Who want to be a weather forecast? Education and public outreach at LaMMA Consortium, home of Tuscany weather service

Research institutions can play an important role in the overall educations system. This paper aims at presenting educational and public outreach activities in the field of meteorology carried out by LaMMA, a public consortium set up by Italian National Research Council and Tuscany Region (Italy), in charge of the official weather service for Tuscany. Here a description of the activities and different learning opportunities is provided. The paper also presents the results of the evaluation survey carried out to assess the quality of the learning activities offered to schools. Moreover the survey had the goal to collect feedbacks from pupils about interest, efficacy and satisfaction about the education proposal. The high numbers of pupils reached, about 1500 in 2011­12 visiting LaMMA Consortium, and the evaluation results, confirm the great interest and importance of educational activities provided by science centres at local level. Keywords: science education; education in meteorology; outreach; evaluation