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>>In August of this year, we will have the first
total eclipse in 38 years.

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It actually will cross the entire continental
United States.

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So it's a big event, not just for our local
area but literally for our nation.

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>>This is what we're all here about...there's
no other planet in our solar system that has

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a satellite such that it can cause an eclipse.

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>>The whole purpose of the workshop is to train
teachers on activities that they can do with

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their students to engage them so that the
day of the event not only can they step outside

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to look at the solar eclipse, but to also
understand the different aspects of education

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that relates back to that within the classroom.

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>>This would probably be helpful after they've
seen the path.

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You can really see it, can't you?

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>>One of the things that's neat about NASA Armstrong
is that we actually have planes that are gonna

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be flying the day of eclipse and taking radiation
measurements and gathering scientific data

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and so there's all sorts of opportunities
for students to not just take a look at the

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eclipse but to become alongside NASA and be
citizen scientists and truly engage in the

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science that's gathered that day.

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>>You just connected science to their everyday
life.

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If you can get kids to think about the fact
that when there is a sunrise and sunset, and

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that whenever there's a shadow, that there's
science, and you've got them for life.

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>>This is crossing the entire continental United
States, so I think that this is gonna be an

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event that kids will talk about for years
because it's gonna be "where were you August

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21, 2017?

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Where did you see the eclipse from?

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What is a partial eclipse, what it a total
eclipse?"

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It's gonna be one of those "What were you
doing on that day?"