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News Letter December 2008
November 2008 saw the great achievements of Indian Scientists inplacingChandrayan-I in Lunar orbit with the greatest precision and absolutely nohiccups. India is the only nation who could successfully transfer its spacecraft tolunar orbit in the first attempt. Hats off to ISRO and other organizations for thisflawless high tech operation.November 2008 also saw the worst terrorist act against India. Terroristssupposedly came all through Karachi to Mumbai using the sea route andshocked the entire nation by capturing Tajand other hotels. Politicians andnews channels will argue over whether it was a security lapse, or it was a resultof soft laws against terrorism, or it was a part of global terrorism and inevitableetc. But the nation as a whole has to be aware and concerned towards thedanger of terrorism. Be it a village or a small kasba, every Indian must be alertand ready to resist any such thing at local level. Shiksha Sopandeeply mournsover the death of innocent people including the security personals in this attack.The Evening Centers and Sopan Vidyalayacontinued to serve the children asusual but GahanAdhyayanKendra was little mismanaged. PratibhaPoshanYojanais going well. Science Cell was busy in preparing Science kits andconducting orientation programmes. The SanskarCell conducted fewprogrammesin this month.
From the Centers
The Evening Centers at Barasirohi, Ratanpurand SAC continued their regular activities.The involvement of IITK students was litleless as they had their End-SemExaminations.The center coordinators SeemaJiand PramodJiat Barasirohi, PawanJiand DhyanchandJiat SAC and DineshJiand GauravJiatRatanpurmanaged the centers quite well. Allof them have grown up with Shiksha Sopanand are now taking up the responsibilities topass their learning to their juniors.
 
Children studying at SAC evening center 
 
GahanAdhyayanKendra is still facingdifficulties. In this center one needs a regularset of instructors and a center coordinator.With two of our senior workers Rajesh Shuklaand Hanuman leaving GAK as they gotregular employment, and IITK studentshaving their own Exams, we were short of manpower. At present, senior Shiksha Sopanworkers, AmitBajpai(Asst Secretary),ChandrashekharSharma (EC member) and HC Verma(Secretary) are assisting in teachingthere.
Science Cell ActivitiesGahan Adhyan Kendra(GAK)
Deepak Agnihotriand Ritoshhave made a complete 100-experiment kit classifiedin three levels, Lower, Middle and High. In this month the Science cellconcentrated in preparing a one-page write up for each experiment. Ms DeepaDanayak, Project fellow, VigyanPrasar, contributed significantly in this work.They have completed the write ups for 60 experiments and the remaining writeups will be completed soon. VigyanPrasarwill be requested later to publish thiswrite up in book form.
MrBhadauriyateaching English inclass 10 at GAK
We conducted an interview for teachers at GAK in early November.A total of 22persons applied and were interviewed. Some of them were short listed andwere asked to give demo classes at GAK. Only one person Ms Sangeetacouldshow her competence in teaching and was requested to join. Most likely she willbe joining from December 1. She will be teaching Biology at class 9 and 10 andwill also act as the center coordinator. A token honorarium of Rs1500 permonth has been offered to her. Sangeetaalso happens to be our old ShikshaSopan student few years ago.Prof H D Bist, former Professor at IIT Kanpurand coordinator of the NGOSAVIDYA has requested Shiksha Sopan for one set of these experiments forstarting a Science center in some region in Uttarakhand. We have startedworking on this.Another activity in the month of November was a Science Show at Bhulpurvillage in Itawadistrict. An NRI Prof Ram Chaudharyhails from this village andhas established KisanInter College there. The village is in quite interior regionand the population is economically weak. With nominal fee of Rs95 per month atInter level, Rs75 at high school level and Rs25 at Middle school level, theinstitution is doing a great service to the local community.Shiksha Sopan team, H C Verma, AmitBajpai, DepakAgnihotriand Ritosh, wentthere on 20
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November with two boxes of Science experiments. About 25Science teachers from nearby schools and colleges were called toattend theScience Show.
 
The first session wascombined for the 300 plusstudents of KisanInterCollege, the visitors andthe teachers. Afterinauguration, Prof H CVermagave a lecture onthe Moon and theChandrayan-I mission.People in this remote areawere spell bound by seeingthe photographs of theIn the second session, ShriAmitBajpaiand RitoshJiconducted Scienceexperiments show for the children and Prof H C Vermaand Deepak JiconductedScience session for the teachers. While the first one was more in theentertainment mode, in the teachers’session the emphasis was on usingscience experiments in classroom teaching. Though these things were quite newfor the teachers in this remote area, some of them were quite enthusiastic inincorporating demo experiments in their teaching.
Prof Ram ChaudharyhelpingProf H C Vermaduring lectureon Chandrayan-IChildren in the long schoolVarandalistening about the MoonA child enjoying balancing aplastic piece on his fingerDr Vermagiving Sopanliterature to Dr Chaudhary
Moon’s surface sent by Chandrayan-I. The general information about the facesand phases was also something very new for them.
A teacher learning concepts of torque from an experiment
Bal Sammelan
A get-together programmewas organized on 16
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November for all children of Shiksha Sopan (class 6 and above) from different centers. Such programmesgive the children of different villages a chance to interact with each other andexperience a larger vision of the society. The children assembled at 9 am in themorning at Student Activity Center in IITK. The first session was playing gamesinvolving physical exercises. The number of children was 100 plus and weredivided in three groups. Shiksha Sopan senior workers planned for the gamesand acted as game instructors to make them play. The groups weredivided insuch a way that each group had children from all the villages.
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