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AstroDay featured several engaging demonstrations and activities for the public, which certainly reinforced a "shared learning experience" for the entire family. The images here hope to give you an idea of the diversity and creativity of our AstroDay ohana (family).

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Kelii Noda, IRTF student employee helps prepare Infrared portraits for a "hot" crowd InfraRed (IR) portraits were taken, printed and given to folks to take home and admire UH Institute for Astronomy (IfA) graduate students helping to demonstrate human heat signature picked up by an infrared camera
A youngster immerses a flower into a vessel of liquid nitrogen... and proceeds to crack it into little pieces UH IfA engineers Alan Ryan and Ed Sousa capture the attention of a neverending crowd of interested onlookers
Interactive Liquid Nitrogen demonstration where youngsters get a chance to break a flower or watch a ping pong ball go zipping across a pan
Liquid Nitrogen demonstrations were held continuously all day to crowds like this. NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility (IRTF) staff who created and set up the martian landscape for the MER rover challenge Youngsters were challenged to drive the rover by viewing only a video output from a tiltable camera mounted on the mast
"I'm getting dizzy..."
Youngsters could win prizes by finding targets on Mars, like water (a hidden bottle of water) The Maunakea Exploration Rover (MER) challenge: find targets on Mars by driving a rover using only video from the rover IRTF Telescope facility day crew Maury McOuat checking out the Mars landscape before the start of AstroDay
IRTF astronomer Bobby Bus and grad student Mike Connelley provided real-time access to data collected from Mauna Kea "Ya wanna observe what?" People could interact with telescope operators on the summit, and take a snap of Venus, print it out and take it home
Maunakea Exploration Rover (MER) - Challenge to find targets like water on a simulated martian landscape
Bobby Bus at the controls The UH Astronomy Club set up a virtual scale solar system within the mall, and created a Stamp Rally... ...and challenged youngsters to find the planets and collect associated Stamps from each one. Collect them all and win a prize!
Each planet "station" had a model of the planet and information about it Youngsters could also "weigh" themselves on each to see what their mass would be on each planet...Cool! The UH Hilo Astronomy Club had several interactive displays and exhibits, including this one demonstrating angular momentum
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