The Faulkes Telescope Project is proud to support a large number of school astronomy projects, which use the Faulkes Telescopes and the guides and resources on our website to undertake projects of research-level quality in their classrooms. Below are a list of some of the school projects that the Faulkes Telescope Project have supported.

If your school has done a project that you would like showcased, we’d love to hear about it. Send an email with the details of your project to info@faulkes-telescope.com and you could be featured on our website.

Online FT teacher training in Germany

By Paul Breitenstein In Cooperation with the Planetarium Münster, teachers from Pascal-Gymnasium, Ratsgymnasium Münster and Nepomucenum Coesfeld took part in the first online-training (“Astronomy 2.0”). This was held “online” not only because of the Coronavirus, but also because this is a normal way of working in modern scientific work – this is the era of Astronomy 2.0! In two conference ...
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Upcoming virtual conferences (STEM education in astronomy/space)

We are involved a couple of upcoming virtual conferences that you might like to sign up to – they are free, and will cover a broad range of astronomy and space-related topics, and will have sessions aimed at STEM educators from primary school to university level. Global Hands on Universe 2020 August 22nd to 28th, 2020 Have you imagined being ...
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Teachers involved in the discovery of a comet

by Paul Breitenstein and Paul Roche C/2020 S4 (PANSTARRS) is the scientific name of a newly discovered comet, which teachers were able to confirm during their teacher training workshop at the Pascal Gymnasium Münster, Germany. C/2020 S4 (PANSTARRS)  is classified as  a Jupiter family comet, and was discovered by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope (located near FT North on Maui) on ...
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German school students go asteroid hunting

by Hannah Spieker and Lucie Besmehn Ten students from five MINT-EC schools in Münster/Germany are happy about their participation in the discovery of four previously unknown “Near Earth Objects” (NEOs) after working with Paul Breitenstein (AiM project leader) and Dr. Tobias Jogler (astrophysicist and head of the Münster Planetarium). This work includes the discovery of an “Amor”-type asteroid 2020TX. Hannah ...
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Double CPD day

It might still be early on in 2021, but the Faulkes Telescope Project are already busy running teacher training workshops! On Thursday 4th February, two Continuous Professional Development (CPD) sessions took place, both supported by ESERO-UK and demonstrating the use of the LCO network of telescopes to inspire primary and secondary school students in STEM subjects. In the afternoon, Helen ...
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