Hands-on Universe Africa: April 2014

Monday, April 7, 2014

Celestial events to watch out for in 2014

This year presents us an entire array of amazing night sky events to dazzle all skywatchers across the spectrum.
The infographic below lists some of these rare spectacles.

For more resources on all these, go to http://t.co/F0XNvptPCW for detailed explanations of the infographic. We would also like to invite everyone out there who is interested to contribute to our astronomy images gallery. If you take a "share worthy" night-sky picture please send images and comments (including your name and the photo's location) to us at africahoukenya@gmail.com. Keep looking up!

About Hands - on Universe Africa

Hands-on Universe Africa, Africa HOU is an organization dedicated to promoting science and technology in Africa using Astronomy tools. Our curricula focuses on interactive astronomy and its role in promoting science education in the classroom. Africa HOU is a registered organization in Kenya.

Astronomy can be used as a vehicle to spark scientific curiosity and intrigue. It promotes not only science education but also culture. Through simple science experiments, students are encouraged to try and solve answers. We encourage our students to build their own scientific research projects in an effort to reduce the gap between university students and high school students

Astronomy HOU clubs in schools

This year is the International Year of Astronomy. One of our aims as hands-on Universe Africa is to set up as many Astronomy clubs in the kenyan High schools and primary schools. We will help the students come up with activities and support exchange programs between schools in Kenya and other schools in other countries.

Schools that have so far started setting up astronomy clubs are Kenya High school and Nairobi school. We will have more astronomy clubs in other high schools in Kenya.

The clubs will have their own blogs which we will attach to our blog. Keep visiting our blog for more information.