July Meeting
Friday, July 7, 2017, 7:00 pm
One small step for AOK, One giant leap for Kosovo
Pranvera will describe the astronomy outreach program in Kosovo. While this country has recently been through a war, she will relate how her group dealt with many difficulties and setbacks and has managed to be successful and popular just in a relatively short period of time, impacting the people and children in Kosovo.
This summer, she was a featured speaker at the Texas Star Party and will be presenting at Spacefest, Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association, and Grand Canyon Star Party. She will also speak at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA.
Pranvera Hyseni is 21 years old from the Republic of Kosovo in southeastern Europe. She is the founder and director of Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo, which is the largest, non-profit astronomy outreach program in that country. She currently attends the University of Pristina School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics and majors in Geography. Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo is also a chapter of the Charlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project which is located in Atlanta, GA.
