The third semester of the AO STEAM Teaching at ARecibo (STAR) Academy kicked off on Saturday, August 29th, 2020. The 16-week program is for high school students from across the island of Puerto Rico, designed to develop problem solving and research skills while building a strong foundational understanding of math, science, physics, and engineering, with a focus on planetary radar science. + Read More

We have unfortunate news to share with the AO community. Early yesterday morning one of the auxiliary cables at tower 4 of the Arecibo Observatory experienced a failure. Fortunately, there were no resulting injuries to our team. The cable failure damaged 250 panels of the primary dish, as well as 6-8 panels on the Gregorian Dome. + Read More

As promised here is an update on where we stand today. We remain committed to bringing the facility back online as soon as possible. We have been coordinating closely with NSF and NASA, and have established a team that is working on an action plan that focuses on the safety of the staff, and the facility. + Read More

In August 2020, the STAR Teachers: Inspiración Científica para el Futuro program provided a series of free virtual professional workshops for elementary and middle school STEM teachers from around the island of Puerto Rico. A total of 8 workshops were created that included Biology, Chemistry, Nanotechnology and Space Sciences.

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