Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop needs your help!

As many of you know, I was privileged to attend Launch  Pad Astronomy Workshop in 2011. This extraordinary workshop, a college course in astronomy offered over the course of a week, was one of the most intense, exhilarating, and inspiring adventures in bringing excellent science to larger audiences through fiction. Now Launch Pad needs your help to make this experience available to more writers, editors, journalists, artists and more.



Launch Pad is an education/public outreach effort, aimed primarily at writers, filmmakers, and other creative professionals.

At
its best, science fiction can inspire and teach a wide audience about
our universe. At its worst, poorly written fiction can mislead the
public. At Launch Pad, we aim to provide our attendees with a weeklong
Astronomy 101-level course, including a visit and observations through
the University of Wyoming's 2.3-meter telescope.

In previous
years, funding for Launch Pad was made possible through grants from NASA
and the NSF. Due to funding cutbacks, we are asking for your help to
cover our costs and reduce the out of pocket expenses for our attendees.