Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
2022, Bringing Radio Astronomy To Classrooms with Affordable Radio Telescopes, OAD Projects, Sub-Saharan Africa
Hands-on Radio Astronomy Training for University Lecturers
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The workshop will conduct hands-on training sessions on the assembly of a 21-cm pyramidal horn antenna radio telescope, observation planning and execution, and the use of python-based software for the acquisition, reduction, analysis of data from the telescope. Organised by NASRDA- Centre for Basic Space Sciences, Nigeria. It will introduce participants to python programming and […]
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From the Innovative Astronomy Forum The basic sciences provide the essential means to meet crucial challenges such as universal access to food, energy, health coverage and communication technologies. They enable us to understand the impact of the nearly 8 billion people on the planet and to act to limit, and sometimes even to reduce it: […]
2021, Central and South Asia, Empowerment of Disadvantaged Rural Girl Children as Social Change Agents through Basic Education in Astronomy.
Project Trains Girls as Change Makers
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The project targeted girl children from disadvantaged, rural communities in Dindigul, India and nurtured them as social change agents. The aim was to create first generation social change makers who can influence their family and society in bringing down the superstition and improving the gender condition in society. The project formed 10 school clubs for […]
2021, Elimisha Msichana. Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia, Sub-Saharan Africa
Project Improves Girls Enrollment in Rural Kenya
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The Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA) project, Swahili for ‘educate a girl child, educate the entire community with Astronomy’ or rather, society benefits when a girl is educated, supported by funding from the IAU-Office for Astronomy for Development, targets girls education issues in rural Kenya. The project used multiple interventions to tackle the […]