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I gave three workshops this year: Polyhedra, Astronomy, and Stories of the Sky.
Weaving Paper Polyhedra this year featured a pre-cut and pre-folded model of World, a 240-sided model. Several people made models, and six of them were at the Artist's Exhibit on Friday night in Slusher. In case you missed it, the same display is on this page. These are all great models, and I hope to give this workshop next year so that more models will be built.
Stories of the Sky featured legends of the constellations in our sky from the Greeks, Romans, Native Americans, Australian aborigines, Chinese, and Japanese. Our recognized 88 constellations are based mostly on Greek and Roman legend, so that these other legends are something different: a different way of thinking of the same stars in our sky.
Astronomy was an introduction to astronomy including the stars, galaxies and planets, and how to view them with the naked eye, binoculars, and a telescope. Mars is the current astronomical attraction, because of it being so close, and after Serendipity I saw Mars in the sky. Really, I should have made this workshop a Late Night workshop, as Mars presently is quite a sight in a telescope.