Category: Youth Engagement
![Youth Organization for Lights Out (YOLO) teens presenting a photovoice project on light pollution in Chicago.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/Little-Village-Night-Sky-Resize-1.png)
Adler Teens Are Protecting Dark Night Skies By Studying Light Pollution In Chicago’s Little Village
Learn how Adler Teens are combatting light pollution in Chicago with Youth Organization For Lights Out in the Adler Planetarium’s exhibit, Chicago’s Night Sky.
![A group of students at the Adler Planetarium's 2023 Operation Airlift, weighing their airship with the guidance of an Adler STEM mentor.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_1038-655x504.png)
Operation Airlift: 3…2…1… Liftoff to Engineering!
What do you get when you mix an indoor soccer field, 500 cubic feet of helium, 100 middle schoolers, endless duct tape, 40 Adler staff and volunteers, 150 boxed lunches, and a pile of Snap Circuits? Why, Operation Airlift, of course!
![Adler Teens venture onto lake Michigan in 2019 looking for fragments of a meteorite!](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/DSC_0295-655x504.jpg)
Aquarius Project Update: The Lab Results Are In
Header Image: Adler Teens venture onto Lake Michigan in 2019 looking for fragments of a meteorite! Listen. It’s been five years since a meteor crashed into Lake Michigan and a team of Adler teens, scientists, and other determined meteorite hunters decided to go after it. The odds were stacked against them at basically every turn. […]
![Adler Teen's who were a part of the Aquarius Project used this underwater sled to search for meteorite fragments.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/Aquarius-Project-Podcast-the-infamous-sled.jpg)
The Aquarius Project Podcast: The Full Story
Header Image: Adler Teen’s who were a part of the Aquarius Project used this underwater sled to search for meteorite fragments. This teen-led underwater meteorite hunt is the podcast you need right now First: The elevator pitch. A meteor crashes into Lake Michigan. An actor who works at the planetarium on the lakeshore assembles a […]
![Adler Teen Stratonaut Duncan A. Yuen presenting the team's findings about light pollution from the trip to Little Red Schoolhouse at an Adler Planetarium event.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/Duncan-sharing-Stratonaut-from-that-trip-655x504.jpg)
Journey to the Starlit Forest: An Adler Teen’s Experience
Header Image: Adler Teen Stratonaut Duncan A. Yuen presenting the team’s findings about light pollution from the trip to Little Red Schoolhouse at an Adler Planetarium event. Seeing a night sky—specifically one that is not affected by light pollution—can be life-changing! If you live in Chicago or a large city with lots of lights, those […]
![Adler Teen Alum Grace Crim is seen here working with other team members who were part of the Adler Teens Stratonauts program!](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/00100lPORTRAIT_00100_BURST20191102132406991_COVER-655x504.jpg)
Our Little Red Schoolhouse Adventure: An Adler Teen’s Experience
Header Image: Adler Teen Alum Grace Crim is seen here working with other team members who were part of the Adler Teens Stratonauts program. Seeing a night sky—specifically one that is not affected by light pollution—can be life-changing! If you live in Chicago or a large city with lots of lights, those lights will drown […]
![Adler Teens inspect machine in Far Horizons lab.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/Adler-Teens-Inspect-Machine-655x504.png)
Adler Teens Talk ThinSat and Working From Home
Header Image: Gamaliel Cruz (far left) alongside Isaiah Meza and Ibrahim Diop (middle & far right respectively) observe a sophisticated machine that is utilized for soldering purposes. Hello! We’re Gamaliel, Isaiah, and Ibrahim—Adler teens from ITW David Speer Academy, a STEM-focused public charter high school in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood of Chicago, working as interns […]
![The Aquarius Project Podcast](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/aquarius_project_podcast.png)
The Aquarius Project Podcast, Episode 5: Welcome to the Bottom
YOU GUYS. It’s finally happening. We have reached the “hunting for meteorites underwater” portion of the Adler’s teen-led underwater meteorite hunt! If you’re new to the Aquarius Project, you can get the full story here. But here’s the short version: Green fireball in the sky, meteorites in the lake, assemblage of unlikely band of science […]
![The Far Horizons display in the Chicago's Night Sky exhibit.](https://www.adlerplanetarium.org/wp-content/uploads/Far-Horizons.jpg)
What Goes Up…
Header Image: The Adler Planetarium’s new exhibit, Chicago’s Night Sky, features a Far Horizons high altitude balloon and an image of the city of Chicago at night from above. When was the last time you took the time to notice your night sky? If you live in or near the City of Chicago—or any large […]
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Adler Teen Alumni: Heritage, Community, and the Future
By Rosalía Lugo, Teen Programs Manager, and Colleen Cesaretti Header Image: 2017 group photo of Adler Interns, including former Adler Teen, Mia Berrios. Credit: Mia Berrios Over the years, many teens have passed through our front doors, and in honor of Latinx Heritage Month, we are celebrating two of our stellar former Adler Teens, David […]