100 Hours of Astronomy (IYA 2009) Winners announced

As you all know (or should know!), the weekend of April 2nd to 5th this year was host to 100 Hours of Astronomy worldwide as part of IYA 2009. Well, the international winners were announced this morning, and they are:

Award One - Largest number of registered events held by a single astronomy group, club or society.
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Centro de Estudos Astronômicos de Alagoas (CEAAL) - Brazil
Highly Commended: IYA Puerto Rico
Highly Commended: Jiangsu Astronomical Society - China


Award Two - Largest single registered 100 Hours of Astronomy event
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Jiangsu Astronomical Society - China
Highly Commended: RAMIP - France
Highly Commended: SARM - Romania


Award Three - Community Outreach Award
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: The Levin Stargazers - New Zealand
Highly Commended: South-western Montana Astronomical Society - United States of America
Highly Commended: Camden County Library Astronomy Club - United States of America


Award Four - Most innovative 100 Hours of Astronomy event
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Manthan Educational Programme Society - India
Highly Commended: Navegar Foundation - Portugal
Highly Commended: A.N.I.C - Columbia


Award Five - Most complete astronomy club, group, or society member participation
Prize: Explore Scientific David Levy Comet Hunter Optical Telescope Tube Assembly
Winner: Centre for Basic Space Science, Nsukka Enugu State - Nigeria.
Highly Commended: Rixastro - Belgium
Highly Commended: Mahatma Gandhi Mission’s Centre for Astronomy & Space Technology - India


Award Six - Most publicised 100 Hour of Astronomy registered event
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Sirius Astronomy Association - Algeria
Highly Commended: AUI/NRAO - Chile


Award Seven - 100 Hours of Astronomy youth participation award
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Upmanya Moitra, Dhirananda Roy Study & Research Centre India - Calcutta
Highly Commended: Robin Lee, CCH Astro Club - Malaysia
Highly Commended: Elias Jordon, Kansas Astronomical Observers- United States of America


Award Eight - Outstanding Individual within a registered 100 Hours of Astronomy event
Prize: Celestron Sky Scout
Winner: Ana Maria Mourão, Centra/IST – Portugal
Highly Commended: Pro P.N Okeke, Centre for Basic Space Science, Nsukka Enugu State - Nigeria.
Highly Commended: Paul Moss, The Levin Stargazers - New Zealand


Well done to them all. In Ireland, numerous outreach events were hosted around the country, and for the most part, the weather was favourable too! It is even thought that this won't be a once off event, that it will become an annual feature. I think it is a good idea.

Seanie.

Thanks for posting this list, many many thanks to all those who participated in Ireland.
Nothing we did fulfilled the criteria for any of the Awards, however as Seanie say's it was our first try at taking part in a global event such as this together.

I will be posting information about another global astronomy outreach milestone for IYA 2009 soon
We can learn from what was achieved in April and build on it to make Galilean Nights
something to shout about .

Deirdre Kelleghan

Outreach Coordinator IFAS
www.irishastronomy.org/
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