Build a Telescope with Mikael Svalgaard
In 2009 the world will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first telescope. The Children of Galileo project will let all 3rd-6th graders in Denmark build their own telescope.
September 11th this year saw the opening of a test run of the project. In the test run, about 1000 children are building telescopes.
The Minister of Science builds a telscope.
See more photos from the launching of the Children of Galileo project. (11/9-2007) here.
(photos by Henrik Delfer, Copenhagen's Astronomical Association og Rune Thode Nielsen, the Danish Youth Association of Science)