This weekend, I was invited to participate in a Star Party at a local elementary school. The librarian there is amazing. She has a fairly large budget, and has purchased a few telescopes, and other astronomy related paraphernalia. She also contacted the University of Arizona to get support and she has contacts with local amateur astronomers. About once a month she organizes these events for the children and families that attend her school. I've been going for about three years now, alternating between running a telescope and running an activity that is related to Mars and my job. It's so much fun. The parents and kids have a blast, and hopefully learn something too. I get to interact with people and they ask some really tough questions as they don't always have the information and knowledge I take for granted. Sometimes they have more, and that makes the questions even more difficult.

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