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Elementary School - Grades 4-6
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Investigate constellations and some of the myths / stories behind them.
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Do the Planets Revolve Around the Earth or the Sun?
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What are Cosmic Rays?
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What are the phases of the moon
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Determine the number of stars that can be seen from your local area
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Investigate constellations and our solar system.
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The sun, stars, black holes and supernovas
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Research stars' birth, life, and death.
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Black holes and time
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Everything about Stars & Planets
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Middle School - Grades 7-9
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What is Dark Matter?
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Effects of Lunar Motion and Position upon the Birth and Death Rates of Human Beings
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Do the Planets Revolve Around the Earth or the Sun?
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Introduction to Nebulae
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Find out if Saturn's moons cause the gaps in Saturn's rings.
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What Are the Effects of Weather on Star Visibility?
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Discover how many of the brightest infrared-emitting objects in an infrared sky patch are familiar objects such as stars.
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Test the stellar parallax theory, a method used to determine the relative distance of stars, through a series of observations taken on a football field.
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Measure true noon time using the sundial principle
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Calculate the circumference of the Earth.
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Explore the deep space - stars and black holes
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The Formation, Evolution and Death of Stars
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Everything about Stars & Planets
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High School - Grades 10-12
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Research Radio Astronomy and Build an Amateur Radio Telescope
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A Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) diagram of blazar S5 0716+714 using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, ground based optical telescopes, and a radio telescope.
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter with LENS: A New Directionally Sensitive Low Energy WIMP Detector
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The Thermodynamics of the Rings of Saturn
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Simulation of terrestrial impact craters
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The Weird World of Planets in Binary Star Systems
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Adaptive Optics and Its Role in Stellar Scintillation
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Quantifying the Effect of Skyglow on the Visibility of Stars
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Analyze ultra-high energy cosmic ray showers and characterize their energies and apparent direction of origin.
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Build and demonstrate a sidereal pointer - an instrument that allows you to localize each celestial object in the night sky.
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Determine how distant is the moon?
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Investigate and use parallax to determine distances
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Explore the effect of the lunar phase on events on Earth - temperature and birth rates.
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The effects of the temperature of the universe on Black Holes as the universe ages.
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Investigate the Cosmological theory of the Big Bang
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Everything about Stars & Planets
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Useful Links
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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Astronomy Resources
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Solar System Resources
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Optics Resources
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Citation Guides, Style Manuals, Reference
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Safety Resources
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Astronomy Science Fair Books
    
    
    
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