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What is it?
Exploring the Universe
@ Your Library
The New Brunswick Free Public Library was awarded a grant by NASA
through the Initiative to Develop Education through Astronomy and Space
Science (IDEAS) Grant Program. With
this funding we have started the Exploring the Universe @ Your Library program. Exploring the Universe is a
hands-on, inquiry based science program for children. Robert Belvin, the
library’s director, and Drs. Ted Williams and Tad Pryor, professors in the
Physics and Astronomy Department of
Rutgers University, will lead our program to create educational, inquirybased activities that let students engage
as scientists.
NEW BRUNSWICK FREE
PUBLIC LIBRARY
For more information about the IDEAS
grant program, please visit:
<http://ideas.stsci.edu/ideas.shtml>
For more information contact Jessica Trujillo at:
60 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-745-5116 ext. 22
Fax: 732-846-0226
Email: [email protected]
http://www.lmxac.org/nbfpl/nasa/index.html
About the Exploring the
Universe Programs and the
Jr. Astronomers Club
Event Calendar
March 25 @ 1 PM, Family Exploration Day
April 6 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
Exploring the Universe @ Your
May 18 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
Library
May 25 @ 6:30 PM, Jr. Astronomers Club
For anyone in grades 3—6
Rutgers professors, Ted Williams and
Tad Pryor, will be leading the science
programs
The programs will all have a hands on
component
Each month we will explore a different
aspect of space science
A event for the whole family
We will have space related activities
and non-competitive games
Exploring the Universe @ Your Library.
<http://www.lmxac.org/nbfpl/nasa/index.html>
Liberty Science Center <http://www.lsc.org>
NASA Kids. <http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/>
July 15 @ 1 PM, Family Fun Day
August 3 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
October 5 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
October 26 @ 6:30 PM, Jr. Astronomers Club
November 2 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
December 7 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
ble scientists for our monthly science lec-
Jr. Astronomers Club
Cool Cosmos. <http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/>
June 1 @ 4 PM, Exploring the Universe
The scientists will also recruit other notatures and demonstrations
Cool Astronomy Websites and
Things To Do
For more information
Contact Jessica Trujillo at: 732.745.5116 x
22, email: [email protected].
To Register for any event
Call 732.745.5116 x 29 and leave your name
and contact information, visit a reference
desk in the library, or visit our website for a
registration form.
The Planetarium at Raritan Valley Community College.
<http://www.raritanval.edu/planetarium/>
Rutgers Astronomy: The Robert A. Schommer Astronomical Observatory.
<http://www.physics.rutgers.edu/ast/ast-serin.html>
Science News for Kids.
<http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/>