Happy New Year! IYA Ends, But The Spirit Lives On! January 1, 2010
Posted by jcconwell in Astronomy, IYA 2009, Podcast, telescopes.Tags: EIU, International Year of Astronomy, IYA 2009, Podcast, telescope
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Happy new year. While 2009 the International Year of Astronomy is Over , several project live on. One of these is the podcast, 365 Days of Astronomy . The Physics department has sponsored 12 of these in the last year, and we hope to sponsor 12 more in 2010.
Here at EIU we have many local projects, one is ongoing even as I speak. The Astronomy Club has finished putting together 13 Galileoscopes. Five of these are being delivered by Julia Novotny ( and astronomy option physics major), in cooperation with the Newman Center Haiti Connection, to schools near Barasa, Haiti.
Hannah, Bob, Josh, Julia, and Tiandra with telescopes for schools
Five more will be assembled next semester, for a total of 13, to the the Carl Sandburg school, here in Charleston, Illinois
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