Report of the Astrolab project for the period July 2015 – June 2016 Michèle Gerbaldi and Jean-Pierre De Greve The 5th EAAS workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 29 June – 1 July 2015: Simpemba, Copperbelt University, Zambia, gave a presentation on ‘Experiences of the Starlight in the university lab’. The planned training sessions of M. […]
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A report on the Regional Astronomy Workshop on Astronomy Data Analysis School 07 – 18 November 2016 Copperbelt University (CBU), Kitwe – Zambia At Copperbelt University, (CBU, Kitwe – Zambia), the students in Pure Physics and Physics with Education have an Introductory Astronomy course as compulsory at second year of their programme. For the Physics […]
The teaching radio interferometer project was presented at the Botswana International University of Science and Technology and the project leader contributed to erect one at the University. A lot of students and staff, were all very keen to help and participate to the project. A long list of contacts were collected that will contribute as […]
The AstroBus-Ethiopia project is fairly well following the proposed timeline. For most of the time since February 2016, the group regularly held skype meetings and developed a system that helps organize the different activities. We used wiggio.com to manage our unstructured conversations among the group and google docs for documenting all structured tasks. As a […]
Through the generous support of the Office of Astronomy for Development (OAD), Astronomy for Literacy (AFL) is working to enhance literacy, numeracy and other foundational skills among struggling junior secondary school students in Sierra Leone. The AFL project has developed detailed, highly structured lesson plans that enable relatively low-skilled teachers with limited subject knowledge to […]