Project title: The fourth East African Astronomy Workshop Project leader: Dr. Pheneas Nkundabakura The series of workshops in Astronomy in East Africa began in 2009 during the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009). The first workshop was held in November 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya and was supported largely by the International Astronomical Union/ Teaching for Astronomy […]
The final report can be downloaded in pdf
Project location: Mongolia Project leader: Tuguldur Sukhbold, sukhbold@ucolick.org In Mongolia, astronomy is not part of the standard high school curriculum and only a few schools even address it as part of the physics class. In the whole country only a few schools have telescopes, but almost all of them are too old and unusable. Therefore, in order to promote the teaching […]
Project title: Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Project leader: Dr. Donald Lubowich The purpose of this project is to provide telescope observations and astronomy demonstrations for children, their siblings and adult family members staying at the Ronald McDonald Houses (RMH) of Chicagoland (RMH-Chicago) in conjunction the children’s […]
Below are images taken from the astronomy event at the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. It was clear at 4 pm but clouded up at 7:30. We used hands-on optics cardboard tube telescopes, used STARburst candy to simulate planetary formation, and had a family do a scale model of the solar system. [nggallery id=65]
