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WGBH’S Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms: Outreach and Promotion

WGBH’S Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms: Outreach and Promotion


2020 Mars Perseverance Rover Promotion

Pre-Launch:

  • Mars 2020 Resource kits from NASA
  • Promote Texas State University’s free 1-hour webinar on NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover
  • Shared posts about NASA STEM Stars en Español web chat series to promote Spanish language BUAC resources.

Launch:

  • Shared NASA’s countdown, worked with T Minus Zero to embed live feed of the launch on our Facebook page.

Post-Launch:

  • Leveraged #CountdownToMars hashtag to bring awareness to our Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms collection resources
  • Shared “Perseverance: A Martian Rover to Find Life?” talk from the SETI Institute.

Webinar: NOAA interview with a Scientist and Educator

Interview:

  • Worked with NUSRA / NASA Goddard Office of Communications to coordinate an educator facing interview with Derrick Herndon, scientist at NOAA’s Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies.
  • Promoted event to 31,786 educators and crowdsourced questions from the audience.

Webinar:

  • Registered Users: 118
  • Attendance: 44
  • Recording Views: TBD

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