Outreach
Public Science Lectures
Ortega Lectureship
- Spring 2024 - Nour E. Rawafi
- Extreme Exploration: Going Above and Beyond in Unraveling
the Mysteries of the Sun and its Environment - Dr. Nour E. Rawafi, Parker Solar Probe Project Scientist
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, USA
- Extreme Exploration: Going Above and Beyond in Unraveling
- Fall 2023 - Dan Werthimer
- Is Anybody Out There? The Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations
- Dr. Dan Werthimer, Berkeley SETI Research Center Chief Scientist, SETI@home co-founder, CASPER Principal Investigator
Astronomy Dept and Space Sciences Lab, University of California, Berkeley, USA
- Previous Lectures
S3 Student Organization
The Ortega Observatory is home to the newly established Florida Tech student organization S3. With a focus on Space Sciences, the club consists of three committees: Student Astronomical Society (SAS), Society of Physics Students (SPS), and Students for Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS). For more information: https://linktr.ee/S3FLTech
Workshops and Other Projects:
- Partnership with NASA/Kennedy Space Center to obtain new equipment (look for details in the near future!)
- History of Space Art Collection: Collections of over 150 NASA printed images, cataloging the history of space photography.
- 3D Printing Planet: Collaboration with CAMID to provide accessible learning of planetary bodies.
- Teacher Summer Camp
- Student Work Shops: Undergraduate Preparation for Graduate School
- SEFS (Scientists in Every Florida School)
