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 […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
The Solving problems and cosmic exploration (S.P.A.C.E.) is a programme that aims to develop problem solving skills and stimulate creativity through various challenges that are presented within an astronomy context. The S.P.A.C.E. programme includes workshops, science shows, games, public busking etc. Please note that the programme is still on-going. Some of the highlights of the […]
We organized a Astronomy Activities for the Earthquake affected students in three different places Gorkha, Nuwakot and Kathmandu most earthquake affected district in Nepal. there was 8.2 magnitude earthquake last year 2015, and Hundreds of thousands of people their school going children were made homeless with entire villages flattened, across many districts of the country by the earthquake last […]
FAWSA will provide a platform for astrophysics knowledge sharing, triggering collaborations between fellow Arab astrophysicists, and building a strong professional Arab community in the field. The scope of the winter school covers the following fields: • Solar System and Exoplanets • Solar Physics • Galactic Astronomy: Stars, Stellar Clusters, Nebulae, SNR and ISM • Extragalactic Astronomy: Galaxy […]
So far, “Development of Astro Tourism in South West Asia” project has been run during 5 months, March-July 2016. We have studied the situation with Astronomical Tourism in the world to extend it to our area with perspective of its development. Astro Tourism is part of the Scientific Tourism. In March-June 2016, a number of visits by […]
