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    This document discusses volunteering for the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). It provides background on the IOAA and describes the roles of volunteers as team leaders, observers, problem composers, and more. The document outlines volunteer responsibilities like accompanying student teams, participating in discussions, and ensuring teams follow schedules. It emphasizes that the IOAA relies on volunteers to make the competition possible and shares experiences from past olympiads.

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    This document discusses volunteering for the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). It provides background on the IOAA and describes the roles of volunteers as team leaders, observers, problem composers, and more. The document outlines volunteer responsibilities like accompanying student teams, participating in discussions, and ensuring teams follow schedules. It emphasizes that the IOAA relies on volunteers to make the competition possible and shares experiences from past olympiads.

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    Being Volunteers in IOAA

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    This document discusses volunteering for the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA). It provides background on the IOAA and describes the roles of volunteers as team leaders, observers, problem composers, and more. The document outlines volunteer responsibilities like accompanying student teams, participating in discussions, and ensuring teams follow schedules. It emphasizes that the IOAA relies on volunteers to make the competition possible and shares experiences from past olympiads.

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    To be an ‘LO’ (read ‘volunteer’) in

    International Olympiad on
    Astronomy and Astrophysics
    Hakim L. Malasan
     Astronomy Division & Bosscha Obs., FMIPA,ITB
     Vice President, Div. C Education, Outreach and Heritage, IAU
     General Secretary, South East Asia Astronomy Network
    (SEAAN)
     Treasurer and Manager in Tim Pembina Olimpiade Astronomi
    (TPOA)
    [email protected], [email protected]
    Astronomy Olympiads
    • The oldest : International Astronomy Olympiad
    (IAO) 1996-now
    http://www.issp.ac.ru/iao/
    2015: Asian Pacific Astronomy Olympiad (APAO) was
    founded
    • The International Olympiad on Astronomy and
    Astrophysics (IOAA) 2007-now
    No official homepage … 
    but see
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Olympiad_on
    _Astronomy_and_Astrophysics
    IOAA Volunteers 2
    My track in the int’l olympiad
     2005: Team Leader, 2nd Asian Pacific Astronomy Olympiad, Irkutz, Russia
     2006: Team Leader, XIth International Astronomy Olympiad (IAO), Mumbai,
    India
     2008: Chair of problem composer, Academic Comm., 2nd IOAA, Bandung
     2009: Team leader, 3rd International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    Tehran, Iran
     2010: Team leader, 4th International Earth Science Olympiad, Yogyakarta
    Team leader, XVth International Astronomy Olympiad, Sudak, Crimea
     2011: Team leader, 5th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics ,
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
     2012: Team leader, 6th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    Katowice-Krakow, Poland
    2012: Team leader, XVIIth International Astronomy Olympiad, Gwangju, Korea
     2013: Team leader, 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    Volos, Greece
     2014: Team leader, 8th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics ,
    Suceava, Romania
    2014: Team leader, 8th International Earth Science Olympiad, Santander, Spain
     2015: Team Leader, 9th International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics,
    Magelang, Indonesia
    IOAA Volunteers 3
    From IOAA Statute (2007)
    ..The competition is conducted in the friendly
    atmosphere designed to promote future
    collaborations and to encourage friendships in the
    scientific community..

    #13
    …
    f) The organizer must provide the teams with guides
    …

    IOAA Volunteers 4
    It is a simple fact …
    Science Olympiad would not exist without
    volunteers!
    Science Olympiad has always benefitted from a
    virtual army of dedicated, passionate and
    creative educators, parents, administrators and
    mentors who perform professional interaction
    and generally make Science Olympiad work.

    IOAA Volunteers 5
    Volunteers in the network
     IOAA President
     IOAA General Secretary
     IOAA Coordinators
    Organizing Committee

    • Ministry of Education and


    International Board Meeting
    Culture
    volunteers
    • Local Government
    • Team Leaders
    • Schools
    • Observers

    Anticipation
    IOAA Participants (High School Problem solver
    Students) Interfaces
    … and willing to do “junky
    jobs”
    IOAA Volunteers 6
    General profiles of participant
    • Team leaders and observers:
    – Scientists (Professors, PhDs, M.Scs)
    – Graduate Students (Doctoral Students)
    – Science teachers
    – Officers
    • Students:
    – 16 years<age < 20 years
    • Important guests: Prominent scientists,
    bureaucrats
    IOAA Volunteers 7
    Team leaders, juries,
    committees

    Students and leaders

    IOAA Volunteers 8
    These are needed as volunteers in
    IOAA
    • Personality, authority
    • Good language (English AND mother language of the team)
    • Good knowledge of cross-culture
    • Humanist, friendly

    … and most of all …


    Have knowledge in astronomy
     Popular astronomy
     History in astronomy
     Ethno-astronomy
     Archeo-astronomy

    IOAA Volunteers 9
    A little bit on astronomy

    IOAA Volunteers 10
    Orion: The hunter =
    Waluku (plough)

    Javenese
    perception on
    southern sky
    IOAA Volunteers 12
    ..and a more seriously one..

    IOAA Volunteers 13
    An introduction
    Untuk menentukan waktu menanam padi
    setiap tahunnya, petani di pulau Jawa sejak
    abad ke-17 mempunyai kebiasaan
    menggunakan gugus bintang tujuh (Pleiades,
    Kartika). Pengamatannya dilakukan dengan
    menggunakan selongsong bambu yang diisi
    penuh dengan air, lalu diarahkan ke gugus
    bintang tujuh di arah timur. Isi air yang
    tumpah akan menandakan bahwa posisi
    gugus bintang tujuh itu cukup tinggi untuk
    menjadi petanda dimulainya musim menanam
    padi dalam tahun tersebut.
    Selongsong bambu yang dimaksud memiliki
    panjang 100 cm, diameternya 10 cm. Ketika
    selongsong bambu diarahkan ke gugus
    bintang tujuh ternyata air yang tumpah
    adalah sebanyak 0.785 liter.
    Astronomical analysis … (this is one of
    the problems in the National Science
    Olympiad)
    Cycle of activity
    1. Meet and greet the team at the airport;
    2. Split leaders from the students;
    3. Accompany students all the time, remind them for
    the competition rounds and important activities,
    appeal students to mingle;
    4. (To some extend) involve in discussions on
    astronomical topics with students;
    5. Have fun with students;
    6. Bring the students to the leaders after competition;
    7. Help students prepare for performance;
    8. Make a memorial farewell party.

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    Brazil 2012
    Greece 2013
    Poland 2011 Romania 2014

    IOAA Volunteers 17
    Unique thing in Romania

    Student’s volunteers
    are teachers

    Leader’s volunteers
    are students!

    IOAA Volunteers 18
    Advises
    • Observe rundown carefully
    • Abide the rule (especially for the competition)
    • Remind students on schedules
    • Be a good discussion partner
    • Entertain students after each competition round
    • Start communicating with team through social
    media, and ..
    • be patient and responsive throughout the period
    of IOAA

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    Happy volunteering in IOAA
    2015!

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