Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/ill-injured-children/ Astronomy for a better world! Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:13:19 +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 Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/ill-injured-children/ 32 32 Overview of the project https://astro4dev.org/astronomy-for-the-extremely-ill-or-traumatically-injured-children-and-their-families-usa/ Sun, 29 Dec 2013 16:13:19 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=4585 Project title: Astronomy for the extremely ill or traumatically injured children and their families, USA Project leader: Dr. Donald Lubowich The purpose of this project is to provide telescope observations and astronomy demonstrations for children, their siblings and adult family members staying at the Ronald McDonald Houses (RMH) of Chicagoland (RMH-Chicago) in conjunction the children’s [...]

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]]> RMH event December 2013 https://astro4dev.org/rmh-event-december-2013/ Sat, 28 Dec 2013 17:10:11 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=9201 Below are images taken from the astronomy event at the Ronald McDonald House in Chicago. It was clear at 4 pm but clouded up at 7:30. We used hands-on optics cardboard tube telescopes, used STARburst candy to simulate planetary formation, and had a family do a scale model of the solar system. [nggallery id=65]

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]]> Training at RMH 3rd September 2013 https://astro4dev.org/training-at-rmh-3rd-september-2013/ Thu, 12 Sep 2013 07:38:40 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=8439 [nggallery id=49] Here are a few images from the 3rd September 2013 event that took place at the Ronald McDonald House near University of Chicago Comer Children’s Hospital. The project leader, Dr. David Lubowich, is in a black glow-in-the-dark tee shirt with the Moon on the front. In the blue shirt, David Singer, a Ronald [...]

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