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Here’s a report on the 65th TAS School Program.
Today we visited V. D. Desai Wadiwala School, Surat, Gujarat.
This was a special 3 days program. The program was arranged to celebrate and enjoy two milestones in astronomy history. One was celebration of 40th anniversary of Moon Landing on 20th July and second was to observe the Longest Solar Eclipse of this century.
As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the students and the authorities excitedly awaiting the program. There was inauguration function too.
The banner display of 4’ x 3’ was set up for the students to explore the mysteries of the solar system & monthly star charts at their own pace. And we watched them peruse the information and discuss the same with their friends.
The session started with ‘Journey to Space’ show. During the interactive session that followed, nearly 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! Many different questions created interesting debates. Some exceptionally bright students answered my questions with amazing clarity and were awarded prizes at the end of the presentation.
The hall was huge with projector & screen to show the ‘Journey to Space’ program for the students of 4th standard to 10th standards. In every show they were roughly 170 of them. To cover every student, we screened 20 shows and interactive sessions to cover nearly 3494 participants.
This time, Pratham Ambala - one of the experts in model rocketry from our country (who participated in world rocketry competition, twice) was present in the program. He arranged to fly paper rockets every hour during 3 days long stay. He also screened about rocketry around the world along with Mr. Devmurari.
Due to heavy clouds in the city, the Solar eclipse was not possible to observe. But we arranged for poster making competition to sustain their interest and gave prizes to winners.
The program was covered by many media like : Paper media – Gujarat Samachar, Divya Bhaskar, Surat Samachar, Rajasthan Patrika, Gujarat Mitr & Sandesh. E TV gave good coverage over television too.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Pratham Ambala, Ravindra Ambala, Neel Shah, Devmuraribhai, Prakash Leuva, Mayur, Mittal. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : V.D.Desai (Wadiwala) School, Surat, Gujarat
2. Date : 20 to 22-07-2009
3. Time : Full days
4. Object observed : -
5. Participants : 3494
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Ravi, Neel, Nikul,
8. Resource Persons : 3
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Neel, Kuldeep, Kush, Love, Jeet, Neel, Surpriya
10 Shows : 20 + 2 rocketry
Tanmaye Vyas
+91 9327019254
+91 9979861071
Here’s a report on the 65th TAS School Program.
Today we visited V. D. Desai Wadiwala School, Surat, Gujarat.
This was a special 3 days program. The program was arranged to celebrate and enjoy two milestones in astronomy history. One was celebration of 40th anniversary of Moon Landing on 20th July and second was to observe the Longest Solar Eclipse of this century.
As usual, we were accorded a warm welcome by the students and the authorities excitedly awaiting the program. There was inauguration function too.
The banner display of 4’ x 3’ was set up for the students to explore the mysteries of the solar system & monthly star charts at their own pace. And we watched them peruse the information and discuss the same with their friends.
The session started with ‘Journey to Space’ show. During the interactive session that followed, nearly 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! Many different questions created interesting debates. Some exceptionally bright students answered my questions with amazing clarity and were awarded prizes at the end of the presentation.
The hall was huge with projector & screen to show the ‘Journey to Space’ program for the students of 4th standard to 10th standards. In every show they were roughly 170 of them. To cover every student, we screened 20 shows and interactive sessions to cover nearly 3494 participants.
This time, Pratham Ambala - one of the experts in model rocketry from our country (who participated in world rocketry competition, twice) was present in the program. He arranged to fly paper rockets every hour during 3 days long stay. He also screened about rocketry around the world along with Mr. Devmurari.
Due to heavy clouds in the city, the Solar eclipse was not possible to observe. But we arranged for poster making competition to sustain their interest and gave prizes to winners.
The program was covered by many media like : Paper media – Gujarat Samachar, Divya Bhaskar, Surat Samachar, Rajasthan Patrika, Gujarat Mitr & Sandesh. E TV gave good coverage over television too.
We acknowledge the gracious support of the following people in making this program a success: Pratham Ambala, Ravindra Ambala, Neel Shah, Devmuraribhai, Prakash Leuva, Mayur, Mittal. We thank them all for their interest.
Summary:
1. Venue : V.D.Desai (Wadiwala) School, Surat, Gujarat
2. Date : 20 to 22-07-2009
3. Time : Full days
4. Object observed : -
5. Participants : 3494
6. Volunteers : 0
7. Photo : Ravi, Neel, Nikul,
8. Resource Persons : 3
9. Winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : Neel, Kuldeep, Kush, Love, Jeet, Neel, Surpriya
10 Shows : 20 + 2 rocketry
Tanmaye Vyas
+91 9327019254
+91 9979861071
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