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The Outreach Awards
The new League Outreach Award will afford individual Astronomy Outreach recognition. Many club/society members already do outreach, but no one organization recognizes the outreach efforts of the many, many individuals.
Requirements
Outreach Award
A minimum of five-2 hour (minimum each outreach) outreach events
Document each event:
Date, time (started and ended), location
What you did for the outreach
Estimate of the number of people attending
Stellar Outreach Award
In addition to the (basic) Outreach Award, the Stellar Outreach recipients will need an additional fifty hours (minimum) in outreach events
Again, document each event,
Date, time (started and ended), location
What you did for the outreach
Estimate of the number of people attending
The recipient will "report" on one of his/her outreach events; these reports can be used in The Reflector and elsewhere to overview what amateurs are doing in Outreach and share ideas
Master Outreach Award
In addition to the Outreach and Stellar Outreach Awards, the Master Outreach recipients will need an additional one hundred hours (minimum) in outreach events, As with the first two levels, document each event:
Date, time (started and ended), location
What you did for the outreach
Estimate of the number of people attending
The Master Outreach Award nominee will report on what seems to work best for their outreach efforts; this can be specific activities, locations, etc. Like with the Stellar Outreach Award, these reports can be used in The Reflector.
This structure of tiered recognition encourages the initial recipient to continue with his/her outreach efforts. As with all League Observing Clubs, the Astronomical League's Outreach Awards will be numbered. And as with other League Observing Clubs, all Outreach proposed awards would need to be certified by the local club/society president. Each successful individual would receive a certificate and pin after review by the League Outreach Club Chair.
A possible extension of the Outreach Observing Club and recognition will be an annual recognition of an individual or individuals for outstanding outreach at each year's National ALCon.
The Astronomical League's Outreach Awards chair will be Dr. Mike Reynolds. Mike's background includes 15 years in astronomy-science museums, ten years as a successful high school physics teacher, and five years as a college astronomy professor. He has just been appointed the Dean of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at Florida Community College (a 60,000 student state institution) He has written several astronomy books and articles, served two terms as the League's National Vice President, chaired two national Astronomical League conventions (including the highly-successful AstroCon 2004 in Berkeley, California), is on the Board of Directors of the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, a full member of the American Astronomical Society, and is already heavily involved in outreach through AstronomyOutreach.
Documentation for the Astronomical League's Outreach Awards should be sent to Mike as follows:
Dr. Mike Reynolds
Astronomical League Outreach Awards
604 11th Avenue North
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
astrogator90@comcast.net
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