2021 Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/2021/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:34:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg 2021 Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/2021/ 32 32 Astronomy Video Series in Urdu Continues https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-video-series-in-urdu-continues/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:02:28 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26758 The Video Astronomy Lessons project continues to regularly publish short astronomy videos in Urdu targeted at children in Pakistan. The team recently published the latest video, episode 9 on Galaxies. A total of 10 episodes are being produced under this OAD funded project. The videos are made with the local context in mind, shot in [...]

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]]> Astronomy School Builds Capacity in Africa https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-school-builds-capacity-in-africa/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 09:03:07 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=27123 In late 2022, the Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (PASEA) was organised in Zambia, the fifth in the series of schools that started in 2013 as West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers (WAISSYA). Due to COVID-19, PASEA was rescheduled from October 2021 to October 2022. The Summer School eventually took place from 6th [...]

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]]> Project Trains Girls as Change Makers https://astro4dev.org/project-trains-girls-as-change-makers/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 12:59:44 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26481 The project targeted girl children from disadvantaged, rural communities in Dindigul, India and nurtured them as social change agents. The aim was to create first generation social change makers who can influence their family and society in bringing down the superstition and improving the gender condition in society. The project formed 10 school clubs for [...]

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]]> Project Improves Girls Enrollment in Rural Kenya https://astro4dev.org/project-improves-girls-enrollment-in-rural-kenya/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:08:29 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26467 The Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA) project, Swahili for ‘educate a girl child, educate the entire community with Astronomy’ or rather, society benefits when a girl is educated, supported by funding from the IAU-Office for Astronomy for Development, targets girls education issues in rural Kenya. The project used multiple interventions to tackle the [...]

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]]> Project Trains Students Worldwide Using Astronomy Archival Data https://astro4dev.org/project-trains-students-worldwide-using-astronomy-archival-data/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:04:20 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26283 Astrosprint is a follow up on the OAD funded project “Astronomy from Archival Data”, designed to engage and train undergraduate and postgraduate students during the pandemic when people were confined at home. The project had almost 1000 registrations from students belonging to almost 25 countries. Online sessions of 1.5 hours were conducted on weekends (Saturday [...]

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]]> Project Aims to Preserve Cultural Astronomy of Refugees in Uganda https://astro4dev.org/project-aims-to-preserve-cultural-astronomy-of-refugees-in-uganda/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 13:51:42 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24896 The aim of this project is to gather indigenous cultural astronomy, such as local names of celestial bodies and their meanings in day to day lives, from the people at the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda. The project will catalogue and provide a formal structure for storing and sharing this knowledge. And it will [...]

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]]> Astronomy to Create Scientific Culture Among School Students https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-to-create-scientific-culture-among-school-students/ Tue, 07 Jun 2022 11:49:28 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26363 The aim of the project was to use astronomy educational interventions to create a scientific culture among school students. It targeted students up to grade nine, teachers and amateur astronomers  07/02/2021 Astronomy seminar, Inauguration ceremony, Cooperative Seminar Hall , 8 hours, 73 participants 27/02/2021 Workshop on Basic Astronomy, Modern Commercial College, Jirat, 18 participants 21/03/2021 [...]

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]]> Brazilian Project Brings Together Astronomy, Indigenous Knowledge, and Culture https://astro4dev.org/brazilian-project-brings-together-astronomy-indigenous-knowledge-and-culture/ Sat, 07 May 2022 09:27:52 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26358 OruMbya (Orum, sky in Yorubá, and Mbya, a Brazilian Guarani ethnicity) is a pilot project to celebrate Astronomy as a fuel of life, in which the stories of the stars preserved in the resilience of people from three different continents have been shared over months, through scientific-cultural activities focused on the dissemination of knowledge, promotion [...]

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]]> Chilean Workshop Improves Student Learning https://astro4dev.org/chilean-workshop-improves-student-learning/ Thu, 05 May 2022 15:20:20 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26317 The project implemented the workshop “Crea tu propio asteroide” (Create your own asteroid) in a diverse collection of schools and locations. Most of the schools were public and located in small communities and towns along Chile, where astronomy is not a common topic in the scholar curriculum. Twenty public schools and 8 subsidized schools were selected [...]

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]]> Astronomy and Upskilling at a Nigerian Prison https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-and-upskilling-at-a-nigerian-prison/ Wed, 04 May 2022 11:28:44 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=26280 The Astro-prison project aimed to boost morale and create behavioural change among inmates at Nigerian prisons. It also wanted to provide practical job skills and improve literacy. was carried out in collaboration with CAPIO (Carmelite prisoners interest organization), Enugu State. The project was executed on 16, 17 and 20th of August, 2021. The planning of [...]

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