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Here’s a report on the 38th TAS Municipal School Program.
Today we visited the municipal school no. 11 at Saraspur, Ahmedabad.
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 Venus observation. They were particularly amazed to see the phase of the Venus. All were looking at us with doubtful glance as; the Moon was also visible below Venus today. To give correct image, we showed Moon through the telescope too. That satisfied their unsaid doubt.
During the interactive session that followed, all the 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 – ‘who was the first Indian to go to space and who was first to go to the Moon?’ created some interesting debates. Today one of the resource persons from our team Stephen Samuel called his nephews to participate in the show as they were staying nearby and were studying in 7th & 5th standards. They answered nearly all my questions with amazing clarity.
Some exceptionally bright students like Kishan Waghela answered my questions was awarded prize 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.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Jigar Darji & Stephen Samuel for set up and Urvi Vyas for the photo documentation. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : Muni school No -11, Saraspur, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 27-02-2009
3. Time : 6:30 to 8:00 pm
4. Object observed : Venus, Moon
5. Participants : 65
6. Volunteers : 1
7. Photo : Urvi Vyas
8. Resource Persons : 2
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Kishan Waghela & Yash Samuel
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