Jasmin Evans, the project leader of ‘Touching space: accessible astronomy’ won the 2017 Early Career Physics Communicator Award from the IOP’s Physics Communicators Group. In her presentation, Jasmin talked about various outreach events she had been involved in, including her Touching Space project. Touching Space was set up to work with local charities to bring astronomy to […]
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The IAU-Office of Astronomy for Development’s (OAD) sixth annual call for proposals has concluded and 16 projects have been selected to receive funding in 2018. The OAD call for proposals in 2017 was conducted in two stages. A total of 114 applications were received at stage 1 from which 40 were selected to proceed to […]
The project has produced a number of articles that have been picked up by the press + interviews have been given by SAB. News articles
News article: http://www.alhaya.ps/arch_page.php?nid=309087 Promo video for the Gaza Techno Apps Challenge [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSGDVRZLrjI[/embedyt] TV interview [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SccxR2dOsO4[/embedyt]
GATA Challenge brought together groups of amateurs and professional astronomers and computer programmers, designers, storywriters etc to develop technological applications that support astronomical cultural content in Arabic language. The project invited inter-disciplinary teams for an open competition to innovate on a technological means. About 100 applications were received from which 12 teams were shortlisted. A pre-event was […]
