Day 2: Instructors workshop for the “Astronomy in Ghana” OAD project.
Sessions:
Sessions:
- Our Place in the Universe
- Telescopes
- GRAO and Careers
Sessions:
Sessions:
The PRAGSAC Outreach team had a special Girls only Astronomy club session on Friday 15th February at the Kuntunse cluster of schools. Theme : Let’s inspire our young women to reach for the stars!
The presentation was on “The importance of astronomy to Ghana. The students and teachers were excited to learn more about astronomy. Also present was the Municipal Director of Education for Awutu Senya East, Ms Faustina Alimatu Braimah. At the end of the presentation, the Municipal Director of Education inaugurated the astronomy club for the school.
Club monitoring and evaluation 2 The PRAGSAC team visited St Mary’s Anglican Basic A&B school in the Central Region during their Astronomy Club Session.
The PRAGSAC team took part in the Eratosthenes’s experiment March, 2019 (measure radius of the Earth using the sun’s shadow) with Jerremite International School, West Legon and Unity Baptist Academy School, Achimota Ghana astronomy club members in a worldwide experiment.
PRAGSAC patrons workshop was organised to train the teachers(patrons) who will run the astronomy clubs.