A few board members volunteered for a school assembly at St. Raymond Catholic Elementary School, Menlo Park. It’s also where Board Member Kimberly Alger works. Vice President Jason Zaman and Board Member Chanan Greenberg are the other members that volunteered for this event.
Chanan began with the “Size of the Universe” presentation that covers comparable sizes and distances of the Earth and the Moon, the planets and the Sun, other stars and galaxies with the Sun. The school’s fifth through eighth-grade, around 100 children, attended. Then they moved outside to view through Chanan’s two telescopes and one of Jason’s.
Part of Chanan’s presentation also included, “Instructions on Using a Telescope.”Rule #1: Don’t touch telescope. All board members impressed us all when they informed us that not a single child touched any of the telescopes!
All enjoyed solar observing.