A telescope for each high school in Mongolia Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/a-telescope-for-each-high-school-in-mongolia/ Astronomy for a better world! Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:57:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg A telescope for each high school in Mongolia Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/a-telescope-for-each-high-school-in-mongolia/ 32 32 Spreading science education, one telescope at a time https://astro4dev.org/spreading-science-education-one-telescope-at-a-time/ Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:57:43 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18334 The following article is from the website of University of California Santa Cruz, where one of the project coordinators is completing his graduate studies in astrophysics. By Peggy Townsend If not for a down-on-his luck Mongolian astronomer with a penchant for drinking, 44 schools in that rugged country might not have telescopes with which to peer [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview/ Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:21:39 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=14710 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 [...]

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