30th Annual Report 2017-18

164 PublicOutreach RPL gives special attention to public outreach and is open to enthusiastic individuals for any help/advice they require regarding astronomy related activities. RPL members deliver informative lectures related to astronomy, and instrumentation in astronomy in schools and colleges (as seen here) to make students aware of the career opportunities in the field of astronomy. They also educate them with the latest developments in this field. The RPL has initiated the process of making videos for general public, which will describe key radio astronomy concepts in lucid manner and documenting the working of big international facilities run in India like the GMRT (which is one of the world's largest radio telescope). All these material will be freely available on our RPL website (www.iucaa.in/~rpl ) and youtube channel. RPL has also launched pages on the social media like facebook, twitter and youtube for propagation of radio astronomy in India. On National Science Day we exhibit many posters and working models based on astronomy, and radio astronomy where general public can understand it very easily. Science Exhibition Fergusson College, Pune had hosted its annual science exhibition inAugust 2017, was inaugurated by Joydeep Bagchi . The PRL team interactedwith the students and cleared their several doubts and guided themwith their projects.