Project leader: Marcela Canada-Assandri, micanada03@casleo.gov.ar Project location: Argentina Project Description: The project will develop two different games that allow kids to learn about Planetary Systems. The first one, meant for younger children, consists of a board game based on the voyage of the New Horizons spacecraft. By playing the game, students will learn basic concepts […]
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Project leader: Shahjahan Mridha, s_mridha238@yahoo.com Project location: Bangladesh Project Description: A pilot astronomy project will develop an Astronomy Outreach Center in Bangladesh. The Center will be the first of its kind in Bangladesh and aspires to fulfill two goals cited in the IAU Strategic Plan: – the role of astronomy in promoting global tolerance and […]
Project leader: Yannick Libert, ylibert@ast.uct.ac.za Project location: Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius (with Agalega, Rodrigues, Saint Brandon), Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia Project Description: The Radio Astronomy for Education project aims to support human capacity development in Africa and work toward training the valuable assets needed to reach the ambitious goal of Square Kilometer […]
Project leader: Raid M Suleiman, rsuleiman@cfa.harvard.edu Project location: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia Project Description: The main objective of this project is to start building an infrastructure of solid graduate […]
Project leader: Jose H. Pena, jhpena@astro.unam.mx Project location: All countries in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Project Description: In Latin America, there is great enthusiasm for astronomy and interest in developing local observatories, but there are few astronomers in these countries able to develop new talents. In 2007, members of the Astronomy Institute at Mexico’s […]