On Saturday, 6th May 2023, the Elementary Launch of CanSat Ghana commenced at the KNUST’s Engineering Department. CanSat Ghana is a foundation focused on helping Ghana develop its space sector through building experimental satellites (CanSats). A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite, integrated within the volume and shape of a soft drinks can. […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
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Join scientists for a 24-hour online event around the globe 5 June – 5:00 GMT / 6 June – 5:00 GMT How are scientists paving the way to the collective progress towards sustainable development? How could they do better, and more? International scientific unions, research organizations, science academies, learned societies, and scientific networks involved in […]
2022, SciGirls - Empowering girls in science through astronomy, Sub-Saharan Africa
SciGirls Empowers Rural Girls As Leaders and STEM Advocates
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May
The SciGirls project aims to improve, in the long term, the gender gap in science, and the current lack of girls in STEM, by empowering secondary school girls from rural areas and their female science teachers using astronomy and its multidisciplinarity. The team organised a capacity-building workshop for 30 participants from different regions of Ethiopia, […]
2022, Bringing Radio Astronomy To Classrooms with Affordable Radio Telescopes, Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigerian Project Develops DIY, Low Cost Radio Telescope for Teaching
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May
May
This project developed an educational Do-IT-Yourself (DIY) low cost and portable hydrogen line radio telescope system for teaching radio astronomy techniques at university level in Nigeria. This telescope is capable of detecting and mapping the 21cm hydrogen line emission from the Milky Way Galaxy. The first phase of the project involved the preparation of a […]
2022, astrotourism, Beyond the Beach: Foundations for Caribbean Astrotourism, Latin America + Caribbean
Strengthening Connections Between Astronomy Observatory and Businesses
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May
May
The aim of this project was to better integrate astronomy into tourism endeavors happening on the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands to provide value added to existing businesses while providing a pipeline for students interested in the intersections between tourism and astronomy into these businesses as interns. Unfortunately, we discovered that […]