Reaching the stars: UDP inclusive astronomy outreach experienceErika Fabiola Labbe Waghorn

Astronomy Nucleus, Universidad Diego Portales, Chileelabbew@gmail.com

For the Chilean Astronomy Day 2016, the members of the Astronomy Nucleus of the University DiegoPortales faced a new challenge in their active outreach project: to present astronomy to visually impairedpeople. With low budget and no experience, we looked for a topic suitable for creating simple tactilemodels. After a research work and help from several persons with visual impairment, we presented a talkabout star and planet formation to a group of visually impaired children and adults, positively surprisingthe audience, and ourselves, with the results. This first experience marked the beginning of a series oftalks that we started to deliver across Chile, as well as new collaboration plans. In this presentationwe will share the experience of starting from the scratch, talk about the entire process, including theproblems and learning, and will also talk about our future plans for inclusive astronomy.

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