Outreach

I have been (perhaps too) heavily involved in outreach since high school. Here are a few events that I have designed and in which I have participated.

Native Star Stories Night

As a AAS National Osterbrock Fellow, I have created and run an annual free event for indigenous pre-college students at UCO Lick Observatory.
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Madelyn, illuminated by red light, on a ladder looking through Lick Observatory's 36 inch refracting telescope.
Participants sit in circles sharing star stories at the inaugural Native Star Stories Night.
Madelyn jumps in front of ALMA dish in Chile.
Madelyn performs physics demo to large group of seated elemetary schoolers.
Madelyn enthusiastically gestures to a scientific poster.
Madelyn points up at large powerpoint showing planet transits
Madelyn stands in front of a Lick Observatory dome wearing a shirt that says, This is what a native scholar looks like.
A group of graduate students and professors stand in front of a California sentator's office in DC.
Madelyn advises a group of high schoolers on an optics outreach activity.