The alliance between the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics MAS and “Comisión de Desafíos del Futuro” Chile’s Senate Commissioning is from long ago, however, due to the pandemic, the in-person activities were suspended. This 2022, the project “Congreso Futuro en tu Comuna” came back, in which MAS collaborates with several astronomy outreach activities.
In 2018 and 2019 were carried out massive Observation Nights in Recoleta, La Granja, Lo Prado, La Reina, and even in Peñalolén, having as a background the beautiful Baha’i House of Worship. Nevertheless, due to the pandemic situtation and the cease of in-person events, the activities of “Congreso Futuro en tu Comuna” (CF) took a pause.
This 2022, and with an under-control sanitary crisis, the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics Outreach Program, ObservaMAS joins CF once again to carry out a series of talks and workshops in different communes of the Metropolitan Region and in regions.
The ObservaMAS team with Quinta Normal’s Mayor, Karina Delfino
Whereas during June started the season in Lo Barnechea with students from Cerro 18.Last August 26, several students from Quinta Normal could learn about Robotics, Climate Change and astronomy thanks to the collaboration not only with MAS, but also the Faculty of Mathematics UC and the Con-Ciencia community. Likewise, last September 29, septemberthe ObservaMAS team, in which MAS astronomers Tracy Catalán, Laura Martínez, Karina Baeza and Ernesto Camacho are part of, Molinaheld the activity in Molina, where they shared together with children and high school students from local communities in there.
According to MAS Outreach Manager, Makarena Estrella Pacheco,“the possibility of collaborating with Congreso Futuro allows to increase our audience of our outreach program and, especially to reach students and adults who not always have the opportunity of get amuzed by the wonder of studying the Universe.”
Next dates for “Congreso Futuro en tu Comuna” with MAS will be held in Lo Prado, where a free observation night will be held – in Santa Cruz, and later, in November in Coyhaique and Aysén.
Workshop “Create your own Nebula” in Quinta Normal
