Astronomy in Indigenous Communities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p><span>Astronomy in Indigenous Communities (AIC), previously named Astronomy for Canadian Indigenous People (ACIP), aims to use astronomy as a development tool for Indigenous People in First Nations communities of Canada. AIC’s main objective is to collaborate with First Nations communities to provide students with opportunities to explore the night sky and the universe from both Indigenous and Western perspectives. Via presentations, field trips, activities, and personal interactions with professional astronomers, we aim to stimulate dialogue between the students, their broader community, and astronomers to understand and learn from each other’s perspective of the universe. During the pilot project in 2019, the AIC team worked with two First Nations communities in the Province of Quebec: The Hurons-Wendat near Quebec City and the Abenaki near the city of Trois-Rivieres. We reached young students, members of the communities, as well as teachers. The project had four components: (i) Visiting schools in the First Nations communities to reach young Indigenous students, (ii) facilitating a visit for those students to the Mont-Megantic Observatory, (iii) organising an outreach event for participating communities and (iv) organising a webinar on astronomy for teachers. The pilot project was funded by the International Astronomical Union Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU OAD), the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and the Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ). In 2020 version of AIC, we are targeting three communities near the city of Montreal.</span></p>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".