About DSPIRA
Free radio astronomy lessons for educators, students, and telescope builders.
DSPIRA means Digital Signal Processing in Radio Astronomy. Teachers developed these activities through an NSF program at West Virginia University, working with Green Bank Observatory. The documented summer cohorts ran from 2017 through 2019. The lessons and educator community continue beyond those summer programs.
Choose an activity or telescope project. Teachers can prepare a class or contribute materials by email.
For cohort rosters, funding, and the program timeline, visit DSPIRA program history.
From a participant
Tad Herman, one of the 2018 teachers, kept a day-by-day blog of the whole summer.