Maryland Day 2023 -- THANK YOU!

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Elizabeth M Warner

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May 1, 2023, 2:56:41 PM5/1/23
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Thank you! Weather-wise, well, it was cool and it didn't rain, but no matter the weather, it's the volunteers who make the event the success that it is. Thank you to all of the amazing volunteers who helped with our 4 activities. We had faculty, staff, grads, undergrads, friends who all contributed. THANK YOU! And I really can't say thank you enough to the volunteers who stayed beyond their shifts (last year we had ~40 volunteers and this year only 28).

Ardon, Andres
Barnes, Tilden
Chirenti, Cecilia
Ealy, Jordan
Farnham, Tony
Fourkas, Austen
Garcia, Fred
Garfinkel, Josh
Hammond, Tobi
Hayes-Gehrke, Melissa
Hoffman, Erika
Hord, Ben
Kaluzienski, Brooke
Komacek, Tad
Kozlov, Peter
Leidig, Katya
Lessard, Madeline
Light,Siobhan
Manjigani, Satvik
Miles, Lauren
Miller, Cole
Pereira, Joao
Rauch, Kevin
Rivera-Munoz, Sebastian
Villanueva Llanos, Vicente
Warner, Elizabeth
Yugadeep Kanaparthy
Zoghbi, Abdu
??, Thomas

Haven't gotten the official headcount yet, but I think we had a fair number of folks visiting and enjoying the opportunity to interact with our faculty, grads, undergrads and AstroTerps! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! There were several folks who worked long shifts through the day. I can't thank our volunteers enough!

[If there is anyone I overlooked, I profusely apologize and please let me know so that I can update my notes. And if there is anyone who didn't get a t-shirt but should have, please let me know.]


PICTURES
I managed to take some pictures and they've been posted at 

https://photos.app.goo.gl/XJZ9irwvsmKLzckZ7

 (Please tag, write captions...) If you have pictures that you'd like to share, we'd love to see them.

**Feedback**
Now, we'd like some feedback from volunteers and from those who just visited: what worked/didn't work about MD Day (overall? department's display)? what did you like/not like (overall? department's display)? Any comments, criticism, praise both for the overall program and our department's 4 events would be greatly appreciated so that we can continue to improve the program.

Our activities:

  • Ask an Astronomer
  • Solar Observing
  • Fingerprinting the Universe
  • Looking Into the Cosmos
Clear Skies!

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Elizabeth M Warner
UMD Obs Director
warn...@astro.umd.edu
301-405-6555
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