For teachers, after school STEM programs, and informal STEM educators.
Galileo Galilei and His Inventions
How Telescopes Work: From Pinholes to the Hubble Space Telescope -


Saturday, April 7, 2018

Learn about Galileo's life and times. Explore what pinhole viewers and giant telescopes have in common through using lenses to construct a basic model of a telescope.
  • Learn how telescopes use lenses and mirrors together to organize light to form images of distant objects.
  • Explore the properties of both light and lenses.
  • Construct a simple telescope.
  • Receive a set of 24 Galileoscopes - $1,500 value (shipped directly to your school, program, or organization).

Registration - $40.00 (includes a mini-kit of materials and 24 Galileoscopes).

Workshop is presented by Brian Kruse from the Teacher Learning Center at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and hosted by the SAM Academy and the Community Science Workshop Network .


This workshop is supported in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.