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Two-week-long science communication course: A national-level two-week short- term course on “science writing” titled “Wow Science” was organised at IISER Pune from 9 to 21 December. The intense course was conducted by the core team consisting of Dr TV Venkateswaran, VP and Shri Vivek Kannadi, Science Media Centre IISER. This is an annual programme organised by VP to develop young science communicators with an appropriate background in science. At the end of the programme, the third volume of “Scintillate” was published. As an outcome of this workshop, many students have been inspired to take up science communication activities in various forms.
Short-term courses conducted
i) Three-day workshop for college students of North Maharastra at the North Maharastra University Jalgaon, 8-11 June 2019
ii) One-day training programme for school teachers, Dehradun 11 May 2019
iii) Two-day workshop for college teachers at IISER Pune, 8-9 May 2019
iv) Two-day workshop for school teachers at Homi Bhaba Centre for Science Education, 3-4 July 2019
v) Two-day workshop on ‘Strategies of science communication’, ISNA, Kolkata, 14-15 June 2019
vi) Two-day workshop on ‘Social media for scicom’, ISNA, Kolkata, 5-6 July 2019
vii) One-day orientation programme on
scientific temper, Tirupur, 9 August 2019
viii) One-day workshop on ‘Science in visual
media’, CSIR-HRDC, 22 August 2019
ix) One-day workshop on ‘Social media for scicom’, CSIR-HRDC, 23 August 2019
x) Two-day workshop for teachers, Trichy, 3-4
October 2019
xi) Two-day workshop for college teachers,
IISER Pune, 12-13 November 2019
xii) One-day workshop for journalist 21
December 2019
xiii) One-day workshop for journalist 3 January
xiv) Five-day workshop for science teachers, 26 to 30 April 2019
xv) Two-day conference on “Redefining Science Communication for Masses in the Age of Convergence” held on 15 and 16 February 2020 at Madurai for Media Students.
Activity Camps
Science Fusion
A week-long science activity-based programme/ summer workshop, ‘Science Fusion-2019’, was organised exclusively for children up to class 9, during 20-27 May 2019, at Vigyan Prasar, A-50, Sector 62, Noida (UP). Several hands- on activities on science and technology were organised for enabling children to learn and understand science by doing. The objectives of the programme were i) to sensitise children about the activity-based science learning; ii) to
Participants of Science Festival
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