A Peer-reviewed Open-access Astronomy Education Activities Platform 29 November 2013 A new platform for high-quality, peer-reviewed astronomy education activities has been launched by the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development at the ESA/Galileo Teachers Training Program Workshop, Leiden, Netherlands. astroEDU is a platform that allows educators to discover, review, distribute, improve and remix astronomy education […]
Author Archives: Ram Venugopal
Donate now to this project! http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/projects/telescopes-to-tanzania.html Background: Telescopes to Tanzania (TtoT), which the OAD is contributing towards, is a project under the aegis of Astronomers Without Borders (AWB, http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/). Since 2010, Universe Awareness (UNAWE, www.unawe.org) and Telescopes to Tanzania have collaborated on bringing astronomy-based science education to Tanzania. This collaboration has already produced many outcomes, among […]
You can download here a published paper presented at the Discover the Cosmos / GHOU Conference in Volos, Greece on August 2nd-4th 2013 describing the activities of Telescope to Tanzania.
It was a cloudy day — even a thunderstorm just before first contact was to occur. Then — a hole opened in the sky just at the right time. (See attached photos.) and we saw 75% of the sun obscured by the moon. We hosted more than 300 students, teachers, villagers, and local leaders at […]
[nggallery id=25] Recently, A 12 inch Cave Cassegrain telescope made the first leg of its journey – traveling from Streamwood, IL to Racine, WI it logged 85 miles of its 8500 mile destination to Tanzania. The Scope will be the main instrument in a roll-off observatory being built as part of a Center for Science […]