Free to the public and all are welcome to attend.

Our program will be a presentation by Colin Anthony Keel, who is presently a third-year undergraduate astrophysics student at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Keel was born and raised in Oklahoma and was a member of the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club until he moved to California. Colin's presentation will be titled, "Astronomy Education in the Modern Day: The Undergraduate Experience."

While the college experience is something that many of us are familiar with, a rapidly changing world has resulted in that experience looking much different than it had for previous generations. This is especially true in astronomy degree programs, where new technologies and changing expectations have altered many aspects of the undergraduate astronomy experience.

The goals of this presentation are to allow those who have pursued collegiate astronomy experience to compare their experience to the modern-day experience, to give those who have not pursued any collegiate astronomy education insight into the general experience, and to show young people what it's like to take on a STEM degree. Colin will do this by looking at the academics, research, extracurricular involvement, and student experience associated with an undergraduate astronomy degree.