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Applications are now being accepted for ACEAP 2020
This program, in its sixth year, brings amateur astronomers, planetarium personnel, and astronomy formal and informal educators to U.S.-funded astronomy observatories in Chile. While there, ambassadors receive behind-the-scenes tours of some of the world’s most...
Chile: connecting to the cosmos.
Our 2019 Ambassador, Carla Johns has written this interesting article published in the magazine "Reflector" by the Astronomical League (page 18). I invite you all to marvel at Carla's adventure during her trip through the observatories in northern Chile. Northern...
IDATA around the world.
IDATA is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and brings together blind and visually impaired (BVI) and sighted high school students and their teachers to create a fully accessible astronomy data request, retrieval and analysis software tool. Students...
Astronomy ambassadors to Chile: ALMA radio telescope
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? These questions are as old as humankind. The search for answers impels many quests, for example, the painter Gauguin’s voyage to Tahiti … and astronomers to the remote Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes....
Planetarium director attends Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program
Amy Barraclough, the director of the Fredric and Jean Edelman Planetarium, represented Rowan University on the international stage this summer through the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program (ACEAP). Barraclough participated in a nine-day Chile expedition...
Inclusive Astronomy 2 Conference: October 14-15 2019
The Inclusive Astronomy 2 Conference will be held at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD on October 14-15, 2019. It has been four years since the 2015 Nashville Inclusive Astronomy meeting, an event that brought astronomers together with...
Big Kid Science offers a Spanish-language version Totality app
With perfect timing for the total solar eclipse in Chile on July 2nd, Big Kid Science has updated their Totality app for the Spanish-language community. And its totally FREE! Big Kid Science is an educational company founded by the astrophysicist Dr. Jeffrey Bennett....
IDATA Wins the Public Choice Award
Innovators that Develop Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA) won the Public Choice award in the 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase. IDATA consists of software that was developed through the integration of science, mathematics, technology and engineering that allows...
How Astronomy Can Help the Chilean Economy
Recently, Florian Kaefer wrote about Chile's potential for economic development through astronomy for the Place Brand Observer. Dr Luis Chavarría, Director of the Astronomy Program at the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research CONICYT, shares...
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