30th Annual Report 2017-18

174 During 2017 - 18, the IUCAA Outreach personnel have conducted: 26 Science Toys Workshops, 22 Basic Astronomy Workshops, and 22 Campus Visits, with reach to about 4,000 people. Further, the Mobile Planetarium has reached to 47 schools, inwhich about 7,000 students havewitnessed the planetariumshows. REGULAR EVENTS As a part of the Solar Outreach Programme, Helen Mason (University of Cambridge) along with Durgesh Tripathi (IUCAA) interactedwith school students duringNovember 28 - 30, 2017. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 113, January 2018) SOLAR OUTREACH PROGRAMME June 8, 2017: Jayant V. Narlikar (IUCAA), on Collisions in space. August 12, 2017: Avyarthana Ghosh (IUCAA), on Story of a star. September 9, 2017: Sudha Rajamani, and Chaitanya Mungi (IISER, Pune), on Life on Earth: How did it come about? December 16, 2017: Shrikant Pawar (NCCS-MCC, Pune), on Wonders of microbiology. January 13, 2018: Samir Dhurde (IUCAA), on The Moon. February 10, 2018: Shantipal Ohol (Government College of Engineering, Pune), on Robotics. SECOND SATURDAY LECTURES / DEMONSTRATIONS