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Here’s a report on the 32nd TAS Municipal School Program.
Today we visited the municipal school no.7 at Rajpur, Gomtipur, Ahmedabad. Yesterday, we came to same school building but that was no.1. Actually the school no 1 has all boys and school no 7 has all the girl students.
As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the students and the authorities excitedly awaiting the program.
The poster display was set up for the students to explore the mysteries of the solar system at their own pace. And we watched them peruse the information and discuss the same with their friends.
The program started with observation of Venus. They were particularly amazed to see phase of Venus. During the interactive session that followed, the Solar and Aurora slides fascinated them all. Another wonderful thing that gave us tremendous satisfaction is that the teachers too got into the spirit of things and participated wholeheartedly in the question – answer sessions that interspersed the presentation! Questions like what is the surface temperature of the sun, who was the first person to space from India’ created some interesting debates. Some bright students answered my questions and were awarded prizes at the end of the presentation. Both, the teachers and students, were especially keen to have us come again to give them a deeper understanding.
Due to vehicle noise at school, we faced some problem during interactive session yesterday; so today they arranged a sound system. Other interesting thing today was, number of family members of teachers and neighbors visited the school. Teachers from other Municipal schools also visited and asking us to arrange for the similar program. All came to see (verify) Venus showing phase like Moon! So, we rearranged telescope after the school program. It was highest number of participants in Municipal school till date.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: school staff, Stephen & Jigar for nice set up and Urvi Vyas for photo documentation. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary :
1. Venue : Muni school No -7, Rajpur, Gomtipur, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 18-02-2009
3. Time : 6:20 to 8:00 pm
4. Object observed : Venus
5. Participants : 190
6. Volunteers : 1
7. Photo : Urvi Vyas
8. Resource Persons : 2
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Tabbasum Nasreen, Firdosbanu Amjadali, Shamrin Noormohammed
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