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## Current Funding

The WWT Ambassadors program is currently funded through the NSF-supported, science education research and curricula development project called ThinkSpace as well as a NASA-CAN parternship with WGBH. The following awards support WWT Ambassadors projects:

- Thinking Spatially about the Universe - A Physical and Virtual Laboratory for Middle School Science ([NSF 1502798](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1502798) and [NSF 1503395](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503395&HistoricalAwards=false))
- Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms, NASA-CAN ([Award No. NNX16AD71A](https://mass.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/universe/#.XORgvi2ZPOQ))

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## Past Funding

WWT Ambassadors program began through funding and generous support by Miscrosoft Research and the John Templeton Foundation.

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The following John Templeton Foundation awards have supported WWT Ambassadors projects:

- Cultivating Curiosity with Life in the Universe Inquiry Lab (LITU): Alyssa Goodman & Pat Udomprasert ([NS-58380](https://www.templeton.org/grant/cultivating-curiosity-with-life-in-the-universe-inquiry-lab-litu))

The following NSF awards have supported WWT Ambassadors projects:

- Building an Understanding of Astronomical Sizes and Scales with WorldWide Telescope: Edwin Ladd ([DUE-1140440](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1140440&HistoricalAwards=false))
- EAGER: A Prototype WorldWide Telescope Visualization Lab Designed in the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment: Alyssa Goodman ([IIS-1254535](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1254535&HistoricalAwards=false))

The following NSF awards used WWT or WWTA for their outreach component:

- PostDoctoral Research Fellowship: Philip Rosenfield, ([NSF 1501205](https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1501205&HistoricalAwards=false))
- PostDoctoral Research Fellowship: Abigail Vieregg, ([NSF 1103553](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1103553&HistoricalAwards=false))
- CAREER: Sharing Deep CMB Maps for Cosmological Discovery**,** John Kovac**,** ([NSF-CAREER 125535](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1255358&HistoricalAwards=false))
- The Massive Black Hole at the Center of the Galaxy and its Immediate Environment, Northwestern University ([AST-1109753](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1109753&HistoricalAwards=false))
- Management and Operation of the Virtual Astronomical Observatory, VAO Team ([AST-0834235](http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0834235&HistoricalAwards=false))


## Donate to WorldWide Telescope Ambassadors

[Support WWT Ambassadors directly](/donate) through the Harvard Campaign or Professor Goodman's Benefunder.