Project ThaiPASS: Thailand-UK Python+Astronomy Summer Schools 2020 and 2021.

项目ThaiPASS（泰英Python+天文学暑期学校）是一个涉及3所英国大学（华威大学、赫尔大学、中央兰开夏大学）和2个泰国合作伙伴（Naresuan大学和NARIT大学）的人类能力建设stem推广项目。ThaiPASS的核心活动是一个为期5天的工作坊，针对16-18岁左右的泰国中学生。学生将接受Python科学计算的实践培训，Python是世界上发展最快的开源编程语言之一，也是从就业能力的角度来看最理想的编程语言之一。学生将学习使用Python来挖掘、分析和可视化数据。这将通过天文学媒介来完成，天文学是最鼓舞人心和影响最大的STEM推动者之一。来自英国的专业天文学家将通过一系列的讲座和实践任务指导学生处理天文数据和产生视觉输出，如天文图像和图表。学生们在离开暑期学校时，将对数据科学在现代科学研究中的作用有一个新的认识，并将受到启发，在暑期学校的范围和时间尺度之外继续学习编码。每个暑期学校都会以“大学和职业”日结束，告诉学生如何在大学阶段和职业生涯中进一步学习STEM课程。泰通项目将解决泰国在科学和信息通信技术教育方面的许多挑战，泰国已经远远落后于其他正在摆脱中等收入陷阱的国家。在ThaiPASS，我们将把stfc资助的科学带给可能没有机会获得此类培训的新受众。在ThaiPASS开发的技能是最新的，相关的，很容易转移到广泛的工业和学术应用中。我们在2018年和2019年举办ThaiPASS的经验告诉我们，我们的工作坊与其他当地组织的面向奥林匹克风格培训的“夏令营”不同。过去两年的反馈非常积极，许多以前的参与者继续在各个STEM领域接受高等教育。对于20/21学年的学校，我们将提供更大的活动（参与者人数增加一倍），涵盖更多的天文学主题，并提供单独的教师培训课程。近年来，泰国已经成为天体物理学研究领域的新兴参与者，这要归功于位于清迈、那瑞省NARIT的新一代国际公认的研究人员。朱拉隆功、苏拉那里等。对ThaiPASS项目的投资将是建立强大而持久的泰英协同作用的重要一步，这可以很容易地转化为未来在天体物理学研究和进一步推广活动方面的合作。

Project ThaiPASS (Thai-UK Python+Astronomy Summer School) is a human-capacity building STEM-outreach project involving 3 UK universities (Warwick, Hull, UCLan) and 2 Thai partners (Naresuan and NARIT).The core activity of ThaiPASS is a 5-day workshop aimed at Thai secondary school students age around 16-18. Students will receive hands-on training in scientific computing in Python, one of the world's fastest growing open-source programming languages and one of the most desirable from an employability perspective. Students will learn to use Python to mine, analyse and visualise data. This will be done via the medium of astronomy, which is one of the most inspiring and high-impact STEM enablers. Professional astronomers from the UK will guide students through a series of lectures and hands-on tasks involving handling astronomical data and producing visual output such as astronomical images and graphs. Students will leave the summer school with a new perspective on the role of data science in modern scientific research, and will be inspired to continue to learn coding beyond the scope and time-scale of the summer school. Each summer school concludes with a "university and career" day to inform students on how STEM subjects can be taken further at university level and as a career.The ThaiPASS project will address many of the challenges in science and ICT education in Thailand, which has fallen far behind other countries emerging out of the middle-income trap. At ThaiPASS, we will bring STFC-funded science to new audiences who may not have the opportunity to access such training otherwise. The skills developed at ThaiPASS are current, relevant and easily transferable to a wide range of industrial and academic applications. Our experience with delivering ThaiPASS in 2018 and 2019 has informed us that our workshop is unique from other locally organised "summer camps" which are geared towards Olympiad-style training. Feedback over the past 2 years have been overwhelmingly positive, with many previous participants going on to higher education in various STEM areas. For the 20/21 schools, we will deliver bigger events (doubling the number of participants), cover more topics in astronomy, and provide separate teacher-training sessions.In recent years, Thailand has established itself as an emerging player in astrophysics research thanks to a new generation of internationally recognised researchers at NARIT, Chiang Mai, Naresuan. Chulalongkorn, Suranaree etc. Investment in the ThaiPASS project will be an important step towards forging a strong and lasting Thai-UK synergy, which can easily spin off into future collaborations in astrophysics research and further outreach activities.