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Here’s a report on the 46th TAS Program.
Today we visited the Observation Home at Khanpur, Ahmedabad.
We thought of explaining the subject to those children who have either committed some crime or were bagging at cross roads and no one to take care of them. This is run by Ahmedabad District Juvenile Protection Center Authority.
As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the children and superintendent.
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 vanishing crescent phase. During the interactive session that followed, all the slides of solar system fascinated them all. Since very few of them were literate, we had to explain with very common terms. Questions were asked with fear in mind that no one will answer, but they remembered good amount of data. And we happily awarded prizes at the end of the presentation. We tried to motivate them to leave all bad habits and instead divert their energy in study.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Atul Karwal - DCP Traffic who helped me contacting authority, Mr Tiwari (Superintendent – Observation Room for kind support, Jigar Darji & Stephen Samuel for nice set up & Rajesh Nath joined on my request for photo documentation by stealing time from busy schedule. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : Observation Room, Khanpur, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 17-03-2009
3. Time : 7:00 to 8:00 pm
4. Object observed : Venus
5. Participants : 57
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Jigar Darji & Rajesh Nath
8. Resource Persons : 3
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