Teachers invited to workshop

    PRESQUE ISLE – The Aroostook County Astronomy Club will host an astronomy workshop session for high school and middle school teachers on Saturday, May 17, in the Campus Center of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.    Dr. Manju Prakash, Northeast Regional NASA representative and Maine School of Science and Mathematics physics instructor, will present a 2 p.m. session about THEMIS (Thermal Emission Imaging System), a recent NASA mission to study the origin of the northern lights.
    Teachers are also invited to take part in hands-on activities making a planisphere, sundial and learning about classroom resources available online.
    A planetarium show “Close Encounters of the 1975 Kind” is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Francis Malcolm Science Center in Easton.
    For more information contact Jim Stepp at 768-9560.