Project leader: Fabio Del Sordo, fadiesis@gmail.com Project location: South America Project description: GalileoMobile (GM, www.galileo-mobile.org) is a non-profit, itinerant education initiative that brings Astronomy to young people in areas with limited access to outreach programmes. Started in 2009 by a group of volunteers, it now performs astronomy-related activities in schools and communities all over the […]
Monthly Archives: March 2015
Project leader: Susan Oduori, smurabana@gmail.com Project location: Kenya Project description: The goal of the Traveling telescope is to promote science learning to a wide range of Kenyan schools in various locations exchanging knowledge about the sky through direct observations of celestial bodies using state of the art telescopes. In addition to direct observing we also teach […]
Project leader: Mponda Malozo, mponda.malozo@gmail.com Project location: Tanzania Project description: Astro-Science Ambassadors are science teachers trained to teach using astronomy as a tool for inquiry based science education in Tanzania. These ambassadors participated in a training workshop which designed to develop astro-science curriculum activities in line with science syllabuses of the United Republic of Tanzania. […]
Project leader: Michael Backes, mbackes@unam.na Project location: Windhoek, Namibia Project description: This project is centered on purchasing an optical camera for the use with a 14-inch telescope in Windhoek, Namibia. Namibia is home to the world’s largest gamma-ray experiment, the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) project. Also, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope will partly […]
Project leader: Raka Dabhade, rakadabhade@gmail.com Project location: Pune India Project description: The TARA Observatory is a unique project which proposes to combine a highly configurable robotic telescope array with an innovative sensor array network. TARA is an Indian word for a Star and also an ancient ceremonial site in Ireland with astronomical roots, hence it […]