...AS a tribute to Srinivasa Ramanujan - mathamatics wizard, year 2012 is declared
as year of Mathematics by Hon'ble Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh. Team of
Science Communicators and the authority thought of celebrating the same in
different way. Science Express train has an educative training room; which is purposely
used for Teacher training, meeting sessions and other events. Science Communicators shown keen interest. “Maths
an interesting learning” must be conducted at Science Express; became conversation piece.
Tribute to Mathematicians |
Making
of "Celebration of Mathematics Year 2012"
What to do? What
suppose to be shared/presented? Who would be target audience? What could be the maximum timeline? How to
generate interest in mathematics? What will be the hands-on activities for participants? and etc. Last but not the least, how to manage
the regular timeline with Science Express exhibition.
Well, it said “Make a mountain
out of a mole hill, can’t make heads or tails of makeup one’s mind”. With the
spirit of such lively mind, quickly one by one each ‘Wh’ questioned were disappeared.
Few Science Communicators took the
charge initially, remaining choose to manage the exhibition show during the
workshop.
AT Khadaki – Pune location the
first Mathematics interactive session held between 8 Science Communicators and 20
Primary Mathematics teachers. The response was much appreciating and positive than
expected, which gave flame to this creative thought and Science Communicator decided
to continue the same at each station at least with one program.
This activity
became so interesting that teachers started demanding for more such programs
for Maths as well as for Biodiversity, which of-course was taken up as a sincere
effort and delivered too.
Brief
of Program:
Two Mathematics and One
Biodiversity Workshop has been conducted successfully so far and few more are on pipeline.
> Being
familiar to each other and the brief of total activity
> Four
different subjects were presented by different team member.
> Mathematics activities: explanations and presentation shared with actual 3-D
models.
> Biodiversity workshop: started with the basic knowledge and further taken up
to the India as one of the big Biodiversity hot-spots.
> As
a hands-on activity each team member was requested to prepare 3-D model from
the 2-D chart. (according to the figure and instructions given on the chart
paper)
Science Communicators Presenting Session on Biodiversity |
Teachers at hands-on activity |
> At
the end-of-session, feedbacks were collected and the participants were awarded
with certificate along with the Mathematics or Biodiversity material kit respectively.
These sessions were throughout
monitored and in-charged by Mr. Raghav Pandya (Sr. Science Educator), who is associated with Science Express,
since first phase. For each program, he manages to conduct mock
presentation of each Science Communicator with respective presentation. With all
required changes and suggestions, he stand there throughout the preparation. His lively and humorous nature
almost vanish the burden of program and made it a remarkable knowledge sharing
time.
Mr.Raghav Pandya giving certificate and take-away material |
The program was initiated, managed
and supported by Mr. Sudhir Sharma (Science Express Manager), who has been contributing to Science Express since the day first. He made Joy-of-Science
Lab open and main platform for this program, with all the basic need and facilities. He appeals each science
communicator to be part of this activity and to give best of
oneself; and the ‘high five’ was the immediate respond.
I just want to know , how can i join SEBS? please let me know....
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