Program

April 17
14:00h - Visit to a Public School

Opening Ceremony in Trianon Municipal Theater

18:30h - Concert with the "ONG Orquestrando a Vida" Symphony Band.
19:00h - Opening Conference
Mayor of Campos dos Goytacazes - Mrs. Rosinha Garotinho

Chancellor of the Instituto Federal Fluminense - Prof. Cibele Daher Botelho Monteiro

Director of Technological and Professional Education Formulation of the Secretary of Professional and Technological Education (SETEC) of the Education Ministry (MEC) - Prof. Luiz Augusto Caldas Pereira

Concert of the Young Symphony Orchestra Mariuccia Iacovino - Centro Cultura Musical e ONG Orquestrando a Vida
Tribute (in memoriam) to Mr. Joao Batista de Seixas Tinoco.

Opening Presentation - "What's it like being in Space!" - Anousheh Ansari - First Female Private Space Explorer

April 18
8:30h -Astronomy in Campos dos Goytacazes - Louis Cruls Astronomy Club Team.
8:45h -- "Astronomers Without Borders: Taking the International Year of Astronomy into the Future" - Mike Simmons president and founder of Astronomers Without Borders
9:30h - "UNAWE: Bringing Stars and Galaxies to the World of Young Children" - Carolina Odman -Internacional Manager of the UNAWE program
10:00h - "Astronomy in Iran" - "Babak Tafreshi - coordinator of  "The World at Night" project
10:30h-Coffee Break
10:45h - "Amateur Astronomy in South East Asia" - Manoj Pai - Astronomy Club, Ahmedabad e Task Group 100 Hours of Astronomy
11:15h - "Astronomical activities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)" -Nazar Hizam Sallam - President of United Arab Emirates Mobile Observatory
11:45h - "The importance of Astronomy in Andean Ancestral Cosmo Vision" - Manuel de La Torre - Andean Archaeoastronomy Specialist
12:15h - "Astronomy and Astronautics Brazilian Olympiad (OBA) and the Latin American  Astronomy and Astronautics Olympiad (OLAA)" - Julio Daniel Blanco Zarate - OLAA vice-president
12:45h -Lunch

14:00h to 16:30h - Workshops:

"Andean Archaeoastronomy: Adean Calendar, Ancient Andean Observatories  and the Milk Way in the Andean World" - Manuel de La Torre

Oswaldo Barbosa Loureda e Jessica Barbosa Sobral de Araujo- "Experimentos de baixo custo aplicados a Educacao Aero-Espacial" - "Experiments of low cost applied to Space Education" - Campus Guarus

Workshop of Astrophotography -  Babak Tafreshi
Basics of night sky photography
The art of landscape astrophotography
Methods of telescopic photography
Basics of landscape astroimage processing

 "From Sobral to Gravitational Lens" - Marcela Campista Borges de Carvalho (ICRA/CBPF) and Pedro da Cunha Ferreira (ICRA/CBPF)

"Basics of  Astronomy" - Louis Cruls Astronomy Club Team

"Mathematics for Astronomy in High Schools" - Paulo Antenor Ferreira da Costa Oliveira (Aristarco de Samos Astronomical Observatory)
Meeting with Teachers

Program for Kids:
das 14:00h as 15:00h - Talk with the Astronaut Anousheh Ansari
das 15:00h as 16:00h - Talk with the Brazilian Astronaut Marcos Pontes
das 16:00h as 16:30h - Anousheh Ansari and  Marcos Pontes answer kids questions

17:00h - Launch of the Experimental Rocket AAT/IFFv1 - Campus Guarus
18:00h - Contest of Robotics from LEGO Education.
21:00h -Meetings, Cultural Activities and Sky Oservation

April 19

9:00h - "The challenge of Space" - Marcos Pontes  - Brazilian Astronaut

10:20h - Intervalo - Coffee Break

10:40h - "Young Talents for Science Project"-  Jorge Belizario (CECIERJ)
10:50h - "Bringing the Universe to the Earth at the Old Town of Havana" - Oscar Alvarez Pomares - Direction of Sciences, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA), Cuba
11:30h - "The role of astronomy in Brazilian music, literature and poetry in the popular and erudite" - Ronaldo Rogerio de Freitas Mourao
12:00h -  "The Galileo Teacher Training Program (GTTP) in Brazil" -  Maria de Fatima Oliveira - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

12:30h - Lunch

10:30h to 12:30h -Workshops for Kids

"Walking Through the Solar System" - Marjory Nascimento (Colegio Objetivo de Campinas) and Paulo S. Bretones (Colegio Objetivo de Campinas)

"Astronomy for Kids" - Louis Cruls Astronomy Club/ IFF team

14:00h - "Youth Promoting Cooperation and Education in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (YGNSS) - A Part of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Initiatives" - "Daniel Konrad Link (SGAC)
14:15h - "Project and Construction of Sounding Rockets" - Oswaldo Barbosa Loureda - Centro Tecnologico da Aeronautica
14:45h - "Electronics Applied for Aerospace Engines" - Cedric Salotto - IFF
15:15h - "Astronomical Occultations" - Breno Loureiro Giacchini
15:45h -- "Astronomy Instrumentation, do it yourself and... have fun" - Jose Carlos Diniz (CANF)

16:15h - Coffee Break

16:30h - Oral Communications

"Astronomy Education in Cariacica, a city of Espirito Santo State" - Paulo Antenor Ferreira da Costa Oliveira (Observatorio Astronomico Aristarco de Samos)  

"Teaching Astronomy Activities for the last years of the Elementary Education" - Fabio Bianchi de Moura (UFES)

"The biggest Astronomical Telescope of Brazil in National Observatory" - Marcomede Rangel Nunes (National Observatory)

"Astronomy for classes of Young and Adults Teaching" - Adriana Oliveira Bernardes (Clube de Astronomia de Itaocara Marcos Pontes e LCFIS/UENF)

"Music and Astronomy: A Pedagogic Proposal of Teaching" - Arleidimar Ramos dos Santos (Clube de Astronomia de Itaocara Marcos Pontes)

"Planetario Movel Digital para o Ensino de Astronomia" - "Digital Mobile Planetarium for Astronomy Teaching" - Jonatas Ornellas Duarte (UENF) e Marcelo de Oliveira Souza (CALC/IFF e UENF)

"Development of pedagogical resources to popularise Astronomy in Elementary Schools" - Samara da Silva Morett (UENF) e Marcelo de Oliveira Souza (CALC/IFF e UENF)

"Projeto Jovem Astronomo" - "Young Astronomer Project" - Guilherme Weber Sampaio de Melo (Clube Vale-Jaguaribano de Astronomia - Ceara)

"Topics in Experimental Rocket AAT/IFFv1 structure development" - Icaro Azevedo, Andre Andrade and Lucas Cordeiro (AAT/IFFv1 Mechanics Team)

"Important applications programs in experimental launches of rockets" - Gabriel de Souza and Jefferson Barbosa (AAT/IFFv1 Eletronics Team)

"Location for radiogoniometry" - Cedric Salotto (IFF)