kurt, I agee with your opinion on the need for advertising. You bring up some good points Rodger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Canopus56" <canopus56@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy List Serv" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Marketing Wheeler Farm to schools for the summer2009 season The Wheeler Farm site for next year's schedule will take another stab at having an urban astronomy site at a location other than traditional urban sidewalk astronomy sites. The sidewalk astronomy Harmon's parking lot approach has been very sucessful with the club due to the heavy walk-by traffic. Relocating some outreach parties from light-flooded parking lots to an off street location means that to maintain a similar level of attendence, more site advertising would need to be done. One outreach draw source would be public schools within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm. Another marketing possibility would be to use the off-season winter time to purchase or build an attractive large 10 x 15 water proof temporary sign that could be put up at Wheeler along 900 South on Wednesday night. The sign would say something like "Star party here Friday at 7pm". With respect to targeting school audiences for the summer astronomy season, one idea might be to distribute a box of the SLAS schedules to each school within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm, mailing or delivering themin April before school lets out. The following is Google Earth kmz file that frames on schools within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm. http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerFarm_Schools3... (download) http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerFarm3kmSchool... The Google Earth listed addresses for each of the approximately 28 schools, including public, charter and private, are listed below. I estimate that there may be around 20,000 K-12 students within that radius (6 high schools at 2500 each; 4 junior high 1000 each; 11 elementary at 700 each). I have not gone through the websites and/or the Utah Board of Education statewide directory to identify possible science teachers at each site: FOCUS SCHOOLS Academy For Math, Engineering and Sciences (AMES) 5715 S 1300 E Holladay, UT 84121 (801) 278-9460 Ames-slc.org HIGH SCHOOLS Brighton High School 2220 E 7600 S Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 256-5200 Creekside Alternative High School 179 E 5065 S Murray, UT 84107 (801) 264-7470 http://www.murrayschools.org/wworks/ Cottonwood High School 5717 S 1300 E Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 646-5264 http://www.graniteschools.org/hs/cottonwood/ Hillcrest High School 7350 S 900 E Midvale, UT 84047 (801) 256-5400 http://www.hillcresthigh.com/ Murray High School 5440 S State St Murray, UT 84107 (801) 264-7460 http://www.murrayschools.org/MHS/ Utah Southvalley High School 5858 S 900 E Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 266-8721 http://www.utahsc.org/ MIDDLE Bonneville Junior High School 5330 S 1660 E Holladay, UT 84117 (801) 646-5124 http://www.graniteschools.org/jr/bonneville/BJH/WELCOME.html Hillcrest Jr High School 126 E 5300 S Murray, UT 84107 (801) 264-7442 http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/HJH/hjh.htm Midvale Middle School 7852 Pioneer St Midvale, UT 84047 (801) 412-2150 http://www.midvalemiddleschool.com/ Union Middle School 615 E 8000 S Sandy, UT 84070 (801) 412-2200 http://union.jordan.k12.ut.us/ ELEMENTARY Butler Elementary School 2700 E Fort Union Blvd Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 944-2942 http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/butlerelem/ Canyon View Elementary School 3050 Bengal Blvd Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 944-2953 http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/canyon/ East Midvale 6990 S 300 E Midvale, UT 84047 (801) 565-7450 http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/east_midvale/ Horizon Elementary School 5180 S 700 W Murray, UT 84123 (801) 264-7420 http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/HZN/mainpage.html Liberty Elementary School 140 W 6100 S Murray, UT 84107 (801) 264-7424 http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/LBT/index.htm Longview Elementary School 6240 Longview Dr Murray, UT 84107 (801) 264-7428 http://www.murrayschools.org/wworks/ Midvalley Elementary School 217 E 7800 S Midvale, UT 84047 (801) 565-7464 http://midvalley.jordan.k12.ut.us/ Oakdale Elementary School 1900 Creek Rd Sandy, UT 84093 (801) 944-2907 http://www.jordan.k12.ut.us/oakdale/default.htm Sego Lily School 1533 Murray Holladay Rd Holladay, UT 84117 (801) 274-9555 http://www.segolilyschool.org/ Woodstock Elementary School 6015 S 1300 E Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 646-5108 http://www.graniteschools.org/el/woodstock/ PRIVATE Creative Learning Center 7304 Jonathan Drive Salt Lake City, UT 84121-0841 (801) 944-1032 http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/27863 Montessori School of Murray 6446 S 900 E Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 268-0944 http://www.evergreen-montessori.com/ Mt Vernon Academy 184 E Vine St Murray, UT 84107 (801) 266-5521 http://www.mountvernonacademy.com/ St Vincent De Paul School 1385 Spring Ln Salt Lake City, UT 84117 (801) 277-6702 http://www.stvincents-school.org/ OTHER SCHOOLS Jordan Resource Center 362 W Center St Midvale, UT 84047 (801) 565-7584 http://www.jordandistrict.org/schools/special/jrc.htm La Europa Academy 1220 Vine St Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 268-9303 http://www.laeuropaacademy.com/ Small Fri Academy 6070 S 1300 E Salt Lake City, UT 84121 (801) 281-8388 The statewide school directory with better addresses can be found at: http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ under the Information tab. The addressed listed above are in perma link: http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerSchoolAddress... - Kurt _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://gallery.utahastronomy.com Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com