A group of students got to aim for the stars at a weeklong science camp, where they built telescopes out of a tubing made of plastic and fiber, jumber and an optical kit, The Daily Reflector reports.
During the East Carolina University Science Camp, lessons about craters, mountain ranges of Earth's moon or the moons of Jupiter in addition to the hands-on project allowed students to see the world in a whole new way, officials said.
The United Nations declared 2009 the International Year of Astronomy to mark the 400th anniversary of Galileo's discovery of the telescope. To present the four-week program, the university partnered with Go-Science, which brings informal science education programs to the public through hands-on exhibits.
“They are going to be able to see the same things Galileo saw 400 years ago,” said John Meredith, camp instructor and chairman of Go-Science's board of directors. “Actually, these telescopes are more powerful than Galileo's.”
To learn more about the organization visit www.go-science.org.
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