Star Tres

I’m a co-founder of the outreach initiative Star Tres together with Dr. Javiera Rey and Dr. (c) Carolina Agurto. Since 2013, we work in create reliable astronomical material that we share in different social media platform (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Spotify and YouTube) with the goal to share in simple words the most recent astronomical discoveries, but also show a more closer face of the scientific life. We are the first Chilean/spanish-speaking initiative of this type led by women, therefore, as part of our goal we promote the visibility of female participation in science.

Nowadays our community is large (33000 subscribers in YouTube) which opened us up to many opportunities:

Asteroid Workshop: A rocky Adventure, AVERO

In 2020 we won a 5874EUR grant from the IAU-OAD outreach project.

The goal of our project was to deliver astronomical material (900 kits) for students and develop a training course for teachers, focused on the science of asteroids:

• Many teachers in public schools, while they have motivation, they lack resources and training to implement any class-innovation beyond the basics.
• Selected students and teachers came from less favored Chilean public schools.
• Educational kits were built and distributed thanks to the OAD funding, with additional material from ALMA and ESO.
• We trained all selected teachers so they could replicate the Asteroids Workshop with their students. Our asteroids handbook, workshop video, and all additional material was published in our website for other teachers to use it as well.

Eclipse 2020 collaboration with SERNATUR Los Rios.

With the sponsorship of the Chilean national service of tourism and the support of the science ministry we prepare a document with all the needed information about the Eclipse 2020 that you can find here and 3 videos:

Disfrutemos un #EclipseSeguro en Los Ríos

En sus marcas, seguros y listos ¡#Eclipse2020!

Captura con seguridad lo mejor del #Eclipse2020

Divulgacon

Divulgacon it was an event organized by the Museo Interactivo Mirador (MIM) where national and international Edutubers and Scientist present about different topics. Star Tres was invited and we talked about Women in Science. More than 11000 people from all around hispanoamerica have already watched the maratonic youtube transmission.

Astrocalendario

We worked in an illustrated astronomy calendar 2020 published by Editorial USACH and available in Buscalibre.

Febrero de Cientificas

During all february 2019 and 2020, to promote women in science visibility we create the social media initiative #FebreroDeCientificas, sharing short biographies of Latin American female scientists. Due to the big and positive response from our community, we are looking forward to continuing this in the next few years.

#YoutubersenALBA

Alba sincrotron, located in Barcelona, Spain; invite Star Tres as part of the 14 youtubers to meet their facilities and the science developed there. This experience can be seen in Instagram Stories. Click here to see the Instagram photogallery of this visit.

100 Líderes Jóvenes 2018

In october 2018, the newspaper El Mercurio and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez select us among the “100 Líderes Jóvenes 2018” (100 Young Leaders 2018) for our marvellous careers and work in astronomy outreach.

Mujeres Bacanas

In 2018 the initiative “Mujeres Bacanas”, dedicated to visualizing the legacy of women through their lives and works, highlying our trajectory as Star Tres in their website.

Science collaborators with Planetario de Santiago

In 2017 we participated as science collaborators in the script of “Bot y Lu: El escape del Agujero Negro”, the first production made for Planetario de Santiago.

Mujeres Chilenas en ciencia

Also in 2016 I was ask to participated in the record of a video called “Granito de Arena” in the frame of the contest “Mujeres Chilenas en Ciencias” where the team earn a honorific mention.

MeetESO

In 2016 we participated in the social media contest #MeetESO visiting the facilities of cerro Paranal and ALMA together with 7 other social media personalities from all around the world, we recorded all the visit and we share it in 3 videos in our channel.

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Public Talks at Universidad de Valparaiso

During my years as student at Universidad de Valparaíso in Chile I participated in different outreach projects including astronomy talks in schools, general public, and in the organization of workshops for “Día Nacional de la Astronomía” and talks about woman and girls in science “¿Qué significa ser científica hoy?”. I also collaborated with EXPLORA Valparaíso as scientific assistant in astronomy public events.

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