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SGAC Costa Rica Welcome to the page of SGAC Costa Rica! In recent years, Costa Rica has seen an evolution of its science education system. Generally, there has been a growing awareness of its capability to design, create and develop different high-end technologies. Among these technologies, space is arguably the most recent one, thus it is in a quite early stage compared to other nations. Despite this, it is advancing in an outstanding pace. SGAC Costa Rica invites you to take a look at what young space professionals and university students are working on to bring Costa Ricans closer to space!
Young Space Activities Overview in Costa Rica SGAC Costa Rica as a network is lucky to have a number of local organisations as partners. Among the most active ones is the Costa Rican Astronomy Association (Asociacion Costarricense de Astronomia or ACODEA). It is an NGO dedicated to educating the general public about telescopes, their characteristics, how to find celestial bodies in the sky and also how to take pictures of such bodies. ACODEA also hosts different events such as “Telescopios en la Acera” (Telescopes on the Sidewalk) that attract young people and the general public. Another important institution is the Universidad de Costa Rica’s (UCR) Planetarium, which was created in 2004 with the goal of educating children and adults on topics related to the cosmos.
In addition, the Central American Association of Aeronautics and Space (ACAE, Asociacion Centroamericana de Aeronautica y del Espacio) based in Costa Rica, has been developing projects (such as DAEDALUS) to reach out to and inspire young students. This project pursues bringing together young students from a variety of engineering and physics backgrounds to build a platform that would allow the study of atmospheric phenomena perform remote sensing tasks and the development of the technologies necessary to obtain these data. The first step towards the deployment of such platform was the development and testing of an atmospheric balloon as part of the Aether project, under the sponsorship of Ad Astra Co. This balloon allowed the students participating in the project, understand design concepts, launching and recovery techniques for space probes. A video showing the successful launch of this balloon can be accessed at the link at the bottom of the page.
Country-Specific Events in 2012
Interesting Web Links for the Young Generation in Costa Rica
Asociacion Centroamericana de Aeronautica y del Espacio (ACAE):http://acae-ca.org/Default.aspx
Project Aether:http://www.projectaether.org/about.html Successful aerostatic balloon’s launch:http://tinyurl.com/4odyeauAd Astra Rocket Company: http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc Space Research Center of the Universidad de Costa Rica: http://www.cinespa.ucr.ac.cr Universidad de Costa Rica’s Planetarium: http://www.planetario.ucr.ac.cr ACODEA, Costa Rican Astronomy Association: http://www.acodea.org
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