World Space Week 2002 Report

October 4^th

During World Space Week 2002, three main activities were set. The first one, the opening ceremony, was the lecture "Astronomical Navigation". The lecturers were students of the Escuela Naval de Suboficiales ARC Barranquilla. Teachers and students from different schools in Barranquilla attended this event at the Centro Cultural Comfamiliar del Atlántico: Colegio Gran Colombiano, Col. Americano, Col. San José, Instituto Técnico Nacional de Comercio INSTENALCO, Instituto para el Desarrollo del Potencial Humano IDPHU, Col. Colón, Col. Sofía Camargo de Lleras, Instituto Pestalozzi, Unidad Porteña de Aprendizaje UPA, Col Nuestra Señora del Carmen and Instituto San José.

October 5^th

The next activity was an hour and a half special radio program at La Voz De La Costa Radio Station. Voz Infantil and Hola Juventud, which programs are produced by youngsters, found in the "Space and Daily Life" an interesting way to get Colombian children and young people familiarized to all those technological advances which had their origins in the mankind career to space. This special started at 9 o'clock in the morning and finished at 11 am. Again, it was an opportunity for schools and other institutions to show how they celebrated World Space Week.

October 7^th

The third event was a workshop about "Science and Study Clubs". The leaders of the workshop were four students of Colegio Colón from Barranquilla: Diana and Sandra Canchila, Eugenia Sarmiento and Carlos Ortiz. With a very creative and active methodology, they gave some key steps to form and work in a club of students dedicated to the science and astronomy. This activity took place in the Auditorium 'Angela Muñoz' at the Public Library of the city.

Students and teachers from different schools in Barranquilla were attending the workshop, but it was amazing to meet pupils and teachers from other towns of the Departamento del Atlántico: Instituto Técnico Agropecuario Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria, Col. Técnico de Santo Tomás, Col. Bachillerato Femenino de Sabana Larga, Escuela Normal Superior Santa Ana de Baranoa, Bachillerato Francisco de Paula Santander de Galapa, Bachillerato Comercial Mixto de Ponedera, Bachillerato San Pablo de Polonuevo, Instituto Técnico Agropecuario de Ponedera, Colegio Bachillerato de Campo de la Cruz, Colegio Bachillerato de Santa Lucía, Instituto Técnico Agropecuario de Tubará.

Besides these three main activities organized by Voz Infantil-Hola Juventud and WYESR Colombia, the Planetarium of Barranquilla presented a lecture about 'Signs of life in Mars' by Alvaro Jimenez Vélez. Moreover, schools and universities celebrated World Space Week in their classrooms and with special presentation of experiments and researches based on the main theme of World Space Week 'Space and Daily Life'.

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