Education and Public Outreach

ADNET is a strong believer that an educated and aware public is the best guarantee of continued support for science, at NASA and every other agency. Our goals are to maximize the number of people who know of our customers’ work; to communicate the significance of that work as effectively as possible; and to help inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. Our aggressive efforts reach every educational level, from elementary school through postgraduates, and with every medium, from family participation events, through webcasts, brochures, traveling shows, brochures, and DVDs. Our activities include:

Leading NASA GSFC social media development; held first-ever launch “Tweet-up” via Twitter; developed popular iPhone app         3-D Sun
Family Science Night programs
Development and support of the NASA outreach for the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival on the National Mall
The Solar Dynamics Observatory Sunday Experiment Program
A YouTube channel for solar astronomy that has garnered 500,000+ hits
Over 50 Earth science news releases and features per year
The internationally famous Science on a Sphere exhibit at Goddard Space Flight Center
Development and staffing of NASA’s annual Sun-Earth Day events, which give us direct contact with 80,000 users, plus another         7 million web visitors
Classroom programs for both space and Earth science

Additional Programs developed and staffed by ADNET include NASA’s Space Weather Action Centers, a Girl Scout leader training program for the Space Sciences, and a Native American science program. There are few companies nationwide who work as broadly or effectively as ADNET to join with our customers in reaching out to and educating the public on the importance of the sciences at NASA and elsewhere.