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3rd successful COMENIUS-funded Teacher Training Session - Torun, Poland |
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The 3rd COMENIUS-funded EU-HOU training session was held this may, in Torun, Poland, and has been very successful !
Despite the Swedish volcano eruption, 29 teachers from 13 European countries attended the session held at the Institute of Physics in Torun. In addition, HOU Staff consisted in 9 trainers, assisted by 12 persons from the Local Organising Committee.
The days consisted of a number of hands-on workshops and talks aimed at showing the educators freely available astronomical resources which can be used in their classrooms back home to help stimulate their pupil’s interest and enthusiasm in science.
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Global Hands-On Universe (GHOU) and Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) |
The first announcement for this year's GHOU conference has been announced. Held in Garching, Germany, Aug. 1-7 (inclusive), the conference will also include a teacher training workshop. Details can be found in the announcement below:
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Welsh High School turn their Village Hall into a Planetarium! |
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On Saturday, February 6, a village hall in the Welsh borders will become a planetarium for a night. |
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School students recover Martian companion using Faulkes Telescope |
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Two girls from Victoria College, Belfast, have recovered a unique asteroid that is one of a very rare class of companions to the planet Mars. Christina Larkin and Catherine O'Prey remotely controlled the 2-metre Faulkes Telescope North on the island of Maui,Hawaii, during a week's work experience at the Armagh Observatory. |
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The Naked Astronomer at Faulkes! |
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Fraser Lewis, PhD student at the Open University, and support astronomer for the Faulkes Telescope Project was recently lucky enough to be asked to take part in a ' Naked Astronomer' podcast. |
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Spotting planets in our Galaxy |
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On February 13th, the exoplanet XO-3b will transit its parent star, an event which can be observed from (large) amateur astronomers telescopes.
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