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October 14, 2004: A magnetometer was installed outside the elementary school near the Red Cloud High School in Pine Ridge, SD. An article about this installation can be found here.
October 12, 2004: A magnetometer was installed at the Hot Springs High School in Hot Springs, MT
October 4-5, 2004: Magnetometer is installed at the Petersburg City Schools in
Petersburg, AK with science teacher Vic Trautman.
August 27, 2004: Magnetometer is installed at the Western Nevada Community College observatory in Carson City, NV with Professor Robert Collier, Assistant Gerald Brandvold, and Carson Middle School science teacher, Terry Parent. Articles about the installation can be found here and here. A slide show can be viewed here.
July 12-14, 2004: The education group held its first teacher's workshop with the teachers who will be housing magnetometers at their schools and will be part of the Geomagnetic Event Observations Network by Students (GEONS) program. This professional development workshop was held in Berkeley at University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. Teachers were taught about magnetometers and magnetism as well as some pedagogy. The education group learned about the issues that the GEONS schools face, how the THEMIS program will fit into their classroom, and what the teachers need. Learn more about these teachers at our GEONS School pages.
June, 2004: The THEMIS project passed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and engineers are now building instruments and the spacecraft contractor, Swales, is beginning to build the first spacecraft bus, e.g. body of the spacecraft where the instruments are located.
April 14, 2004: The first ground-based observatory with an all-sky imager and its enclosure is successfully operating in Athabasca in Canada. It has a heater and an air-conditioner in order to keep the camera at the right temperature in the arctic environment. To learn more about these ground-based observatories, see the Gallery and Activities page.
April 12 , 2004: We welcomed 9 high school teachers and schools to our GEONS program. They were selected out of 24 schools in competitions held by the Space Grant Consortiums in different states determined by the THEMIS science team. To find out more about this network, visit our GEONS page.
 Kids attracted to science project like magnet
(HTML article, published on nevadaappeal.com)
- October, 2004 |
 Carson City students, WNCC, NASA Partner to Study Northern Lights
(PDF Format- 1.53MB, published in WestWind)
- October, 2004 |
Red Cloud to study northern lights
(HTML article, published on RapidCityJournal.com)
- October, 2004 |
Druck (deutsch)
(HTML article, published on derStandard.at)
- June, 2004 |
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