Mt. Meru Astronomical Observatory
Science Motivation for the Next Generation | Motivation ya Sayansi kwa Kizazi kijacho
As the Ailangs school is not yet in session, and the boarding students not yet returned to campus due to COVID-19, ambassadors Zacharia, Eliona, Pendaeli, OSEO Board member Thomas Mbise, and just a few local students came together at the Mt. Meru Astronomical Observatory (maintaining relative safe distance) to observe the Annular Solar Eclipse of …
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“I am very happy to send many greetings and appreciation from my head teacher and staff members for the great support [and] funds from [the] donors that help to facilitate learning during this hard time of pandemic virus COVID-19 for Tanzania students. First of all my head teacher and other members of the staff are …
Per the previous posts, the MMAO Distance Learning program has reached all students who have internet at home, in the immediate schools where our Ambassadors teach. We are now working to reach the hundreds of students who do not have access to the internet via smart phone. As the Tanzania government has closed the schools …
Eliatosha writes, “Yesterday I managed to get all [the] numbers [for each parent], and good enough I called them just to ask if they have smart phones. But 90% of parents they don’t have accessibility, they have just normal phones, therefore as per my small research I suggest that it will be good for me …
We thank everyone who has donated for the continued support of our fundraising campaign. The contributions are very well received, and already put to good use. In our weekly Skype call, the four teachers Elineema, Zacharia, Eliatosha, and Eliona provided updates for each of their schools, as follows: Elineema contacted 5 schools with the OSEO …
The MMAO Ambassadors have added student assignments and instructional material for five schools, reaching more than 500 students in total. Learn more …
This Sunday we held our weekly Skype meeting, a routine maintained since October 2019. In this call we reviewed the status of each MMAO Ambassador’s effort to reach their students. In all, they have engaged more than 400 students across four schools. Those students from private schools are more likely to have access to cell …
Hi! I’m Zacharia Mjungu, a Teacher from Ailanga and one of the MMAO Ambassadors and a frontier of this unique opportunity of creating a distance learning program initiative. Thank you! everyone for supporting this initiative through your donations. I understand this is the hardest moment for everyone around the world. But I’m so happy for …
Tonight we can enjoy the biggest, brightest super-moon of 2020! An introduction the event is provided at EarthSky Full moons at apogee, or farthest from Earth (left) and perigee or closest to Earth (right) in 2011. Composite image by EarthSky community member C. B. Devgun in India. Thanks, C. B.! Using the eye alone, it’ll …
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About OSEO The Organization for Science, Education, and Observatory (OSEO) in Meru District, Tanzania is the governing body and operator of the Mt. Meru Astronomical Observatory (MMAO). From 2014 through 2019 OSEO worked with Telescopes to Tanzania, a project of Astronomers Without Borders, to develop, construct, and manage the physical observatory. As of 2020 the …