The Travelling Telescope is a project that focuses on promoting Astronomy in Africa. From January 2015 our team started an outreach astronomy project in rural coastal Kenya visiting schools and teaching students. We recruited university students from the University of Nairobi with degrees in Astronomy & Physics. After interviews to determine we had picked a team of enthusiasts we […]
Category Archives: 2015
Constellation is a year long program of astronomy activities, carried out in 20 schools located in 6 countries across South America. The schools are connected through GalileoMobile’s online platform and through social media, so that they can exchange their thoughts and experiences. The activity cycle, called “Space Exploration” was planned, written in a handbook form and translated in Spanish and […]
The McGill Space Explorers program (formerly Adopt an Astronomer ) has been very active since September 2015. For the past four months, a group of volunteers in the Department of Physics at McGill has been planning and facilitating inquiry-based physics and astronomy lessons to be delivered in primary schools. The volunteers have been paired with classrooms (grades 4 to […]
Online workshop for worldwide francophone teachers, offered by Discover the Univers/À la découverte de l’Univers As planned, the online workshop was offered between November 9th and 27th 2015. We had a total of 176 participants from 11 countries on 3 continents. Not all participants were very active, as in all free online workshops, but a […]
Goal NIATW was addressed to advanced students and researchers, mainly from South-East Asian countries where such training opportunities and adequate facilities are not always readily available. The focus of this first NIATW was about time-variable phenomena in Astrophysics, with emphasis on short time scales from days to sub-seconds. Examples are: stellar pulsation, oscillations, occultations, transits, […]