Over 100 children from Leonardo da Vinci
school in Vicuña, Colegio Español Coquimbo,
and a local language school, gather at the Alfa
Aldea planetarium in Vicuña to listen to science
talks provided by the University of La Serena
and Gemini.
Staff from both Gemini and the Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory presented concurrent
portable planetarium programs. Here, 3rd graders
prepare to enter one of the domes.
At the public library in the Mall
Plaza La Serena, teachers had the
opportunity to assemble and use a
“Galileoscope.” Here, educator Jorge
Muñoz and a few of the participating
teachers turn their recently
assembled telescopes on the sky.
Gemini’s career brochure was distributed to more
than 3,000 students during their Viaje al Universo
week. Here a girl and her classmates read about
the variety of career opportunities available at
astronomical observatories.
Gemini South science staff’s Juan Madrid leads
an interactive session at Colegio San Joaquín
on “A Journey into Stellar Clusters” for 7th and 8th
grade students and teachers.
January 2015
2014 Year in Review
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