35th Annual Report (2022-2023) - ENGLISH

77 5. SPPU CSEC arranged a Sc i enc e Wo r k shop and Hands-on Toys activities on 20 December 2022 for students from CSEC, SPPU. This was held at IUCAA MVS campus.40 students with their parents attended this workshop. 6. A visit and Science workshop were organized at MVS on 21 December 2022. Science Toys Demonstration was c ondu c t ed f o r 41 MSc students from the P. D. Patel Institute of Applied Sciences, Gujarat. 7. The science toys Demo and the skywatching event were held at Samarth College of Engineering on the occasion of the Junnar Taluka Science Exhibition on 29 December 2022. A total of 800 school and college students attended these sessions. 8. Science Demo and Skywatch session at R D Oswal school, Triputi was conducted for 600 students of 6th to 10th standard and parents on 30 December 2022. 9. Science Toys session at Chincholi Kashid, Junnar - Monday, 02 January 2023. This was a rural outreach event for 90 school students and 06 teachers from the S ama r t h M a d h u k a r r a o Vidyalaya, Chincholi, Kashid. 10. Sky Observation event at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Vidyalaya, Nirgudsar 04 January 2023. Science toy demonstrations and a night sky observation program were conducted for 700 school students, their parents, and schoolteachers. A total of 900 people attended the session. 11. Khed taluka Science exhibition - 06 January 2023. Science Toys demonstration session was held at the Khed taluka science exhibition organized at Gladiolus English Medium School, Khed, A total of 400 students attended the session. 12. Science Toys demo for Eureka Science Centre, Pune - 23 January. 24 students and 04 teachers visited MVS and attended the session. 13. Volunteers Training at Ruia College was conducted on 29 January 2023. 20 students fromMSc. participated in the session. Different science toys were made by the students which then they used as teaching aids in school sessions. A talk was also conducted before the session on science communication as a career option and basic astronomy on 14December 2022. 14. Science Toys demonstration session was arranged at Vidya Vikas Mandir School, Karandi Village on Monday, 30 January. The session was organized by NSS camp students from the Gokhale Institute of Technology, Pune. 60 school students attended this session. 15. Science Toys Workshop for underprivileged children was conducted at Wadala, Mumbai on 7 February. Around 25 students from classes 8 to 10 attended the demonstration session. 16. Thursday workshops at MVS, IUCAA: A Science immersion workshop was arranged for the iTeach PCMC English Medium School on 16 March. 84 students and 05 teachers attended theworkshop. 17. Demo sessions at Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara, 28 – 29 March 2023: A two-day Science and Astronomy demonstration session was organized at the campus of the Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara by DIET, Phaltan. 300 students from classes 8 to 11 attended the hands-onworkshop. *The above sessions were conducted by Rupesh Labade, Tushar Purohit, Maharudra Mate, Mayuri Patwardhan, and Shivani Pethe fromthe IUCAAScipop Team.