THE first batch of summer classes on basic space technology was conducted, featuring more than 200 students from the basic education level.
Under the leadership of up to five trainers from the space agency, the class has 207 students of Grades 9, 10 and 11, based at No 2 Basic Education High School in Dagon Township, from 9 am to noon. The duration is four weeks from 9 March to 3 April.
It aims to help the country’s human resource development in space, encourage young students to have interests and ambitions in astronomy and build the foundation for continued learning about space science and technology. The Yangon Region government, the Myanmar Space Agency and the Ministry of Education are jointly organizing it.
The basic education-level space art, cartoon, and poster competition, aimed to encourage next generations to have interest in space science and technology and inspire their science ideas developed from their artistic skills, was jointly organized by the Yangon Region government, the Myanmar Space Agency, and the Space Museum (Yangon) from 27 February to 1 March at the Space Museum, Yangon within the People’s Square, and it caught about 6000 students.
The Space Museum in Yangon was open to the public on 30 November after the former Planetarium was renovated. — MT/ZS
