The Wheeler Farm site for next year's schedule will take another stab at having an urban astronomy site at a location other than traditional urban sidewalk astronomy sites.  The sidewalk astronomy Harmon's parking lot approach has been very sucessful with the club due to the heavy walk-by traffic. Relocating some outreach parties from light-flooded parking lots to an off street location means that to maintain a similar level of attendence, more site advertising would need to be done.  

One outreach draw source would be public schools within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm.  Another marketing possibility would be to use the off-season winter time to purchase or build an attractive large 10 x 15 water proof temporary sign that could be put up at Wheeler along 900 South on Wednesday night. The sign would say something like "Star party here Friday at 7pm".  

With respect to targeting school audiences for the summer astronomy season, one idea might be to distribute a box of the SLAS schedules to each school within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm, mailing or delivering themin April before school lets out.  The following is Google Earth kmz file that frames on schools within 3 kilometers of Wheeler Farm.  

http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerFarm_Schools3km.kmz
http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerFarm3kmSchools.jpg

The Google Earth listed addresses for each of the approximately 28 schools, including public, charter and private, are listed below.  I estimate that there may be around 20,000 K-12 students within that radius (6 high schools at 2500 each; 4 junior high 1000 each; 11 elementary at 700 each). I have not gone through the websites and/or the Utah Board of Education statewide directory to identify possible science teachers at each site: 

FOCUS SCHOOLS

Academy For Math, Engineering and Sciences (AMES)
5715 S 1300 E
Holladay, UT 84121
(801) 278-9460
Ames-slc.org

HIGH SCHOOLS

Brighton High School
2220 E 7600 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 256-5200

Creekside Alternative High School
179 E 5065 S
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 264-7470
http://www.murrayschools.org/wworks/

Cottonwood High School
5717 S 1300 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 646-5264
http://www.graniteschools.org/hs/cottonwood/

Hillcrest High School
7350 S 900 E
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 256-5400
http://www.hillcresthigh.com/


Murray High School
5440 S State St
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 264-7460
http://www.murrayschools.org/MHS/

Utah Southvalley High School
5858 S 900 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 266-8721
http://www.utahsc.org/


MIDDLE

Bonneville Junior High School
5330 S 1660 E
Holladay, UT 84117
(801) 646-5124
http://www.graniteschools.org/jr/bonneville/BJH/WELCOME.html


Hillcrest Jr High School
126 E 5300 S
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 264-7442
http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/HJH/hjh.htm

Midvale Middle School
7852 Pioneer St
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 412-2150
http://www.midvalemiddleschool.com/

Union Middle School
615 E 8000 S
Sandy, UT 84070
(801) 412-2200
http://union.jordan.k12.ut.us/


ELEMENTARY

Butler Elementary School
2700 E Fort Union Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 944-2942
http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/butlerelem/

Canyon View Elementary School
3050 Bengal Blvd
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 944-2953
http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/canyon/
 
East Midvale
6990 S 300 E
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 565-7450
http://web.jordan.k12.ut.us/east_midvale/

Horizon Elementary School
5180 S 700 W
Murray, UT 84123
(801) 264-7420
http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/HZN/mainpage.html

Liberty Elementary School
140 W 6100 S
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 264-7424
http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/LBT/index.htm

Longview Elementary School
6240 Longview Dr
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 264-7428
http://www.murrayschools.org/wworks/

Midvalley Elementary School
217 E 7800 S
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 565-7464
http://midvalley.jordan.k12.ut.us/

Oakdale Elementary School
1900 Creek Rd
Sandy, UT 84093
(801) 944-2907
http://www.jordan.k12.ut.us/oakdale/default.htm

Sego Lily School 
1533 Murray Holladay Rd
Holladay, UT 84117
(801) 274-9555
http://www.segolilyschool.org/

Woodstock Elementary School
6015 S 1300 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 646-5108
http://www.graniteschools.org/el/woodstock/

PRIVATE

Creative Learning Center
7304 Jonathan Drive
Salt Lake City, UT
84121-0841
(801) 944-1032 
http://www.privateschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/27863
 
Mt Vernon Academy
184 E Vine St
Murray, UT 84107
(801) 266-5521
http://www.mountvernonacademy.com/

Montessori School of Murray
6446 S 900 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 268-0944
http://www.evergreen-montessori.com/

St Vincent De Paul School
1385 Spring Ln
Salt Lake City, UT 84117
(801) 277-6702
http://www.stvincents-school.org/


OTHER SCHOOLS

Jordan Resource Center
362 W Center St
Midvale, UT 84047
(801) 565-7584
http://www.jordandistrict.org/schools/special/jrc.htm

La Europa Academy
1220 Vine St
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 268-9303
http://www.laeuropaacademy.com/

Small Fri Academy

6070 S 1300 E
Salt Lake City, UT 84121
(801) 281-8388

The statewide school directory with better addresses can be found at: 

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/ 

under the Information tab. 

The addressed listed about are in perma link: 

http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/photos/WheelerSchoolAddresses.txt

- Kurt