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What are the main aims of Project Galileo? |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 15 October 2007 |
- To provide a curriculum resource for Science and Technology at Key Stages 3&4 and AS/A2 levels, as well as ICT courses at post-16 level.
- To enable imaging and searches of comets, asteroids, supernovae, deep-sky and planetary objects.
- To promote an awareness and understanding of the issues surrounding the maintenance and successful operation of a remote-controlled observatory.
- To inspire teenagers to learn the art as well as science of research and research teams: how scientific research is practiced, how physical ideas become mainstream, how collaboration between scientific disciplines fosters greater understanding.
- To foster links and collaboration between schools of different age-ranges and traditions in the city of Bristol.
- To encourage understanding of the existance of and potential hazards of near-earth objects.
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