title: Life, the universe, and everything: an education outreach proposal to build a traveling astrobiology exhibit.
abstract: Astrobiology is a transdisciplinary field with extraordinary potential for the scientific community. As such, it is important to educate the community at large about the growing importance of this field to increase awareness and scientific content learning and expose potential future scientists. To this end, we propose the creation of a traveling museum exhibit that focuses exclusively on astrobiology and utilizes modern museum exhibit technology and design. This exhibit (the "Astrobiology Road Show"), organized and evaluated by an international group of astrobiology students and postdocs, is planned to tour throughout the Americas.
authors.affiliation: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91107, USA. laura.m.barge@jpl.nasa.gov
authors.forename: Laura M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Barge
authors.forename: André A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pulschen
authors.forename: Ana Paula Mendes
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Emygdio
authors.forename: Curtis
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Congreve
authors.forename: Darío E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Kishimoto
authors.forename: Amanda G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Bendia
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: de Morais M Teles
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: DeMarines
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stoupin
mesh_terms: D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005085:Exhibitions as Topic; D018559:Exobiology / Q000193:education*; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D019369:Life; D012107:Research Design; D014195:Travel