McDonald Observatory, a research unit of The University of Texas at Austin, is one of the world’s leading centers for astronomical research, teaching, and public education and outreach. This institution will, in coordination with NASA, train teachers from regional school districts to integrate citizen science projects and curricula into their classroom programs. They will provide residential master teacher workshops at McDonald Observatory, smaller workshops at the Texas state science teachers’ conference, and work to help in pilot testing new activities, lesson plans, and materials for Citizen Science projects. These master teachers will also go back and train more teachers at their institutions, broadening the reach of this program.

The large telescope domes of McDonald Observatory. In the top left corner, the Hobby-Eberly Telecope dome sits atop Mount Fowlkes. In the foreground, the dome of the Otto Struve Telescope sits at left and the Harlan J. Smith Telescope at right, atop Mount Locke. (Photo by Marty Harris/McDonald Observatory)

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