Project leader: Claudio Paulo, claudiompaulo@gmail.com Project location: Mozambique Project Description: JEDI.mz will be a workshop based on the Joint Exchange Development Initiative to be held in Mozambique aiming to expose young university lecturers and students to research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. This workshop will provide hand-on projects where the students can learn about radio astronomy, […]
Category Archives: Sub-Saharan Africa
Project leader: Michele Gerbaldi, gerbaldi@iap.fr Project location: Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia Project Description: In many countries in Africa there is still a large need for young people to get involved in science studies and research. We propose a cheap and attractive module to learn how to do science […]
Project leader: Samantha Bennett, samantha@saao.ac.za Project Location: South Africa Project Description: The SAAO (South African Astronomical Observatory) library wants to create astronomy awareness in our communities. The idea is to identify ten public libraries (5 per Province) per annum and create astronomy corners. This will be done in conjunction with the Department of Sports, Arts […]
Project leader Bonnie Thurber, b-thurber@northwestern.edu Project location: Digital: Chile, China, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, and the United States Project description: Using only the sunlight striking the Earth and a wooden dowel, students can measure the circumference of the earth. Eratosthenes did it over 2,000 years ago. In Cosmos, Carl Sagan shared the process by which Eratosthenes […]
Project leader: Susan Oduori, smurabana@gmail.com Project location: Kenya Project description: The goal of the Traveling telescope is to promote science learning to a wide range of Kenyan schools in various locations exchanging knowledge about the sky through direct observations of celestial bodies using state of the art telescopes. In addition to direct observing we also teach […]