The African Cultural Astronomy Project Goals for 2006
- Plan the annual meeting of project member to take place in 2007.
- Formalize our relationship with the International Society for Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture (ISAAC).
- Encourage members to submit papers to the Oxford 8 conference which will take place in June 2007 in Lithuania.
- Fund Raising:
- Funds to support the travel of African scholars to Oxford 8.
- Funds to support collaborative research projects.
- Funds to support the annual meeting of international scholars working on African cultural astronomy.
- Funds to support the hiring and training of student assistants.
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Complete the conference proceedings from the Ghana Eclipse Conference with Springer Press.
- Curriculum Development
- Complete the two K12 lesson plans developed during the K12 Educators Workshop at the Ghana Eclipse Conference
- Consider the undergraduate level Ghana Internship syllabus and Cultural Astronomy: Africa syllabus created by Jarita Holbrook.
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