Category Archives: TF3 funded projects

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Project leader: Chad Moore, chad_moore@nps.gov Project location: United States Project description: The United States National Park Service (NPS) aims to create an internship for a current astronomy student or recent astronomy graduate to develop their leadership in astronomy communication while simultaneously enhancing the public outreach programs of the parks. Over the course three months, the […]

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Project leader: Quang Nguyen Luong, quang.nguyen-luong@nao.ac.jp Project location: Vietnam Project description: The last two IAU grants has done something that is unprecedented: we manage to get the entire amateur astronomy communities together to work together and enjoy astronomy together. The two annual meetings have attracted almost 100 participants from more than 10 cities each times. […]

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Project leader: Kathan Kothari, kathankothari@gmail.com Project location: India Project description: Manthan Educational Programme Society, India is a not for profit organisation focused to ameliorate and instill fresh methods in science communication and entrepreneurship amongst students and community at large. (www.mepsindia.org). During IYA 2009, Manthan worked on a project ‘Astronomy on Camel Cart’ during 100 Hours […]

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Project leader: Telma Esperança, telmaesperanca@fis.uc.pt Project location: Portugal Project description: Portugal is currently going through a deep and serious economic crisis that affects the elderly as well – their economic condition suffered a change and they are easily forgot by the society. In a country in which agriculture was once the maintaining source of the […]

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Project leader: Bing Li, libing@bjp.org.cn Project location: China Project description: Our ancestors were closer to the night sky than we are. Celestial objects are mentioned in many Chinese ancient poems. But few people know them when they recite the poetry. The sky nearly never changes. We see the same sky as Li Bai, a Chinese famous […]