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McGill Physics Space Explorers Program: Final report

Ram Venugopal — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:33:08 +0000

The McGill Space Explorers program (formerly Adopt an Astronomer ) has become an established program in the community. We have a steady partnership with several local primary schools, with a focus on under-resourced schools. Pairs of volunteers from the physics department visit classrooms (grades 4-6, ages 9-12) on average 5 times over the course of the school year. During [...]

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Update

Ram Venugopal — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 07:53:41 +0000

The McGill Space Explorers program (formerly Adopt an Astronomer ) has been very active since September 2015. For the past four months, a group of volunteers in the Department of Physics at McGill has been planning and facilitating inquiry-based physics and astronomy lessons to be delivered in primary schools. The volunteers have been paired with classrooms (grades 4 to [...]

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Overview of the project

Ram Venugopal — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:00:29 +0000

Project leader: Sebastien Guillot, guillots@physics.mcgill.ca Project location: Quebec, Canada Project description: AstroMcGill, the astronomy outreach group at McGill University, will organise a new program called “Adopt an Astronomer”. This program will send McGill University’s young professional astronomers (graduate students or post-doctoral researchers) to primary school classrooms around Québec, multiple times a year. In other words, [...]

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