Prog : 55, 12-05-2009,

Questions at the exit time!

Prayer time.

Hello!

Here’s a report on the 55th TAS Municipal School Program.

Today we visited the municipal school no. 2 at Naranpura, Ahmedabad. This school is adopted by “Samvedna NGO” for better education of under privileged students.

As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the students and the authorities excitedly awaiting the program. All the students prayed before they entered the class.

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 interactive session. Nearly all the slides fascinated them all. Questions like – How can a flag remain horizontal without air, what are sun spots, etc’ created some interesting debates. Some exceptionally bright students answered my questions with amazing clarity. Due to lack of time, we couldn’t conduct question-answer session. Both, the teachers and students, were especially keen to have us come again to give them a deeper understanding. Students gathered at the end asked many questions.

We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Jigar Darji for photo documentation & set up and Ravi Gamit for assistance. We thank them all for their interest.

Summary:
1. Venue : Gandhinagar Municipal School-2, Naranpura, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 12-05-2009
3. Time : 8:30 to 9:30 am
4. Object observed : None
5. Participants : 52
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Jigar Darji
8. Resource Persons : 2

Tanmaye Vyas
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Prog : 54, 11-05-2009 at Girls Polytechnic, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad

Enjoying poster detail.

Hello!

Here’s a report on the 54th TAS Program.

Today we visited Girls Polytechnic, Ahmedabad. We were special called to deliver lecture for students studying in EC (Electronics & Communication). They wanted to understand secrets of our solar system and also they wanted some guidance for making career in Astronomy.

As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the students and the authorities excitedly awaiting the program.

The poster display was set up on the floor for the students to explore the mysteries of the solar system at their own pace. This time we also displayed posters used during 100 HA. And we watched them peruse the information and discuss the same with their friends. All of them, wrote nearly every bit of information mentioned in the posters.

The program started with interactive session. The session started with Milkyway information and ended up with Earth. Since they were all Diploma Engineering students, they interacted at nearly every slides with their study point of view. 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 session! Questions like – temperature of sun’s core, different types of radiations from sun, beautiful aurora’s formation, etc’ created some interesting debates.

At the end we displayed all the planetary posters on the table. Few of them noted some information from posters. They also offered cold drink at the end, in the piercing heat of 42 degree centigrade.

Both, the teachers and students, were especially keen to start their own astronomy club with our help. It was really good news. We guided them in depth and promised to visit again with more facts and fun.

We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Mrs. Monali – a faculty at college, Jigar Darji for set up and photo documentation. We thank them all for their interest.

Summary:
1. Venue : Girls Polytechnic, Opp. Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad
2. Date : 11-05-2009
3. Time : 3:30 to 5:00 pm
4. Object observed : None
5. Participants : 37
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Jigar Darji
8. Resource Persons : 1
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) :

Tanmaye Vyas
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+91 9979861071

Prog : 53, 02-05-2009 "Astronomy Day" celebration at Vikram Sarabhai Community Science Center, University area

Hello,

Here's a report on 53rd TAS program.

Wish you all a Happy Astronomy Day. Today we celebrated Astronomy Day with students of 10-15 years of age group along with their parents at Vikram Sarabhai Community Science Center (CSC), Opp. University building, Ahmedabad.

CSC arranged a week long session for astronomy enthusiast students. They were given hands on experience by different practicals & theories during the week. We were called to throw light on title "Exploring Solar System". The session was very interesting due to presence of parents. They also participated in interaction with joy with their kids.

The journey couldn't complete from Sun to Plutoid, instead all insisted to explain more about Sun-Earth-Moon system. We made them understand from Geography to Astronomy.

Summary :

1.Venue : Community Science Center, University, Ahmedabad

2.Date : 02-05-2009

3.Time : 4:00 - 5:40 pm

4.Session : Exploring solar system

5.Participants : 40

6.Volunteers : Jigar Darji

7.Photos : Jigar Darji

8.Resource : 0

9.Winners : All were given Saturn bookmark.

Tanmaye Vyas

+919327019254

+919979861071