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Community Astronomy Program in Remote Honduras

Ram Venugopal — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:11:42 +0000

The project set up an educational program in the remote community of El Rincón in Honduras. Residents of El Rincón live in conditions of extreme poverty with little access to education. Nearly all families work on coffee fields, including young children, who are expected to help their families. The program delivered in-person and online activities [...]

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update: Final report

Ram Venugopal — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 04:47:21 +0000

The third GUAtemalan School of Astrophysics (GUASA) was held in Guatemala City and it was on Compact Objects under the motto: Compact Objects: Neutron Stars, White Dwarfs and Black Holes. The school aimed to bring together local Central American/Caribbean undergraduate students of physics /mathematics /engineering, with experts from prestigious astronomical institutions from around the world. [...]

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Overview of Project

Ram Venugopal — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 07:54:17 +0000

Our project aims to address two significant challenges, one academic and one aimed for the general public. Guatemala, along with many countries of the Central American/Caribbean region, lacks of a solid and well consolidated program of astronomy/astrophysics at Graduate level. The challenge that the GUASA school aims, is to trigger the change needed to improve [...]

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Overview of Project

Ram Venugopal — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 08:52:56 +0000

The “Summer Workshop on Radio Astrophysics, Tonantzintla 2017” will introduce the topic of Radio Astrophysics to students in the last year of careers in Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, and related fields. The registration will be open to students from Mexican and Central/South American institutions. Our main motivation to promote this specific area is the recent beginning [...]

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Update

Ram Venugopal — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:03:48 +0000

The following bulletin update has been translated from http://www.inaoep.mx/noticias/?noticia=363&anio=2016 For the ninth consecutive year, young people from many different countries came together in Tonantzintla, Puebla, Mexico for ESAOBELA, which was, this year, dedicated to Dr. Eugenio Mendoza Villarreal, one of the pillars of Mexican astrophysics. ESAOBELA, which begin on Sunday 10th January, brings together for a [...]

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Final report

Ram Venugopal — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 09:27:13 +0000

the final report can be downloaded as PDF

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Update

Ram Venugopal — Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:33:13 +0000

We are happy to report that all the goals for the Project were reached without any problems. The weekly astronomy radio show “Obsesión por el Cielo” will continue to be freely available to everyone in podcast format through our provider, PodBean, for the next three years. We also secured the “obsesionporelcielo.net” domain name which we used to open a [...]

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Overview of the project (2016)

Ram Venugopal — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:23:10 +0000

Project leader: Jose H. Pena, jhpena@astro.unam.mx Project location: All countries in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru Project Description: In Latin America, there is great enthusiasm for astronomy and interest in developing local observatories, but there are few astronomers in these countries able to develop new talents. In 2007, members of the Astronomy Institute at Mexico’s [...]

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Overview of the project

Ram Venugopal — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 14:16:30 +0000

Project leader: Pedro Valdés, pedro.valdes@udem.edu Project location: Mexico Project description: “Obsesión por el Cielo” (Obsession for the Sky) is a weekly radio show where we talk about astronomy and space exploration. It is broadcasted live on the radio station of the Universidad de Monterrey, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey in Mexico. It can also [...]

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Project update: UNAWE-UNESCO MOBIL / Proyecto Miradas

Ram Venugopal — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:50:58 +0000

UNAWE-UNESCO Mobil, otherwise known as Proyecto Miradas, had a very successful tour through Central America, visiting 6 countries and reaching over 200 teachers and 444 children. The poster below gives an impression of their activities in Central America. View the gallery below for photos of the activities organized by Proyecto Miradas in Central America: The UNAWE-UNESCO Mobil [...]

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