Invitation to Italy with the sky in the eyes

Our web pages describe the following ideas:
A Week in Italy for an American Planetarium Operator; A tourist program for planetarians and teachers, for individuals or groups; Guests of the National Meetings of Italian Planetaria; International contest for sundial makers (Shadows of time); Astronomical tour in Brescia area; Public evenings in Serafino Zani Astronomical Observatory.

Each year, since 1996, Serafino Zani Astronomical Observatory has been organizing an appointment called "A Week in Italy for an American Planetarium Operator" in collaboration with the Mobile Planetarium Committee of the International Planetarium Society and Learning Technology Inc. An American planetarium operator who wins this contest receives a chance to get to know Italian culture, to work with students and to do some site seeing. The planetarian who wins this trip presents lessons in English with the itinerant planetarium Starlab to Italian students of English. A similar week has been organized for a French planetarium operator, in collaboration with the Association of French-Speaking Planetariums, and for a Spanish planetarium operator. The planetarians who wins these trips presents lessons in French or in Spanish to Italian students with the itinerant planetarium Starlab.