The role of the Journey Scientist is to spark enthusiasm for science during Journey Week, and rekindle it as necessary once the excitement of Journey Week is over. If you can provide the Journey Team with your time and enthusiasm, we will try to provide you with opportunities for your professional development. You can make an immediate impact on the community by sharing your experience with students, and can develop your public presentation expertise in workshops with fellow scientists.

To make the Journey through the Universe program a true partnership effort, it is important that there is good communication between the Journey team and the Journey Scientists. The Journey Team needs Journey Scientists to:

• Contact Catherine Ishida (808-934-5086/cat@subaru.naoj.org) to express your interest.
• Provide a photo and a biographical scketch of 200 to 500 words.
• Provide a brief statement of interest including a description of potential presentation topics.
• Tell the Journey Team what you want from the orientation.
• Commit to be at the orientation
• Commit to spend at least one day during Journey Week visiting classrooms.
• Tell the Journey Team which days these will be.
• Tell the Journey Team if there are specific schools/grades/classrooms you wish to visit.
• Be ready to give a presentation to any age level.
• Commit to revisiting a classroom if requested.
• Give written feedback to improve next years program.

In exchange, the Journey Team will:

• Provide a useful orientation.
• Provide information on the program to Journey Scientists.
• Include Journey Scientists and their home organizations in promotional materials.
• Provide feedback that will help Journey Scientists improve their presentation skills.