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TelescopeMakingWorkshops IUCAA SciPOP in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, New Delhi, conducted a Telescope Making Workshop at Navodaya Vidyalayas, Hyderabad, during July 5 - 22, 2019. Tushar Purohit was the resource person. Totally 41 large (5 inch) reflecting telescopes weremade by school teachers and students. LIGO - India andTMTOutreachWeek The team of outreach personnel from IUCAAwere representing the LIGO-India and the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) projects at the Vigyan Samagam Science Mega projects exhibition at Bengaluru. With guidance from project leaders, over the past few months, a set of ten posters, a collection of short films as well as some interactive and live demonstrations have been put together by them. These are now a part of a grand pavilion showcasingMega projects having India in a major partnership. Many volunteers have also been trained to explain the posters and exhibits to all visitors. The special OutreachWeek of LIGO-India, duringAugust 13 - 17, 2019, was coordinated byVaibhav Savant withAnkit Bhandari and Rameshwar Bankar. The events included 5 talks for the general public and students by several scientists. Live/interactive demonstrations like Space Quest, Black Hole Pong, Stretch and Squash, LIGO-in-your-hands were arranged. Also, other interferometers were arranged for the visitors. For celebrating the TMT Outreach Week, during September 17 - 21, 2019, Samir Dhurde (as coordinator), Shivani Pethe and Rupesh Labade performed a special themed play combined with science demonstrations. It highlighted the developments since the time of Galileo Galilei in a lucid and attractive manner via DIY optics experiments. Everyone in the audience, especially school students, delved into the wonderful world of light and its properties withGalileo himself joining them! No. 120 - October 2019 12