Khagol 118

| KHAG L | No. 118 - APRIL 2019 | 08 As per the tradition, there were events for school students prior to the open day. IUCAA Public Outreach personnel conducted a science quiz, along with essay writing, and drawing competitions for the rural students of the Ambegaon Taluka on February 12, 2019. Shreejit Jadhav,Abhishek Rajhans, and Prakash Tripathi (all from IUCAA) enthusiastically encouraged students from 30 rural schools, who competed at the venue generously provided by the New English School, Landewadi. A lot of help also came from the IUCAA Girawali Observatory staff, Nilesh Pokharkar alongwith others. On February 23, 2019, about 350 students from 57 schools in Pune city responded to IUCAA's invitation and participated in another set of inter- school competitions. Students from classes VIII to X took part in the drawing, essay, poetry and science quiz competitions. Prayas Sutar (from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) gave an interactive talk to the teachers, who accompanied the students. After the finals of the quiz competition, all winning students received their prizes from Somak Raychaudhury (Director, IUCAA), which included the students from the rural schools, who were specially invited to IUCAA for a visit that day. All the students were enthused and also very happy to have a chance to interact with the IUCAA scientists during these National Science Day celebrations. A walkthrough and a time-lapse video of the National Science Day 2019 at IUCAA was beautifully composed by Ishan Shinde with the help of Nilkantha Gholap, Shashank Tarpe, and Atharva Pathak, and the same is available at: https://youtu.be/1X5Kb93E3I8. Diyashree Karunakar Devadiga Siddhi Sanjay Deokar Gauri Kerappa Chandanshive Rinku Abhishek Siddhi Santosh Doke Sandesh Sonba Khilari 1st Prize 1st Prize 2nd Prize 2nd Prize 3rd Prize 3rd Prize RURAL SCHOOLS Drawing Competitions Winners CITY SCHOOLS