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February Practical Astronomy and General Assembly Meeting on Tuesday, Feb 7

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Just a reminder that our February General Assembly meeting will be on a new night: Tuesday, Feb 7.
Same location: Room 2.136 of the Engineering Teaching Center on the NW corner of Dean Keeton and San Jacinto, on the UT campus.

Practical Astronomy kicks off at 6:30.
Our Practical Astronomer Dawn Davies will speak on the topic of Citizen Science.

General Assembly meeting starts at 7:30.
Our featured speaker will be Frank Mikan. Frank’s talk will focus on astronomy education with a discussion of science education in general over the past 50 years.

AAS and AmplifyAustin

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ICYMI: Austin Astronomical Society is participating in AmplifyAustin – a season of giving and a single-day fundraising event to amplifytransparentsupport hundreds of non-profits around the city of Austin. Amplify Austin is the premier regional fundraising day for nonprofits, and it provides deserving organizations the opportunity to get in front of the public and make their case for contributions from individual donors. Since this is AAS’ first year of participation, we have set a low, but attainable, fundraising target of $500.

Amplify gives AAS the opportunity to have its name, mission and website seen by thousands of residents who may never have heard of our organization. The process of locating, gathering and assembling our documentation for participation in the event gave us practice for future donations, grants and even for the preparation of a future board manual. Lastly, our AAS budget consists almost entirely of funds from memberships, small donations from individuals and funds from auctions, RASC book sales, etc. Fundraising of this type gives us the opportunity to diversify our revenue without having to increase the size of our membership.

Do visit the AAS AmplifyAustin site!