PROMOTING ASTRONOMY IN GHANA THROUGH SCHOOLS VISITS AND ASTRONOMY CLUBS (PRAGSAC) IN COLLABORATION WITH THE GHANA SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE (GSSTI) OF THE GHANA ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (GAEC) PRESENTS: OAD-OAE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM 2023 FOR TEACHERS FROM THE SCHOOLS OF THE BLIND AND THE DEAF IN GHANA SUMMARY: Teaching astronomy to exceptional individuals, including…
AstroPhy Ghana 2023 was a one-week, residential radio astronomy training school in Ghana. It focused on Astronomy Instrumentation and Observations Techniques targeting undergraduate and graduate university students. Its objective was to equip students with skills in Python programming, astronomical technical instrumentation, data reduction, analysis, and observational techniques. The primary aim of AstroPhy was to introduce students…
Part I: Inter-schools Astronomy Quiz Competition The Astronomy in Ghana project climaxed with a quiz competition amongst the six clubs formed, where St. Martha’s Catholic Basic “B” School emerged as the winners. As part of the Inter-School quiz competition, an exhibition was held to assess students’ creative skills in modeling the 32-meter Ghana radio telescope….
Educational visit to the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory (GRAO) The school astronomy clubs visited the Ghana Radio Astronomy Observatory at Kutunse in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. The students and the patrons had the opportunity to climb up the 32 m Radio Telescope , learn about the parts and functions of the Telescope, the…
Day 2: Sessions were on the EM Spectrum, Telescopes and Satellites.
Day 1: Sessions were on Scientific Method, Earth, Moon, sun and eclipse, solar system and Galaxies. Presentation was done by the PRAGSAC team and activities were carried out with the patrons at the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute (GSSTI).
PRAGSAC patrons workshop was organised to train the teachers(patrons) who will run the astronomy clubs.
