Hey all,
I've been working with a task force of Australian Land Surveyors who are keen to use the ToV 2012 as a project to promote surveying as a career path (it turns out that there is a desparate shortage of surveyors in Oz).
The team have raised a lot of money with the aim of putting as many sun projection telescopes "SolarScopes" into as many schools as possible along with a free 'suryeyor' to do some fun excercises! There is the worlds simplest competition to enter to get one for free.
If you are a teacher or want to twist your kids' teachers arm, the competition is over here:
www.transitofvenus.com.au
BTW, those Solarscopes are great - We are ordering them by the pallet load and can land them in Australia for about 80 bucks (half retail price) if anyone is interested. The team are not making any money out of this at all, infact they have pledged tens of thousands of dollars to the project!
My interest is purely from an astronomical support perspective, and to have fun spending someone elses money - how shallow am I
