During the spring semesters of 2017 and 2018, the Science Research Mentoring Program hosted a hands-on astronomy lecture series at the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, in collaboration with the school's Aerospace Engineering & Astronomy Club. The lecture series featured astrophysicists from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. Each activity was divided over two weeks. During the first week, students were asked to read and discuss background material in preparation for the second week's activity. The speaker visited the school on the second week and led a combined lecture and hands-on activity. The syllabi of these activities are provided below. You are free to use them, but please credit their authors, as well as this program, using the DOI of this page. | Activity | Author | Syllabus | | :------------- | :--------------- | :-----------:| | Handling astronomical images | [Or Graur][1] | [PDF][2] | Gravitational waves | [James Guillochon][3] | [PDF][4] | Introduction to dynamics | [Idan Ginsburg][5] | [PDF][6] | Galaxy collisions | [Ana Bonaca][7] | [PDF][8] | Imaging the Moon | [Anna Barnacka][9] | [PDF][10] | An Arduino supernova | [Ashley Villar][11] | [PDF][12] | Erupting black holes | [Sandro Tacchella][13] | [PDF][14] | Drake's equation | [Raphaelle D. Haywood][15] | [PDF][16] | Molecules in space | [Charles Law][17] | [PDF][18] [1]: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~orgraur/ [2]: https://osf.io/34m7r/ [3]: https://astrocrash.net/ [4]: https://osf.io/wx7f9/ [5]: https://itc.cfa.harvard.edu/people/idan-ginsburg [6]: https://osf.io/sx3jk/ [7]: http://www.astro.yale.edu/abonaca/ [8]: https://osf.io/8ufpw/ [9]: http://barnacka.photofolio.org/ [10]: https://osf.io/zbwsu/ [11]: http://ashleyvillar.com/ [12]: https://osf.io/wb7ym/ [13]: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~stacchel/ [14]: https://osf.io/3pd4t/ [15]: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~rhaywood/ [16]: https://osf.io/4ue5p/ [17]: https://astronomy.fas.harvard.edu/people/charles-law [18]: https://osf.io/yx47c/