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  The Adirondack Public Observatory's educational outreach has made it into the regional school districts. Teachers from Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, St. Regis Falls, Malone and Salmon River attended the Regional Staff Development Day in October. Sponsored by the APO, the title of the full day workshop was: "Visual Aids to Enhance Teaching Astronomy in the Classroom".

  Kathy Lefebvre, science coordinator and veteran teacher at LP Quinn Elementary School, provided her knowledge and expertise with StarLab (a portable planetarium provided on loan through BOCES) while Gordie Duval, Tupper Lake High School science teacher and APO trustee, demonstrated a variety of free animations and software including Stellarium and Celestia. The APO (thank you Carol Levy) provided models, charts, books and videos to be shared with the school districts on a loan basis. At the end of the day, we took suggestions from the teachers and have already started planning for next year.

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Gordie Duval with the presentation materials	The StarLab Planetarium projector
Assorted astronomy texts for students	Lots of fun astronomy toys!
More teaching materials	A couple of nice orreries
Teachers try out Celestia	What's visible in the sky this evening?