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Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh, Agastya Tandon.
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Digital Repository of Hands-on Activities:
sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home
Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh, Agastya Tandon.
National Science Day details: iiserpune.ac.in/events/3720/national-science-day-2024-celebration
Link for STEM Ready Website: stemready.acads.iiserpune.ac.in
Link for Phet Simulation: https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/circuit-construction-kit-dc/latest/circuit-construction-kit-dc_en.html
Link for Sequential Activities: sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/subject-wise-activities/electronics-activities
![Wings of wonder: Exploring the world of butterflies
Topic: Wings of wonder: Exploring the world of butterflies
Speakers:
Sanket Raut and Team at Science Activity Centre IISER Pune
scienceactivitycentre@acads.iiserpune.ac.in [for questions and inquiry]
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Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh, Aadinath Solunke, Sanket Raut, Manisha Pingale, Prachi Patil, Vikrant Londhe, Ghanshyam Sake, Manjushree Pawar and Shyam Chakodi
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![STEM for All
About Speaker: Ankish Tirpude, Technical Assistant at Science Activity Centre IISER Pune
[STEM Educator and Teacher Developer]
After completing M.Sc. in Physics from VISVESVARAYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NAGPUR, and teaching for over 3 years in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Ankish joined IISER Pune in 2019. He coordinates various outreach programmes at SAC and develops low cost classroom teaching tools.
National Science Day Project/Model Making Event Registration Link:
https://forms.gle/kzyLvthaFVUM7TPJ6
0:59 About IISER Pune
3:25 About STEM
5:22 How to make learning more engaging
7:59 Understanding Patterns: STEM Habit
8:49 STEM hands-on: Golden Ratio calipers
14:10 STEM Hands-on A5 paper folding for Golden Ratio
15:42 About Golden Ratio
17:08 Human body [hand] in golden ratio
18:27 Golden ratio in Fibonacci sequence
20:00 Creating Structures as a STEM Habit
20:37 introduction to Platonic solids
21:56 Making of Gloden ratio Icosahedron
25:22 STEM Hands-on: understanding patterns
26:33 Introduction to cardioid shape
26:58 Generating Cardioid shape: Pen-paper activity
30:33 Generating Cardioid with strings
31:22 Cardioids with higher multiples
31:52 Focus on T in STEM
38:04 Basic Electronics activities and references
38:52 Introduction to Handy Generator
39:36 Working of Handy generator
41:01 Introduction to the Data Logger
42:15 plotting of Graph with data logger
44:26 Measuring distance using sound echo
45:00 STEM Approach
47:11 Conclusion
Icosahedron and Golden Rectangles:
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/icosahedron-golden-rectangles-shapes-and-angles?authuser=0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icosahedron
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
https://www.geogebra.org/m/vx5d5mn8
https://mathsbot.com/tools/cardioids
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/fidget-spinner-handy-generator
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/icosahedron-golden-rectangles-shapes-and-angles
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/home/fidget-spinner-generator
https://sites.google.com/acads.iiserpune.ac.in/iiserp-scienceactivitycentre/subject-wise-activities/electronics-activities
Science Outreach Team: Prof. M. S. Santhanam, Prof. Kundan Sengupta, Dr. Aparna Deshpande, Shubhangi Wankhede, Ashok Rupner, Dr. Chaitanya Mungi, Ankish Tirpude, Tejal Vyas, Sarvesh Gorivale, Amol Deshmukh, Siddhi Mahajan, Aadinath Solunke, Saurabh Chaudhary, Vikrant Londhe, Ghanshyam Sake, Dr Amit Morarka, Manjushree Pawar and Shyam Chakodi
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