{"id":9019,"date":"2016-07-29T16:12:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T21:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T16:53:18","slug":"grandparents-university-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/news\/articles\/9019","title":{"rendered":"Grandparents University 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the 12th year in a row, SSEC\/CIMSS participated in Grandparents University. More than a thousand grandparents and grandchildren (ages 9-14) visited the UW-Madison campus, some of whom stopped by\u00a0the AOSS building on July 28 (1:45-4:45 p.m.) and July 29 (9-noon) for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwalumni.com\/benefits-services\/alumni-learning\/grandparents-university\/majors\/#gpu_met\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">meteorology<\/a> &#8220;major.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On day one, CIMSS education and public outreach director Margaret Mooney welcomed the group with an overview of weather and satellite imagery, an anemometer activity, a trip to the CAVE, and a 3D globe demonstration. AOS undergraduate student Kevin Van Schoyck led a Suomi NPP satellite model activity.<\/p>\n<p>On day two, Mooney gave the group an overview of the electromagnetic spectrum through a solar bead activity, and had them identify Madison landmarks using satellite images. Then, SSEC scientist Erik Olson, SSEC research intern\u00a0Michelle Feltz, and\u00a0AOS graduate student David Loveless launched a radiosonde. Back inside, on the eighth floor, AMRC scientist\u00a0David Mikolajczyk gave a presentation on Antarctic research, Library\/Media director Jean Phillips presented early images of snowflake crystals from the Schwerdtfeger Library collection, and SSEC scientist\u00a0Samantha Tushaus led a weather trivia game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwalumni.com\/benefits-services\/alumni-learning\/grandparents-university\/program-overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grandparents University<\/a> is hosted annually by the Wisconsin Alumni Association. 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