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Teachers Training, Silvassa A training event for teachers from all the Government schools of the Union Territory of Dadra-Nagar Haveli was organised by the Office of Education, DNH on January 30, 2020. Sonal Thorve andAtharva Pathak were the resource persons from IUCAA. The training was aimed at providing the teachers an exposure to Astronomy and to allow them to explore hands-on tools and demonstrations to make teaching Astronomy in schools fun and easy to understand. About 80 teachers participated and enjoyed the training. ThirtyMeterTelescope (TMT) OutreachWeek, Delhi The IUCAA SciPOP team consisting of Rupesh Labade, Shivom Gupta and Vaibhav Sawant helped conduct the TMT outreach week (February 4 - 8, 2020) in National Science Centre, Delhi. They performed a special themed play combined with science demos highlighting the developments since the time of GalileoGalilei. Several lectures by TMT project experts were also conducted, which saw a good response from school and college students. Other Events On January8, 2020, Samir Dhurde gave an inaugural talk at the inauguration function of the astronomy club of Sir Parshurambhau College, Pune. No. 122 - April 2020 13