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Tabitha Penina Alango
Team Chair and Contact Person, NAEC team - Kenya
Elimisha Msichan Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA)
tabithaalangoatgmail.com
Tabitha Penina Alango is a dedicated physicist with a research background in materials science. She holds a Master of Science in Physics from Maasai Mara University. Tabitha is passionate about mentoring students, especially young girls, in STEM fields and has been involved in various outreach programs. She is currently serving as the project manager of Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA), a project that seeks to mentor and empower girls in rural areas in Kenya and Uganda. Tabitha has presented her work at multiple international conferences and is actively engaged in projects promoting astronomy education among girls in rural Kenya.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Chair and Contact Person, NAEC team - Kenya
Elimisha Msichan Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA)
tabithaalangoatgmail.com
Tabitha Penina Alango is a dedicated physicist with a research background in materials science. She holds a Master of Science in Physics from Maasai Mara University. Tabitha is passionate about mentoring students, especially young girls, in STEM fields and has been involved in various outreach programs. She is currently serving as the project manager of Elimisha Msichana Elimisha Jamii na Astronomia (EMEJA), a project that seeks to mentor and empower girls in rural areas in Kenya and Uganda. Tabitha has presented her work at multiple international conferences and is actively engaged in projects promoting astronomy education among girls in rural Kenya.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Prof Paul Baki
Team Member, NAEC team - Kenya
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Technical University of Kenya
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Kenya
Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Technical University of Kenya
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Lekshmi Rajagopal
Team Member, NAEC team - Kenya
Turkana Basin Institute, University of Nairobi
I work in Astronomy development, mainly through my role leading the astronomy department at the Turkana Basin Institute. I feel strongly about the role that science education plays in a community, and I believe that opportunities for research and well-thought out curricula are the pillars of a good education. I am also a PhD candidate and part time lecturer at the University of Nairobi where I teach undergraduate astronomy units. I try to connect these courses with existing resources (such as the Nairobi Planetarium), to deliver meaningful lessons to students.
I am also interested in how cultural astronomy practices connect communities to the skies. I think it is important to re-open this relationship and understand that astronomy is not a foreign science.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Team Member, NAEC team - Kenya
Turkana Basin Institute, University of Nairobi
I work in Astronomy development, mainly through my role leading the astronomy department at the Turkana Basin Institute. I feel strongly about the role that science education plays in a community, and I believe that opportunities for research and well-thought out curricula are the pillars of a good education. I am also a PhD candidate and part time lecturer at the University of Nairobi where I teach undergraduate astronomy units. I try to connect these courses with existing resources (such as the Nairobi Planetarium), to deliver meaningful lessons to students.
I am also interested in how cultural astronomy practices connect communities to the skies. I think it is important to re-open this relationship and understand that astronomy is not a foreign science.
Appointed as NAEC until: Aug. 1, 2027
Contact
To get in touch with the NAEC team for Kenya please contact:
Tabitha Penina Alango via tabithaalangoatgmail.com
Astronomy Education in Kenya
For more information on Astronomy Education in Kenya, see the Astronomy Education in Kenya document (PDF file 210.47 kB Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) icons) prepared by our NAEC team
The Office of Astronomy for Education is hosted by the Haus der Astronomie on the campus of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. The Office of Astronomy for Education is an office of the International Astronomical Union, with substantial funding from the Klaus Tschira Foundation and the Carl Zeiss Foundation. The Shaw-IAU Workshops on Astronomy for Education are funded by the Shaw Prize Foundation.
