IAU OAE Astronomy Teacher Training Workshop - Recognition and Appreciation

Alhamdulillah We are pleased to announce that IAU OAE Astronomy Teacher Training Workshop was a great success. We feel very honored and privileged that we organized IAU OAE Astronomy Teacher Training Workshop at Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi. 

We would like to express my deepest gratitude to the International Astronomical Union, Office of Astronomy Education for their trust, generous funding and kind support. 

We are very grateful to our international online speakers for their time, support and wonderful talks:

Prof. Dr. Debra Elmegreen, IAU President, New York, United States

Dr. Gaitee Hussain, Head of Science Division, European Space Agency, Netherlands

Dr. Aquib Moin, Associate Professor, United State Emirates University, UAE

Dr. Saeed Salimpour, Astronomy Education Research Coordinator at Office of Astronomy for Education (OAE), International Astronomical Union (IAU)

Dr. Anna Sippel, OAE Project Scientist, OAE, IAU

Dr. Tshiamiso Makwela, Astronomy Education Research Coordinator, OAE, IAU

We are thankful to Ms. Manisha Dwa our TTP buddy from the OAE in Nepal. 

We are very thankful to Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Laghari, Divisional Head Astronomy,  Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Karachi, who was our guest astronomer and observer of this workshop and Mr. Abdul Salam, SUPARCO), for giving us him time and sharing his valuable knowledge during observation sessions and SUPARCO for sending us Meade Eclipse View 82 mm reflecting telescope, solar filters and Ladkee meteorite for workshop duration.

We are very thankful to the support of District Education Officer (ES&HS), District East, Karachi for helping us reaching out the primary and secondary school science teachers in government schools. 

We would like to express my deepest gratitude to the Prof. Dr. M. Jawed Iqbal, Director, Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi, for his support through out this workshop and the teachers for sharing their valuable  knowledge:

Mr. Yazdan Zuhad, Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi

Mr. Moiz Ahmed, Astrophysicist, Taqwa Space Observatory and Kastrodome Space observatory

Ms. Aiman, Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi

Mr. Fayyaz Ur Rasheed,  Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi

Mr. Rayan Khan, Founder Cosmic Tribe, Karachi Pakistan

Ms. Asra Jameel, Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi

We are thankful to our dear students who worked very hard as volunteers to make this event a success:  Ms. Ayesha, Mr. Aly Gajani, Ms. Hareem Zaidi, Ms. Maheen Mansoor, Mr. Ali Areezee, Mr. M. Ahsan, Institute of Space Science and Technology, University of Karachi.

We are very thankful to Prof. Dr. M. Ali Ismail, Director, National Center for Big data and cloud computing,  NED-UET, Karachi, for his moral support during the execution of this workshop. 

Last but not the least we are thankful to the observatory staff Mr. Lavi Masih and Mr. Shamshad for their hard work. 

We would like to highly appreciate the determination and commitment of participant teachers from government and private schools who attended this workshop with all their heart and became the part of our Astronomy education mission.