Udomprasert, PatriciaGoodman, AlyssaWong, Curtis2018-06-062012Udomprasert, Patricia S., Alyssa A. Goodman, and Curtis Wong. 2012. WWT Ambassadors: WorldWide Telescope for Interactive Learning. In Connecting People to Science (Proceedings of the the 123rd annual meeting of the ASP, July 30–August 4, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland), ed. Joseph B. Jensen, James G. Manning, Michael G. Gibbs, and Doris Daou, 149-154. Orem, UT: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.97815838179649781583817971http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37086155In our presentation, we demonstrated some key features of the WorldWide Telescope (WWT). Here we describe the results of a WWT Ambassadors (WWTA) Pilot Study where volunteer Ambassadors helped sixth-graders use WWT during a six-week astronomy unit. The results of the study compare learning outcomes for 80 students who participated in WWTA and 70 students at the same school and grade who only used traditional learning materials. After the six-week unit, twice as many “WWT” as “non-WWT” students understood complex three dimensional orbital relationships; tremendous gains were seen in student performance in science overall, astronomy in particular, and even in using “real” telescopes. We describe plans for expansion of the WWTA program.en-USConference Paper2014-02-22Patricia S. Udomprasert, Alyssa A. Goodman, and Curtis Wong