Astronomy Club
Below are a few of my ideas about what we can do in the club. This list is by no means exhaustive, and I truly want the students to run the club. This is a student club, not my club.
Update the PV Student Handbook for extracurricular activities and advertise the club to get more students involved
T-shirts!!!!
Learn about telescopes, observing the night sky, and the motions of astronomical objects
Learn some basic astronomy concepts, about current experiments in astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics
Go and do some real observing
Go to Bettendorf High School and view a planetarium show
Go to Augustana and listen to the public lectures, view the planetarium shows, or use the observatory
Purchase our own telescope or build our own telescope
Go to Fermilab in Aurora for a tour of the particle accelerator and neutrino detector
Host guest lectures and engage in discussion topics
Should we move forward with particle physics and cosmology research? We don't really have a purpose to do this research other than furthering our understanding of the universe. The research also occasionally produces some useful technology. Is it worth the cost, both human and monetary?
Projects
Solar panels on PV high school?
City use solar panels similar to what Cedar Falls did? Cedar Falls Simple Solar