Sergio Salata, Astronomy Project Manager of Added Value Solutions (AVS) in Tenerife visits the TMT office. Sergio (far-right) joins a group of Caltech astronomy summer undergraduate research students, led by Prof. Matthew Graham (center), Project Scientist for the Zwicky Transient Factory, and visits the TMT lab. in California on 20 July 2023.
A Maunakea Coin Contest Winner collects her prize bag and smiles for the camera while being announced and applauded on stage with Uncle Kimo Pihana and Nadine Manset, another Coin Contest Committee member.
The first place overall winner, Lindsey Nicole Julian smiles with her plaque while standing next to her design.
Photo montage of the TMT team at AstroDay, where families could explore activities and STEM projects taking place in the Hawaiʻi community and enjoy experiments from local groups
Exploring Your Universe (EYU) 2022, at UCLA on Nov. 6, 2022 - TMT booth at EYU science fair was very busy all day and offered fun games and activities with the VR, gravity well and UV beads -
AstroDay 2022 in Kona, Hawaiʻi on Nov. 5, 2022. TMT booth at AstroDay offered fun moon-related activities
TMT staff gave an astronomy presentation and a tour of ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center for students visiting from County of Hawai’i sister city Nago, in Japan. They visited Hawai’i Island through their Study Abroad Program. Our colleague Yuko Kakazu, Education and Outreach Scientist at Subaru Telescope and Thirty Meter Telescope, who is also from Okinawa, gave them an overview of Maunakea, local observatories, and programs connecting indigenous knowledge with new astronomical discoveries.
TMT volunteers participated in the outreach event, offering activities on exoplanets, telescopic observations and even a virtual reality journey through the planned TMT observatory.
TMT was at "Explore Your Universe" (EYU) event at UCLA on Sunday November 3, 2019. A fun day with an overflow of kids experiencing TMT virtual reality walkthrough and a lively discussion with numbers of interesting questions. The 11th annual EYU event was a huge success, with positive feedbacks and rewarding interaction with the local community.
Group of TECI graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early-career professionals from partners in the Thirty Meter Telescope International Observatory visiting TMT Lab on 6 December 2018 during the annual TECI workshop. The workshop is designed to support international collaboration among the TMT partners including Caltech, Canada, China, India, Japan, and University of California. A full week program to build community among TMT future users and leaders, and connect them to current TMT leaders.
On Saturday 03 November, TMT provided an interactive activity to Hawaii Girl Scouts at The Pearl Harbor Pacific Aviation Museum during the Girl Scouts STEM Fest 2018. The girls had a great time building telescopes and learning about our solar system and beyond.
Akamai interns from TMT and UC Santa Cruz surrounded by their mentors at TMT project office in Pasadena for the 2018 internship symposium on Tuesday 14 August, 2018.
