global Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/global/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:20:28 +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 global Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/global/ 32 32 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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]]> Promoting Women in STEM Through Storytelling and Mentorship https://astro4dev.org/promoting-women-in-stem-through-storytelling-and-mentorship/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:58:17 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24149 She Speaks Science aims to promote women in STEM and a positive STEM identity among the youth through storytelling and mentorship. The stories are published on an online platform showcasing women scientists and highlighting female role models in science to inspire more young people to engage in STEM disciplines. The stories have reached 35,000 people [...]

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]]> Astronomical Data Analysis Lecture Videos https://astro4dev.org/astronomical-data-analysis-lecture-videos/ Fri, 10 Sep 2021 10:40:26 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23752 The Astro Sprint project has completed two online astronomical data analysis workshops, “Enterprise” and “Discovery”, whose videos are now available on Youtube. Students can also take up virtual projects, mentored by an expert. There is a large amount of astronomy data available on the internet. The Astro Sprint OAD project teaches students techniques for accessing [...]

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]]> Astronomy Data Analysis Virtual Lectures https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-data-analysis-virtual-lectures/ Sat, 20 Mar 2021 14:32:01 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23966 ‘Astronomy from archival data’ introduced important concepts in astronomy, data analysis and methods to students through online sessions from 1 August-29 November 2020. The aim was to support students during a time of disruptions to education caused by COVID-19. Students were introduced to virtual observatory tools and programming techniques. From 927 registrations, more than 100 [...]

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]]> “Under the Same Stars” Online Campaign to Relieve Mental Stress https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-to-relieve-mental-stress/ Thu, 04 Mar 2021 14:28:34 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=24006 “Under the Same Stars” by Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) developed and launched a social media campaign to bring awareness that stargazing can uniquely aid in relieving some mental stress during a time of crisis. Their campaign effectively spread the specific messaging that we can all come together virtually and feel like a cohesive community regardless [...]

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]]> PENTA Mentorship Program for Women https://astro4dev.org/new-mentorship-program-penta/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:48:05 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=22047 PENTA is a 5-month mentorship program for women, organized by She Speaks Science. It is designed as a 5-by-5 matrix, with women selected across 5 regions (Africa, Latin & North America, Middle East, Europe, Asia) at 5 different career stages (executive, professional, university student, high schooler, schooler). Within this matrix of 25 women and girls, [...]

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]]> Overview: Interdisciplinary Radio Astronomy https://astro4dev.org/overview-interdisciplinary-radio-astronomy/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:57:34 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21991 The project will create a syllabus/teaching kit about radio astronomy with multidisciplinary characteristics useful for teaching of electronics, signal processing and astronomy to undergrad University level, based on SDR (Software Defined Radio). Radio astronomy is a technical field of astronomy with advanced electronic & signal processing techniques. Typical Radio-astronomy syllabi and existing teaching kits focus [...]

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]]> Overview: Astro Sprint https://astro4dev.org/overview-astro-sprint/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:20:48 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21969 As a result of disruption of regular classes due to COVID-19, UG and PG students are losing on precious time. In the present times, is an avalanche of high-quality astronomy data from various facilities, ground and space-based. As a pilot study, we had a Six-Day Astronomy Online School. With the help of short videos, we [...]

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]]> Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-43/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 13:58:19 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21432 The Supernova Foundation is a global, virtual mentoring programme for women in physics. We have nearly 50 senior women scientists who volunteer as mentors and about 90 women undergraduate and postgraduate students from around the world. Finding we were growing faster than we had administrative capacity to support, we received funding from the OAD to [...]

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]]> Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-42/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 14:22:37 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21358 SYSTEM Sounds is a sci-art outreach project that converts the rhythm and harmony of the cosmos into music and sound. In 2019 we engaged the general public through exhibits, public talks, and online videos. As part of our artist residency with the Ontario Science Centre (OSC) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) we created [...]

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