IUCAA Brochure 2024

Public Outreach and Education With an Inherent vision of informing and inspiring the next generation of astronomy enthusiasts IUCAA has been doing proactive outreach to the public since its beginning. It has been a pioneer in this field with the earliest steps by the great science communicators like Prof. Yash Pal and Prof. J. V. Narlikar. Formore than three decades it has grown and now reaches thousands of students, teachers and members of the public every year. Through our well designed educational and outreach programs the IUCAA Scientific Public Outreach Programme (SciPOP) facilitates fun stem learning and practical astronomy. Our regular events like the Second Saturday lectures, science toys and astronomy sessions, telescope making workshops, planetarium and sky watching events allow people to be in touch with IUCAA. The open day on National Science Day is looked forward to, with visitors coming from far off places. The enthusiastic teams from various projects regularly enhance the outreach with their contributions to public and media events. There is also special emphasis on reaching rural audiences who do not usually get access to a research Institute or information about cutting edge science.IUCAA was recently invited to showcase its educational efforts and resources at the G20 Education meeting and at the celebration of the adoption of National Education Policy, where they were also appreciated by the Honourable Prime Minister of India.