGT. Rachel worked here for over 5 years and we will miss her!
An Interview with Edward Gomez As a part of our education and outreach effort at LCOGT, and to give you a chance to get to know our staff a little better, we are starting a new interviews project. Every couple of weeks I will be interviewing a member of LCOGT's staff. We have wonderful people with a wide range of skills and from a variety of backgrounds.
CSTA Annual Conference Last weekend, October 22-24, was the California Science Teachers Association's annual conference in Sacramento. The conference featured 14 hours of workshops, two general sessions, six focus speakers, four field courses, 16 short courses, as well as keynote speakers Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the television show Mythbusters.
Star Party at Sedgwick Reserve On October 2nd, a group of 16 guests had an in-depth tour of LCOGT's Goleta office and workshop, while learning about LCOGT's mission and goals. They traveled in executive shuttles to Sedgwick Reserve, where they were welcomed by Sedgwick staff and volunteer docents, as well as astronomers and volunteers from LCOGT.
Goleta Students Use Faulkes Telescope and Win Fourth Place at State Science Fair The 59th annual California State Science Fair was held on May 17-18, 2010. This year 960 participants represented 394 schools throughout the state and competed for awards totaling over $50,000. Daniel Godinez and Caylin Canales took fourth place in the Junior Physics and Astronomy division. Daniel and Caylin with their teacher Kim Miller from Goleta Valley Junior High, observed the Monoceros R2 cluster with Faulkes Telescope South earlier this year.
Goleta Students Use Faulkes Telescope and Win Gold Medals at County Science Fair Tonight at the Santa Barbara County Science fair, Daniel Godinez, Caylin Canales and Rishika Singh all won gold medals for their science fair projects and will be going to the state science fair next month!
