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Bruce McCurdy
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| Updated February 14, 2004 Meet Bruce McCurdy, Sky Scan'sEducation Development Coordinator
Bruce has been involved in public education outreach since 1987, when he became a volunteer interpreter at the Public Observatory of the Edmonton Space Sciences Centre (now Odyssium). Still active as the senior volunteer, Bruce has put in some 2000 hours of service. He has also been a seasonal paid employee in the same capacity for the past few summers, and has shared his love of the cosmos with tens of thousands of people over the years. Bruce has given dozens of classroom presentations, primarily to Grade 6 classes doing the Sky Science Unit. He has also spoken and given demonstrations to various youth groups such as Scouts, Guides, Brownies, Cubs, and the Edmonton Association of Bright Children, as well as lectures to the general public through Edmonton Public Libraries. In the past year, Bruce taught the astronomy course to classes of seniors at Grant McEwan's Minerva Senior Studies Institute. Bruce has been married for 22 years to Anna, a kindergarten teacher at Prince Charles Elementary School. They have one son, Kevin, in the fall of 2002 a Grade 9 student at Westminster Junior High, himself an active Sky Scan volunteer. You can contact Bruce by email at brucem@skyscan.ca
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