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Large Crowd attended Willard Clock Museum Lecture and Stargazing Event

A large crowd registered and attended the James Webb Space Telescope lecture and Stargazing event last night at the Willard Clock Museum. A big thank you to both the Willard Clock Museum staff and the keynote speaker M.J. Johnson for the invite to Aldrich to help with this event. To all indications after talking to …

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Rocket Day at Ecotarium

Aldrich Astronomical Society was invited to the Worcester Ecotarium’s Rocket Day this past Saturday. Aldrich Members Jim Zebrowski and Bruce Card manned a busy display table showing all kinds of interesting hands on stuff including meteorites, STEM related displays, and rocket displays.  Below are a few pictures from the event.

Lift-Off to Learning Program at Lunenburg Public Library

Aldrich President Jim Zebrowski presented the Lift-off to Learning program at the field behind the Lunenburg Library on Thursday June 29th. He used a combination of stomp rockets, air burst rockets and screaming rocket balloons to talk about Newton’s Laws of Motion especially the Action-reaction principle of the third law of motion. He introduced everyone to our local …

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“Make a Comet” event at Lunenburg Public Library

Club president Jim Zebrowski held a make a comet demonstration on Thursday June 22nd at the Lunenburg Public Library. Many families attended and their children took part in the interactive program. The kids were really engaged as they had many questions. See pictures below from the event.  

Aldrich attends BSA Heart of New England Council Roundtable Meeting

Aldrich Astronomical Society members Jim Zebrowski, Bruce Card, and Kevin Boucher attend the Vendor portion of the Boy Scouts of America Heart of New England Council Roundtable Meeting. The meeting was meant to introduce scout leaders to vendors of interest to the scouts. Turnout was very good with over 100 scout leaders in attendance. The …

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Memorial Service for Aldrich member Jim Erickson at Stellafane

There was a very nice Memorial Service held at Stellafane for former Aldrich member Jim Erickson who was also an active member at Stellafane for many years. The memorial event happened last Saturday May 20th at the Stellafane member meeting in Springfield Vermont. Aldrich President Jim Zebrowski attended the service along with Jim’s daughter and …

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