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Gemini and PIO in Brazil
Mariângela de Oliveira-Abans
Laboratório Nacional de AstrofísicaMinistério da Ciência e Tecnologia
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Gemini PIO Meeting, Hilo, Jul./Aug., 2003
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Main Issues
• Status in March 2002
• Activities in 2002
• Activities in 2003
• Good intentions
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Status in March 2002
• Teaching of Astronomy (ToA)
» Nation-wide projects
» LNA efforts
• Talks at schools,
universities, workshops
• 1700 visitors to the OPD
• science fairs, exhibits,
students, teachers
• Media contacts
» Each university and
institute
» LNA’s activities
• Press releases
• Gemini PRs
• Media consulting
• School textbooks
reviews
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Activities in 2002• Teaching of Astronomy
» Talks at schools, universities, workshops, congresses, etc.
» Student helping in school works and science fairs
» Organization of the Winter School of Itajubá for teachers
» Students and teachers at the OPD
» First steps towards a BR/CL teacher exchange program
• Media contacts
» Sci&Tech Ministry PIO Network
» 7 PR (G, planet alignment, Pluto’s occultation)
» New Director’s empowerment (Dr. Albert Bruch)
» Visit of Sci&Tech Minister
» Requested reviews of electronic news and texts (G)
» Info. on general astronomical phenomena
» Gemini news, positions and fellowships (we are NGO)
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Activities in 2002
• Other Activities
» Review of electronic news and texts for amateur and IAU Com. 46 Brazilian representative’s publications
» Public visitation at the OPD
» Senior students and final projects on Observatories
» Exhibit at the FRICI (Regional Industrial, Commercial and Touristy Fair of Itajubá)
» Exhibit at the 54th. SBPC and 10th. Expociência
» Exhibit at the I Display of Sci&Tech of Brazópolis
» Max Faúndez-Abans is now the Brazilian Gemini Project Manager
» LNA has increased the participation in G Newsletter
» We have engaged a nation-wide claim against a law project to turn astrologist into a profession!!!!
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Activities in 2003
• Media» 3 PR
» 2 students with scholarships in PIO and ToA (MEGALIT)
» New PIO and ToA web pages
» TV and web news interviews on eta Carinae during blackout
• Gemini affairs» Training of LNA’s staff
astronomers both in Gemini-N and Gemini-S instruments
» Full support to Brazilian astronomers requesting G telescope time (Phases I and II)
» Contribution to G Newsletter
» Part of every institutional presentation
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Activities in 2003
• Other activities» Review of MCT´s web
pages on Gemini and SOAR
» New PIO and ToA web pages
» New institutional indicators of PIO activities
» MCT´s exhibit at 11th Expociência/55th Annual Meeting of SBPC (Jul.)
» II Sci&Tech Exhibition of Brazópolis (Oct.)
» FRICI exhibition (Sept.)
» Ann. Meet. Soc.Astr.Bras. (Aug.)
» Talks in schools: 520 children from March to June
» I am Brazilian liaison at PAEO
SOAR
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Good Intentions
• Brazilian Gemini Press Releases (3 up to July’03)
• Increase of Gemini’s PIO and ToA influence on LNA’s
activities
• Proposal: Gemini PIO 2005 Meeting in Brazil in April
The End
www.lna.brmabans@lna.br
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