The Faulkes Telescope Universe Challenge is now open for registration.
One of the highlights of IYA2009-Ireland is a schools competition for using the Faulkes Telescopes - state of the art two metre telescopes from Hawaii and Australia, which can be remotely operated via a web-based interface by students during school hours in Ireland.
The Faulkes Telescope Challenge is aimed at groups students, aided by their school teacher, at transition year or the equivalent in the North of Ireland, from the whole of the island of Ireland, as part of the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. Younger or older students and individual projects are also allowed.
See the NUI Galway press release here.
Download the information pdf document here.
The prize for the winners
(school students & teacher & mentor)
is a visit to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile
to see the largest optical telescope in the world:
the 16-meter VLT (Very Large Telescope).
Click here for the on-line registration form if you are a teacher and want to take part in this challenge. Registration closes at midnight Saturday 21 February 2009.