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SPACE CHENNAI - GAM 2020 - INTRODUCTION

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GLOBAL ASTRONOMY MONTH EVENT REPORT

City: Chennai

Date: 01/04/2020

Global Astronomy Month (GAM), organized in April every year by Astronomers Without Borders, is the world's largest global celebration of astronomy. For this year, SPACE has suggested several GAM events for conduction by SPACE associated schools.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Total number of participants expected 1000
Number of activities 20
The teachers, parents and the school motivated the students to make use of this international opportunity provided by SPACE in India.
All the events organized are completely online and the participants can participate safely from their residence itself.
Various events are organized with online discussions, interactions, explaining the science through videos and presentations for better understanding of the participants.

GAM 2020 A3 Poster

SPACE Chennai conducted the following activities through online and the dates are listed below.

S.NO	DATE	NAME OF THE EVENT	DESCRIPTION
1	April 1	GAM Introduction	Online/video – Social Media
2	April 3	Venus Meets the Pleiades	Personal Observing Event through video explanation and stellarium images guide will be posted for personal observation
3	April 6	Astro Poetry Contest	Grade 6 to 8 and 9 to 12
4	April 8	Supermoon: The Largest Full Moon of the Year	Online Observing and personal observing Event video explanation and the photographs of Supermoon can be taken and submitted.
5	April 10	Imagining Black Holes through AstroCraft	Students of grade 6 to 9 will make prototype of a Blackhole through Astrocraft and Art and send us pictures of the same.
6	April 11	Lunar Astrophotography contest	Any school students can participate and capture the moon and send us.
7	April 12	Yuri’s Night	Humans achievement of journey to space - Celebration
8	April 13	Space quotes	Online event
9	April 14	Globe at Night – Light Pollution Awareness	Video/Online Discussion describing the light pollution and its effects and reduction measures.
10	April 15	Rover from home trash Competition	Grade 9 to 12 students can make their own rover with backyard and household junks and send us photographs.
11	April 16	Aryabhata honor	Featuring the celebration of 45^th Anniversary of India’s First Artificial Satellite.
12	April 17	Stellarium planetary alignment	Explaining Planetary alignment through simulated software Stellarium.
13	April 18	Stellarium software	Video Explanation of Stellarium software and its role for planning astronomical observations.
14	April 22	Lyrids meteor shower	Video Explanation regarding meteor showers, cause and origin and personal observation of Lyrids Meteor Showers.
15	April 24	Zero shadow day	Video Discussion explaining the science behind ZSD and the simple experiments and observations that can be performed during ZSD.
16	April 24	30 Years of Hubble	Featured Video of honoring Hubble’s 30 years achievement in space exploration with its amazing pictures captured.
17	April 26	Venus moon conjunction	People observed Venus and moon appearing closer in the sky and they captured photographs and shared with us.
18	April 28	Astronomers in making	Students of SPACE Astronomy club sharing their experience with SPACE India and their future plans of careers in Astronomy and Space Science.
19	April 29	Fake news alert of asteroid	Social media posting and Awareness among public.
20	April 30	Closing of GAM	Result Announcements and conclusion of GAM 2020

CONCLUSION:

The Global Astronomy Month was inaugurated online through various social media platforms and the events were discussed, all the students were motivated to participate in the events and celebrate GAM2020 in safe and interesting way.

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