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33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 168 again due to the pandemic situation. A total of 732 participants have registered for the course before the deadline of December 31, 2019, of which about half are faculty members in colleges and universities. The registered participants are from almost all parts of the country and a few from abroad. The figures show the resource persons and the state-wise distribution of the participants. The course has been coordinated by Dhruba J.Saikia (IUCAA). Results of SWANtenna – 2020 Competition Of the eighteen teams across the country, which had submi t t ed the i r entries by the deadline of September 30, 2020 to d e s i g n a n a n t e n n a element for the Sky Watch Array Network as reported in the October 2020 issue of Khagol, five teams were invited to give presentations based on detailed assessment by a jury panel of eminent antenna experts of the country. The jury headed by Raghunath Shevgaonkar (Former Director, IIT, Delhi, and presently Vice-Chancellor, Bennett University), consisted of SubramanianAnanthakrishnan (Former Dean, NCRA-TIFR, Pune, and presently at the Savitribai Phule Pune University), Ajit T. Kalghatgi (Former Director, R&D, BEL), ShibanKoul (Emeritus Professor, Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, IIT, Delhi), Surendra Pal (Satish Dhawan Professor and Senior Adviser, Satellite Navigation Centre, ISRO), and K. P. Ray (Dean, DIAT). They recommended three teams, whose antenna element design could be prototyped. These three teams, shown here along with the antenna elements they designed are from BITS-Pilani, Goa; Fergusson College(Autonomous), Pune; and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. The SWANtenna-2020 competition was coordinated by the Astronomy Centre for Educators.