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Here’s a report on the 43rd TAS Municipal School Program.
Today we visited the municipal school no. 6 at Bapunagar, 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 the interactive session. They were fascinated by all slides of solar system but especially Aurora & Space Shuttle slides. 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 – how hot the sun is, who was the first to go to the moon, etc’ created some interesting debates. Some exceptionally bright students answered my questions with amazing clarity and were awarded prizes at the end of the presentation. After the slide show, all were shown the gibbous Moon through the telescope. They were particularly amazed to see the craters. And when they knew that that small bubble size holes are no smaller than 50 kms, they were spellbound. Both, the teachers and students, were especially keen to have us come again to give them a deeper understanding.
The area school cluster head along with Municipal school board members visited the place and were glad too.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: The principal who was very enthusiastic, Jigar Darji & Ravi Gamit for nice set up and Urvi Vyas for photo documentation. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : Muni school Hindi No – 6, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 06-03-2009
3. Time : 6:10 to 8:00 pm
4. Object observed : Moon
5. Participants : 112
6. Volunteers : 1
7. Photo : Urvi Vyas
8. Resource Persons : 2
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Mohammed Sheikh, Yashraj Patel, Priyanka Chauhan.
P.S. : From school we went to Vintage car farm to see cars and have dinner. Since the farm was on the eastern outskirt of the city, the Saturn in Leo was clearly visible. Suddenly, we thought of showing Saturn to all, through the telescope. We were nearly 17 of us in a group, but then the restaurant staff, cooks, servants and other security men (nearly 35 of them) also came & enjoyed the beautiful Saturn with closed rings.
Tanmaye Vyas
+91 9327019254
+91 9979861071
Here’s a report on the 43rd TAS Municipal School Program.
Today we visited the municipal school no. 6 at Bapunagar, 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 the interactive session. They were fascinated by all slides of solar system but especially Aurora & Space Shuttle slides. 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 – how hot the sun is, who was the first to go to the moon, etc’ created some interesting debates. Some exceptionally bright students answered my questions with amazing clarity and were awarded prizes at the end of the presentation. After the slide show, all were shown the gibbous Moon through the telescope. They were particularly amazed to see the craters. And when they knew that that small bubble size holes are no smaller than 50 kms, they were spellbound. Both, the teachers and students, were especially keen to have us come again to give them a deeper understanding.
The area school cluster head along with Municipal school board members visited the place and were glad too.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: The principal who was very enthusiastic, Jigar Darji & Ravi Gamit for nice set up and Urvi Vyas for photo documentation. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : Muni school Hindi No – 6, Bapunagar, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 06-03-2009
3. Time : 6:10 to 8:00 pm
4. Object observed : Moon
5. Participants : 112
6. Volunteers : 1
7. Photo : Urvi Vyas
8. Resource Persons : 2
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Mohammed Sheikh, Yashraj Patel, Priyanka Chauhan.
P.S. : From school we went to Vintage car farm to see cars and have dinner. Since the farm was on the eastern outskirt of the city, the Saturn in Leo was clearly visible. Suddenly, we thought of showing Saturn to all, through the telescope. We were nearly 17 of us in a group, but then the restaurant staff, cooks, servants and other security men (nearly 35 of them) also came & enjoyed the beautiful Saturn with closed rings.
Tanmaye Vyas
+91 9327019254
+91 9979861071
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