Project title: Dark Skies Outreach to Sub-Saharan Africa, USA/Africa Project leader: Dr. Connie Walker We propose to optimize and implement the successful Dark Sky Rangers / GLOBE at Night citizen scientist program in 12-15 sub-Saharan African countries. The GLOBE at Night program, hosted by the U.S. National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), is an international citizen-science […]
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Project title: Network for Astronomy School Education (NASE), Africa Project leader: Prof. Rosa Ros NASE is a specific project for Secondary and Primary schools teachers. It is crucial to act before the university and research period in the curricula of children and teenagers. Hence it is necessary to educate teachers in astronomy topics. In general, […]
The main goal of NASE is to create a Local Working Group in Nairobi. This group of professors and teachers will be the active people (the trainers) that work with NASE in the future in order to teach courses in Kenya. We will train trainers during the NASE course. You will find here the official […]
Project title: Mathare Ambassadors of Astronomy, Nairobi, Kenya Project leader: Ms. Katarzyna Tekien Project Mathare Ambassadors of Astronomy aims at promoting astronomy among primary school teachers and students in the Mathare slum of Nairobi (Kenya) through improving their knowledge and skills, providing educational aids and creating the network of Mathare Ambassadors of Astronomy – a […]