29th Annual Report (2016-17)

149 The Public Outreach groups have conducted 18 Science Toys workshops, 7 Basic Astronomy workshops, 6 campus visits, and 7 sky-watching programmes with an approximate reach to about 2,500 people. The mobile planetarium (Taramandal) was given out to volunteers from two different organisations trained by IUCAA, thus reaching to about 2,000 people. OTHER REGULAR EVENTS As part of IUCAA’s teacher training efforts, a 2-day Workshop on Hands-on Astronomy was organised at MVS, IUCAA, during October 17 - 18, 2016, for the mentors of a voluntary organisation, ARCH, which has been working in the tribal belt in Gujarat. The workshop was coordinated by Samir Dhurde and Sonal Thorve, with support from MaharudraMate andNilesh Pokharkar. (For details seeKhagol, No. 109, January 2017) WORKSHOP ON HANDS-ON ASTRONOMY NATIONAL SCIENCE DAY 2017