Project leader: Jayanta Acharya, jayantaacharya@gmail.com Project location: Nepal Project Description: The massive earthquake in Nepal destroyed homes, schools, universities and other buildings. Investment will be required not only to rebuild infrastructure but also for psychosocial counseling to ensure that children are able to cope with the trauma and resume with their lives. Astronomy may help […]
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Project leader: Steph Dobrowolski, steph@solonfoundation.org Project location: Sierra Leone Project Description: Astronomy for Literacy (AFL) will work to enhance literacy, numeracy and other foundational skills among upto 1250 struggling junior secondary school students in Sierra Leone. It will do this by adapting and developing high quality curriculum resources across literacy, math and science. The goal […]
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 […]
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 […]