Monthly Meetings

MONTHLY MEETING

Date: February 21, 2025
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: TAMU Physics Teaching Observatory Classroom, Fishtank Road, College Station, TX
Event open to: General Public

Program Title: Sharing the Sky: Bringing the Universe to Everyone

Program: Astronomy outreach is a great way to not only promote our club, but also to help spark interest in the sciences. The best part is that you don't have to be an expert -- anyone can do outreach, regardless of experience level. In fact, you don't even need a telescope!

In this presentation, Tom Campbell, Outreach Coordinator for the Brazos Valley Astronomy Club, will go over the basics of what outreach is, why we care about it, and how you can get started on this rewarding journey.

Speaker: Tom Campbell
Tom Campbell has been the Outreach Coordinator for the Brazos Valley Astronomy Club since 2018. Now in the seventh year of his one-year mission, he continues to actively promote amateur astronomy for the Bryan-College Station community. During this time, he has organized 139 club events with almost 16,000 total attendance.

Besides his outreach work for the club, Tom is also a NASA/JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Solar System Ambassador, one of about 1,300 people in the United States and its territories who has been trained to promote the missions of the U.S. Space Program.

When he isn't pointing his telescope at the sky, Tom works as a software developer for TEEX, writing in-house code to assist in optimizing their online training programs and maintaining their Learning Management System.

Speaker: Tom Campbell