The PART Initiative: Student-Led Project to Provide Accessible Radio Telescopes for Rural Education

Summary

The PART (Project for Accessible Radio Telescopes) Initiative is a student-led project by five participants from Narrabundah College, ACT, through the Science Mentors ACT program. Their goal is to design, manufacture, and distribute simple but reliable radio telescopes to rural educators and students to support astronomy education. The initiative aims to make astronomical observation tools more accessible to underserved schools and communities.