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Dan Schneiderman

Eclipse Partnership Coordinator
RMSC
Rochester, New York, United States

Dan is the Eclipse Partnership Coordinator and Community Engagement Manager at the RMSC (Rochester Museum and Science Center). Through his eclipse role, he co-chaired the Rochester Eclipse Task Force and produced the ROC the Eclipse Festival. Over the last five years, Dan led the Greater Rochester Region, New York State, and beyond in preparing for the April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse. He has collaborated with NASA, One World Observatory on top of One World Trade Center, I LOVE NY, libraries, schools, government officials, and everyone under the sun.

As the Eclipse Partnership Coordinator, Dan gave over 100 presentations, led hands-on activities and demonstrations at over 40 festivals and large public events, contributed to NOAA's Science on a Sphere eclipse data sets and scripts, and sat on both the informal science committee and the local planning work group for the American Astronomical Society Eclipse task force. In partnership with Science Sandbox, an initiative of the Simons Foundation, Dan advised museums, breweries, science non-profits, and Main Street America cities on how to coordinate their eclipse efforts and how to communicate the science of the eclipse to their communities. Within Rochester, he established the RMSC Community Eclipse Ambassador program where we brought in 50 organizations with little to no background in astronomy to be trained on the science of the eclipse, how to use telescopes, and science communication. Through this program over 60 telescopes were deployed across wider Rochester.

In addition to his eclipse work, he has over 15 years of experience producing STEAM-based events including Maker Faire Rochester, the Finger Lakes Region FIRST Robotics Competition, and STEAM-based areas at the Great New York State Faire and Rochester Fringe Festival.

Dan has been featured on CBS News, ABC News, FOX Weather, Forbes, Make Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.

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