EDUCATION News:

AstroTour [AR]: Indigenous Cosmologies Through Code is a 6-week transdisciplinary youth workshop that fuses augmented reality, coding, and sky observation.

This powerful new collaboration brings together cultural perspectives, space science, and creative technology in partnership with the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) and the Santa Fe Indian School (SFIS).

Students from SFIS’s Advanced Computer Science class visited the Makowa exhibit at the museum for inspiration.

Bethany Rivera and the STEMarts team with Dr. Julia Blue Bird, Lakota Astrophysicist from NARO (National Astronomical Radio Observatory), and Arwen Hubbard, NASA Solar System Ambassador, are leading workshops SFIS students using p5.js, an open-source coding platform, to explore the intersections of cultural identity and astronomy through the lens of augmented reality and creative coding.

The final outcome of the workshop will be a student-designed augmented reality AstroTour installation, which will be shared with the public at a special star party hosted by MIAC.