Un puente a los cielos

Versión en Español

Un puente a los cielos is a summer program at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, which will run the summer of 2002, from approximately June 10 -- July 25. The program will use a team of bilingual Socorro high school students, a local teacher, the NRAO education and outreach specialist, a astronomer and a computer expert to translate astronomy web pages into Spanish and develop a tour of the Very Large Array for the community in Spanish.

Un puente a los cielos is funded by a NASA IDEAS grant.

The principal investigators include:

Kristy Dyer NSF fellow at NRAO-Socorro kdyer@nrao.edu

Robyn Harrison NRAO Education and Public Outreach Specialist rharriso@nrao.edu

Allan Poindexter Computing expert apoindex@nrao.edu

Partners in Un puente a los cielos include:

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
New Mexico Tech Department of Physics
National Science Foundation, through a Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellowship

Web pages reviewers:

Thanks to Spanish-speaking astronmers around the world who have corresponded with the students about the web pages.

Spanish-Speaking Astronomers

Questions and comments can be addressed to:

Kristy Dyer kdyer@nrao.edu 505-835-7372

David Finley, NRAO press officer, dfinley@nrao.edu, 505-835-7302

Acknowlegements

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