Project title: Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Project leader: Dr. Donald Lubowich The purpose of this project is to provide telescope observations and astronomy demonstrations for children, their siblings and adult family members staying at the Ronald McDonald Houses (RMH) of Chicagoland (RMH-Chicago) in conjunction the children’s […]
Monthly Archives: December 2013
Below are images taken from the astronomy event at the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. It was clear at 4 pm but clouded up at 7:30. We used hands-on optics cardboard tube telescopes, used STARburst candy to simulate planetary formation, and had a family do a scale model of the solar system. [nggallery id=65]
Today South Africans will wake up with heavy hearts as we mourn the passing of Madiba. We will fly flags at half mast and we will have moments of silence before official gatherings. We will weep openly outside his home and we will fight back tears in our places of work. We will remember where […]