Hands-On Universe International

This site is dedicated to the communication among the
international HOU collaborators.

Global HOU News Paper: Steady Progress on United States Hands-On Universe by Carlton Pennypacker, Alan Gould, Vivian Hoette, and Patrick Miller GHOU2008 in Lisbon, Portugal, July 21 (Mon) to 24 (Thurs) 2008 It's advisable for people to arrive on the 18 July, and if you depart on the 27 July, that is after local Portuguese national events, local tours, and also some (activities/skills building) HOU workshop events. This year's GHOU is an official part of the Galileo Teacher Training Program of the International Astronomical Union. GHOU is one of the nodes for the International Year of Astronomy (IYA), which has been sanctioned by the UN General Assembly. Pre-meeting workshops, July 16 to July 18, will convene for learning new GHOU modules and lesson plans along with how to run a teacher workshop over the Internet (using Sightspeed Internet Conferencing, a minimal fossil fuel, Earth-friendly way to train teachers around the world).     Previous Global HOU Conferences 2007 Tokyo, Japan 2006 Provence, France 2005 Beijing, China 2004 St Petersburg, Russia 2002 Paris, France

If you are interested in hosting a Global HOU conference, write Carl Pennypacker. May 10-11, 2007. Hands-On-Universe Holds Teachers’ Workshop in Kenya. Excerpt: For high school students in the Republic of Kenya in Eastern Africa, star-gazing was enhanced by Hands-On-Universe (HOU), the international award-winning educational program. On May 10th and 11th, HOU held an Internet teleconference workshop for nearly a dozen teachers at Kenya High School, a national residency school for girls. This is the first HOU workshop to be held on the continent of Africa. ...“There are certain images and concepts that transcend backgrounds and capture everyone's imaginations. Turning a telescope to the sky opens that view to everyone and spurs them to learn more. The HOU program provides an excellent opportunity to continue and spread this activity and interest,” said George Smoot, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his own cosmological discoveries. Full article at Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics. See also first day video of the Kenya workshop (in "Carl" folder).

Global HOU Countries

Many nations share HOU in their schools and science centers.
Please visit their sites below and discover their activities and
how you might participate from your nation.

European Union Hands-On Universe

Click on the countries to reach their National websites.

Countries with pilot programs towards the implementation of HOU:  

Brazil	Georgia	Indonesia
Israel	Morocco	Senegal
South Africa	Thailand

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