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Global Sky Partners

The goal of the Global Sky Partners program is to inspire students, teachers and the public around the world to engage in scientific endeavors. Through this opportunity, LCO particularly aims to inspire audiences in under-represented communities and the developing world, who would not normally be able to take part in programs involving professional scientific equipment.

LCO annually provides over 1,000 hours of observing time on our telescope network to educational organizations. The Global Sky Partners are a diverse group of educators and scientists who run their own fully-supported education projects and investigations using our telescopes.

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Global Sky Partners is supported by the Simons Foundation and the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

View our 2023-2024 report
Active Partners 25
Student Publications 147

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Current Global Sky Partners

Filtered by Audience: Online workshops/training/mentoring

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100 Global High School Teams

100 Global High School Teams intends to facilitate students and teachers to use the robotic telescope time (0.4m) on LCO for the target objects (galaxies, nebulae, globular & open star …

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Beyond The Stars

Beyond the Stars is a place-conscious astronomy education program in Canada that provides hands-on, inquiry-based learning opportunities for students in remote, Indigenous, and historically underserved communities. The program combines access …

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Comets/NEOs

Offering assistance to educators and students studying comets and near-Earth asteroids.

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iSTEAM Moon Over Us

Moon Over Us project promotes the observations of the Moon by students on different continents. Students learn about the Moon, its distance from Earth, and how it changes it's shape. …

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MicroObservatory Exoplanet Exploration Partnership

Through a pilot partnership with LCO, MicroObservatory aims to enhance our users’ learning experience. Specifically, we will offer our audiences periodic opportunities to request “Target of Opportunity” exoplanet datasets from …

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MicroObservatory Exoplanet Exploration Partnership

MicroObservatory is partnering with LCO to offer our users a pathway of authentic observing opportunities of increasing depth and complexity. Our observing program participants in YouthAstroNet (middle-school age) and DIY …

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Our Solar Siblings

Our Solar Siblings does three things. It freely provides a fully provisioned, off the shelf, curriculum for secondary teachers teaching astronomy, it freely provides guidance and support for larger student …

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Pan-African Citizen Science e-Laboratory

This project aims to use telescope time for citizen science contributions, astrophotography, entry-level research, and observational activities. Its goal is to make telescopes more accessible across Africa and to elevate …

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PETeR: PETeR: Education Project with Robotic Telescopes

Proyecto Educativo con Telescopios Robóticos (PETeR) - Education Project with Robotic Telescopes - is an online laboratory that aims to engage Spanish students in science and …

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Saptarishi India

Saptarishi India is an All-India astronomy-based STREAM Project. They aim to engage and train students, educators, and amateur astronomers globally but especially across India in the study of deep sky …

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Shristi Astronomy

Shristi Astronomy has been using LCO as an Educational Tool to help participants understand how observations are made, how to plan observations, exposure times, filters, and analyse data. We hope …

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Stanford Online High School Astronomy Research Club

Stanford Online High School (SOHS) is an accredited, independent school for intellectually passionate students in grades 7 - 12. The SOHS Astronomy Research Club involves students across the world in …

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STEM Through Astronomy

The Boyce Research Initiatives and Education Foundation (BRIEF) also known as Boyce-Astro provides research opportunities to students to enhance their educational experience and introduce them to the scientific and technical …

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Widely Applied Time Domain Astrophysics / Gee-Whiz Astrophysics

Gee-Whiz Astronomy Modeling (GWAM) collects small group of students, teachers, and scientists, for astronomy education projects supported by Global Hands-on Universe. Participants collaborate online synchronously for one hour a week …