Telescopes to Tanzania Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/telescopes-to-tanzania/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:41:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Telescopes to Tanzania Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/telescopes-to-tanzania/ 32 32 Paper presented at the GHOU conference https://astro4dev.org/paper-presented-at-the-ghou-conference/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:41:02 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=10395 You can  download here a published paper presented at the Discover the Cosmos / GHOU Conference in Volos, Greece on August 2nd-4th 2013 describing the activities of Telescope to Tanzania.

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]]> Eclipse day (3 November 2013) https://astro4dev.org/eclipse-day-3-november-2013/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:40:29 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=10391 It was a cloudy day — even a thunderstorm just before first contact was to occur. Then — a hole opened in the sky just at the right time. (See attached photos.) and we saw 75% of the sun obscured by the moon. We hosted more than 300 students, teachers, villagers, and local leaders at [...]

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]]> News from Arusha, Tanzania https://astro4dev.org/news-from-arusha-tanzania/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:39:03 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=10383 The Ruehle’s write from Tanzania as the second week ends The first week ends: some photos of the training sessions

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]]> Description of the project https://astro4dev.org/telescopes-to-tanzania-description-of-the-project/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 16:28:42 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=10369 UNAWE Tanzania and Telescopes to Tanzania collaborate to promote Astronomy and Science Education in Tanzania We offer teacher workshops to develop inquiry and hands-on teaching models, We donate telescopes and other science material to schools, We work in schools for events like the 3 November Solar Eclipse, We create and translate materials from English into [...]

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