The International Astronomical Youth Camp: lessons learned in 50 Years
The International Astronomical Youth Camp: lessons learned in 50 Years
Since 1969, the International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) has given young adults the chance to broaden their horizons, whilst embarking on scientific inquiry into astronomy. Having run more than 50 successful camps, we have overcome a great range of challenges (e.g. logistical, pedagogical, and financial) as well as facing new challenges which continuously arise. To have a greater understanding of the IAYCs impact in the longer-term, we recently carried out a survey completed by 251 people across 54 nationalities, covering every year that the camp has run. The results strongly support that the camp's method is beneficial overall (97%) and has a positive influence upon people's lives (96%) - and 77% have remained in regular contact. We also found that the majority are studying/working in STEM (55%), with 26% in astronomy/astrophysics....
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International Astronomical Union
Dalgleish, Hannah S.
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Veitch-Michaelis, Joshua L.
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September 2018
Dalgleish, Hannah S.
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Veitch-Michaelis, Joshua L.
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Dalgleish, Hannah S. and Veitch-Michaelis, Joshua L.
(2018)
The International Astronomical Youth Camp: lessons learned in 50 Years.
In Communicating Astronomy with the Public Conference 2018.
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Since 1969, the International Astronomical Youth Camp (IAYC) has given young adults the chance to broaden their horizons, whilst embarking on scientific inquiry into astronomy. Having run more than 50 successful camps, we have overcome a great range of challenges (e.g. logistical, pedagogical, and financial) as well as facing new challenges which continuously arise. To have a greater understanding of the IAYCs impact in the longer-term, we recently carried out a survey completed by 251 people across 54 nationalities, covering every year that the camp has run. The results strongly support that the camp's method is beneficial overall (97%) and has a positive influence upon people's lives (96%) - and 77% have remained in regular contact. We also found that the majority are studying/working in STEM (55%), with 26% in astronomy/astrophysics....
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