Mr. Ryan M. Hannahoe Profile

Ryan M. Hannahoe

Executive Director at Montana State Univ

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SPIE Journal Paper | 14 June 2013 Open Access

Teaching and learning geometric optics in middle school through the Turning Eyes to the Big Sky project

Mary Leonard, Ryan Hannahoe, Gustave Nollmeyer, Joseph Shaw

OE, Vol. 52, Issue 06, 069001, (June 2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.10.1117/1.OE.52.6.069001

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Geometrical optics, Lenses, Space telescopes, Refractor telescopes, Optical engineering, Eye, Reflector telescopes, Astronomy, Objectives

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Proceedings Article | 15 October 2012 Open Access

Turning eyes to the big sky project: learning optics in middle-school

Mary Leonard, Ryan Hannahoe, Gustav Nollmeyer

Proceedings Volume 8481, 84810G (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.928895

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Lenses, Reflector telescopes, Space telescopes, Refractor telescopes, Eye, Astronomy, Geometrical optics, Optics education, Astatine

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Proceedings Article | 5 February 2003 Paper

The Student Telescope Network (STN) Experiment

Ryan Hannahoe, Robert Stencel, Steve Bisque, Mike Rice

Proceedings Volume 4796, (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.458061

KEYWORDS: Telescopes, Astronomy, Internet, Observatories, Astronomical telescopes, CCD cameras, Digital cameras, Scientific research, Robotics, Stars

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Several factors make observational astronomy difficult for pre-college students and teachers. (1) not many schools have teachers trained to use and maintain astronomy equipment; (2) school usually happens during the day and observing normally is a night-time activity; (3) the scourge of light pollution has hidden the stars from many students living in or near cities; (4) there is a general lack of access to expertise when needed. In addition, physically disabled students cannot climb ladders, to access the telescope eyepiece. Internet access to computer-controlled telescopes equipped with digital cameras can solve many of these difficulties. This enables students and their teachers to access well-maintained, robust Internet-controllable telescopes in dark-site locations and to consult more readily with experts. We present the results of technical solutions to Internet-control of telescopes, by Software Bisque, the New Mexico Skies Guest Observatory and the Youth Activities Committee of the Astronomical League in collaboration with Denver University Astronomy. We jointly submitted a funding proposal to the Institute for Connecting Science Research to the Classroom, and conducted a pilot program allowing high school students to access a CCD-equipped, accurately-pointing and tracking telescope, controllable over the Web, with a user-friendly skymap browser tool. With suitably placed telescopes worldwide, observing from the classroom in daylight will become feasible, as we have demonstrated with Australian and Eurasian student users of the New Mexico Skies Internet telescope. We report here on a three-month pilot project exploring this solution, conducted Feb-May 2002. User interest proved phenomenal, while user statistics proved diverse and there were distinct lessons learned about how to enhance student participation in the research process. We thank the Institute for Connecting Science Research to the Classroom for a grant to the University of Denver in partial support of this effort, and acknowleedge in-kind support from the estate of William Herschel Womble. Details at website www.du.edu/~rstencel/stn.htm.

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Optics Education and Outreach II

12 August 2012 | San Diego, California, United States

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WS1115: Learning How Light Works: Reflection

The purpose of this workshop is to introduce K-12 teachers and those who are interested in providing optics outreach to a make-and-take kaleidoscope activity which will teach students about one of the basic properties of light, reflection. Kaleidoscopes are engaging devices that create amazing images using multiple reflections, and this workshop provides step by step instructions for assembling a kaleidoscope and illustrates how multiple reflections lead to the patterns observed in a kaleidoscope. By using the mirrors within the kaleidoscope and a few basic lessons, students will understand the law of reflection. The workshop has been developed to align with the newly published Next Generation Science Standards and is appropriate for use at the Elementary Level 4-PS4-2: Waves: Waves and Information (4-PS4-2) or can also be used for Middle School students for MS-PS4-2: Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation. Each participant will receive a kaleidoscope kit to assemble during the workshop.

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