{"id":9153,"date":"2021-07-16T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=9153"},"modified":"2021-07-21T16:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T08:05:55","slug":"iau-announces-telescopes-for-all-2021-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2021\/07\/iau-announces-telescopes-for-all-2021-results\/","title":{"rendered":"IAU Announces Telescopes for All 2021 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach<\/strong> along with our partners IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO), Stars Shine for Everyone (Sterren Schitteren voor Iedereen, SSVI) and the University of Leiden are pleased to announce the awardees of the 2021 Telescopes for All project. By sending each awardees a telescope, the project seeks to broaden the horizons of children, parents and educators alike to spark an interest in science, and promote equal opportunities for pursuing a career in astronomy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The 2021 project received 225 applications from 54 countries with the active support of the IAU National Outreach Coordinators (NOCs). The selected proposals will bring telescopes to socially deprived communities in Poland; help tackle educational disparities and improving access to STEM for women and girls in Botswana and Mauritius; reach rural areas in Malaysia; and refugee camps in Jordan, to name a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The telescopes have been awarded to the following proposals:<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Afghanistan, Kayhana Astronomical Group, Afghanistan<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Botswana, Machana Satellite School, Botswana<br>\u2022 Tomorrow\u2019s Stars (Astros do Amanh\u00e3), Leva Ci\u00eancia Institute (Instituto Nacional Leva Ci\u00eancia &#8211; INALC), Brazil<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Ghana, Tetteh-Ocloo School for the Deaf, Ghana<br>\u2022 Namma Telescope, Open Space Foundation (OSF), India<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Iraq, Freelance, Al-Muthanna University (Lecturer), Iraq<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Jordan, Jordanian Astronomical Society (JAS), Jordan<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Malaysia, SJKT JUGRA School, Malaysia<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Mauritius, Hindu Girls\u2019 College Astronomy Club, Mauritius<br>\u2022 Evening Meetings With Astronomy, Grupa Edukacji Astronomicznej na Czarnej Hucie (The Black Ironworks Astronomical Education Group), Poland<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Samoa, Tiapapata Art Centre, Samoa<br>\u2022 Telescopes for All in Timor Leste, Knua Sentr\u00e1l ba Pr\u00e1tika Si\u00e9nsia no Matem\u00e1tika (KSP), East Timor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>News Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iau.org\/public\/oao\/\">IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach along with our partners IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[80,414,283,319],"class_list":["post-9153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-iau","tag-iau-office-for-astronomy-outreach","tag-noc","tag-telescopes-for-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}