Astronomy returns to the Canary classrooms

18/10/2018 
The IAC and the Department of Education and Universities of the Government of the Canaries are collaborating in various training activities for Canarian teachers, which will be set in action in the coming weeks. The aim of these activities is to spread knowledge about the quality and the astronomical possibilities of our sky among the school students in the Islands, and in the educational community in general, while at the same time encouraging scientific and technological vocations in this field. The collaboration includes training within PETeR, an educational project of the IAC which allows students and teachers to observe the universe and develop their own scientific research with the same tools as those used by the international scientific community: professional robotic telescopes.  >> Read more