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33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 167 basics and experiments involving analysis of data obtained from both the Ooty Radio Telescope, and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope.Although, having a school with participants in the same physical space has its benefits, the online format opened uppossibilities of a participant fromBrazil presenting work done by her team in India, and one from Bangladesh, all working together and interacting via the web. The teacher mentors worked very closely with the student participants. In addition to the presentations by the teams on the experiments they had done, a discussion on career opportunities in astronomy and astrophysics, and a quiz among the different teams were held during the last two days. Eighteen resource persons from both IUCAAand NCRA-TIFR took part in the school. The core organizing group consisted of Ashish Mhaske, Avinash Deshpande, Dhruba J.Saikia, Jameer Manur, and Prakash Arumugasamy (all from IUCAA), and Ruta Kale and Subhashis Roy (both fromNCRA-TIFR). Acourse on Stars and Stellar Systems, consisting of 36 video presentations separated into 10 modules on varied aspects of stars and stellar evolution was made by NRC of IUCAA for ARPIT - 2019. The modules are on Stars and Stellar Evolution by Sarita Vig (IIST, Thiruvananthapuram), Stellar Variability by Sukanta Deb (Cotton University, Guwahati), Stars and Cosmology by Sivarani Thirupathi (IIA, Bengaluru), Star Clusters and Star Formation by Ram Sagar (IIA, Bengaluru), and Manoj Puravankara (TIFR, Mumbai), Compact Stars by Dipankar Bhattacharya (IUCAA), Astrophysics of Neutron Stars by Sushan Konar (IUCAA), Binary Stellar Systems by Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, Mumbai), The Sun by Dibyendu Nandi (IISER, Kolkata), Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA), and Divya Oberoi (NCRA- TIFR), Helio- and Astero-Seismology by Shravan Hanasoge (TIFR, Mumbai), and Extrasolar Planetsby Anwesh Majumdar (HBCSE, TIFR, Mumbai). In 2020, this course has been offered Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching: ARPIT – 2020