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There are special days, special places , when and where the sun casts no shadow at noon.
This was the first Eratosthenes experiment between Alexandria and Aswan, 2200 years ago.
It happenned on march 31, 2015 in Kuantan Malaysia
47 schools from 19 countries (and 5 continents) participated to this experiment
7 écoles du projet Eratosthène ont observé l'éclipse partielle de soleil depuis leur cour de récréation:
- Ecole primaire de Saint Félix (France)
- Collège Antonin Perbosc de Lafrançaise (France)>
- Osnovna šola Preska de Medvode (Slovénie)
- Experimental College Agion Anargyron d'Athènes (Grèce)
- Protypo Peiramatiko Gymnasio Zosimaias Scholis d'Ioannina (Grèce)
- Ecole primaire de Lardos, Rhodes (Grèce)
- Istituto Comprensive Buonarotti de Marina di Carrara (Italie)
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4 Greek schools participated to Eratosthenes experiment in Acropolis:
- 3rd High School of Aspropirgos,
- Protypo Peiramatiko Gymnasio Agion Anargyron,
- 3o Γυμνάσιο Iλίου,
- 1st High School of Aigio
- 3rd High School of Aspropirgos,
- Protypo Peiramatiko Gymnasio Agion Anargyron,
- 3o Γυμνάσιο Iλίου,
- 1st High School of Aigio
The older students from Escola Sec. de Palmela , in Portugal, made a video about Eratosthenes experiment (in Portuguese :))
22 schools from 10 countries over 4 continents participated to the december solstice measure
Petros Efstathiou (3rd Junior High School of Ilion, Ilion ,Athens) and Eric Vayssié (Collège Antonin Perbosc, France) met the students of ΠΡΟΤΥΠΟ ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΟ ΑΓΙΩΝ ΑΝΑΡΓΥΡΩΝ, Agii Anargyri, Athens and their teacher Vasilis Kostopoulos.
The Eratosthenes project was presented to the first panhellenic eTwinning congress of Patras, 15 November 2014.
