36th Annual Report (2023-24)

85 19th Decembe r : Sa r aswa t i Vishwavidyalay, Talwade, 60 s t u d e n t s , t h r e e t e a c h e r s , conducted by Rupesh Labde. 21st December: Tara Mobile Creche, 90 students and three teachers, conducted by Shivani Pethe. 22nd December: Dnyanganga Vishwavidyalaya Shirur, 150 students, ten teachers, conducted by Rupesh Labde and Tushar Purohit. 28th December: Chandranarayan B a l w a d e E n g l i s h S c h o o l , Jaysingpur, 88 students and eight teachers, conducted by Prasad Adekar. TeacherTraining: 6th Novembe r : Agas t ya International Foundation, Ba r ama t i , 80 t e a che r s , conducted by Rupesh Labde. 14th December: SVS High School, Khadi, 300 teachers, conducted by Rupesh Labde. Science toys demonstration, Astronomy workshops, and Skywatchevents: Science Toys and Skywatching session at Junnar Taluka Science Exhibition ( 2 January ) Venue: Samarth Engineering College, Belhe. Participants: 300. ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ The skywatching event at Andur, Tuljapur. (4 January) About 200 school students, their parents and teachers got a lot of information during this event at Gramin VidnyanKendra, Andur. Science Club Talk at SPCollege. (4 January) A talk onBasic Astronomy andCareers. Avasara Academy, LavaleWorkshop - (12 January) Science Toys Demonstration session and Skywatching for students and teachers. About 120 students attended the session. Skywatching Event and Basic Astronomy Session - (17 January) Venue: SBESCollege, Chatrapati Sambhaji Nagar. About 250 students and the public attended the event. Skywatching Event at Indapur - (23 January) The Panchayat Samiti office in Indapur arranged the event. About 1600 students and 60 teachers attended the event. TelescopeMakingWorkshop: 22ndDecember: A telescope-makingworkshopwas conducted by Tushar Purohit andMaharudraMate for participants from IIT Gandhinagar. Regular Friday Skywatching sessions saw an attendance of 150, while a special sky session organised for Foundation Day had about 200 people enjoying viewing the skywith telescopes. TelescopeMakingWorkshopatGLAUniversity,Mathura:(1-2 February) The event was organised at the Centre for Cosmology, Astrophysics and Space Science (CCASS) in GLAU, also an I-CARD. The workshop's target audience was school students and volunteers from the GLA Astronomy Club, who will carry out regular public outreach with the two telescopesmade. Telescope Making Workshop at MVPS,Nashik(27-28March) IUCAA and MVPS, Nashik, jointly arranged the workshop, and 25 teachers participated in this training.