Catch a Star 2024

Catch a Star

The idea of the Catch a Star program is to encourage students to work together, to learn about astronomy and discover things for themselves by researching information on an astronomical object.

The goal of the European Astronomy Contest Catch a Star is to stimulate the creativity and independent work of students from European secondary schools, to strengthen and expand their astronomical knowledge and skills, and to help the spread of information technologies in the educational process.

Catch a Star is a contest that has been held as a result of the collaboration between the European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE) and European Southern Observatory (ESO).

On 31 March 2025, 5 groups of SST students submitted their entries into the competition. They are found here: 

TEAM	NAMES	Class	Title and video links
1	MAH HON KAI	S2-06	Asteroids
	NANASOMBAT KANTATHAM	S2-06	LINK
	SIN YONG QI	S2-06
2	GOH RUI JIE THADDEUS	S2-05	Corpernican Revolution
	WONG WEI KAI, LUCAS	S2-06	LINK
	LI SHIYING	S2-08
	SIN YONG QI	S2-06
3	CHIEW LEUNG YIN	S2-01	Supernovas
	LEE XUAN QIANG	S2-03	LINK
4	LAM CAI TZENG, DEXTER	S2-05	Eclipse
	ENZO ANG	S2-06	LINK
	DESSEN ARWIN TAN AHN JOON	S2-05
5	TAY YEOW QIAN DAVIS	S4-03	Black Holes
	GOH MIN WEN, TED	S4-03	LINK
	LUKE GOH REN YONG	S4-03

Team 2, consisting of Rui Jie Thaddeus Goh, Wei Kai Lucas Wong, Shiying Li, and Yong Qi Sin, won the best non-European video prize for their video project on the Copernican revolution.

The prize that they will be awarded is a virtual tour to a professional observatory and a live discussion with an astronomer. More updates will be found here when we completed the virtual tour. 

Catch a Star is a contest that has been held as a result of the collaboration between the European Association for Astronomy Education (EAAE) and European Southern Observatory (ESO). EAAE is thankful to ESO and to Astronomía magazine for their support.