A two days GTTP workshop was organized by Pokhara Astronomical
Society (PAS) at Gyanodaya Boarding School, Rangkhola, Syangja on 19th
and 20th February 2016. The program was conducted in association
with Global Hands on Universe (GHoU) and National Academy of Geo and Space
science (NAGGS). PABSON Syangja assisted as a local organizer of the event.
Altogether twenty secondary level science teachers from different schools of
Syangja actively participated in this workshop.
Mr. Narayan Acharya, Secretary of PABSON Syangja, had conducted the
formal program before starting the workshop by lighting the candle. Mr. Mukta
Rana, principal of Gyanodaya Boarding school, welcomed the all participates. He
appreciated this type of workshop to make teacher as well as student more
creative and practicable.
First day workshop of the event was on ‘Stellarium’ by Mr. Ashish Sharma
and Mr. Sushil Bhattarai. The main objective of this workshop
was to train teachers to use night sky observation techniques and make familiar
with the Stellarium, astronomical software. Teachers were assigned to simulate
the sky with Planets‚ Pleiades‚ Orion Nebula‚ Andromeda Galaxy, solar eclipse, lunar eclipse inside
the classroom. They talked about Sky Maps
which can be install on smart phones and show to their student inside the
classroom. They trained teachers to find out the position of sun hour by hour
and to make graph of position of Sun with the help of Stellarium.
Next day workshop of the event was on "Salsa J'' which was conducted
by Mr. Niraj Raj Karna, president of NAGGS. The main objective of this program
was to give an idea to measure the diameter of moon, crater etc. This was the
advance astronomical software which fascinated
the teacher most. At a mean time, Mr. Sabin Gautam conducted outdoor
program with Star Wheel. This helps them to find and locate the stars with
respect to time and also to identify the shape of constellation. Mr. Jeevan
Lamsal, Secretary of PAS , gave a talk
on Black Hole. Teachers got concept to make hand make telescope. Night sky
observation through telescope was organized for teacher and students.
At last session of program Mr. Buddhi Sagar Tripathi, Chairman of PABSON
Syangja gave his speech on the importance of such workshop and thanked to all
trainers and speakers. Dr. Bonnie Thurber, GHoU, handed over Galileo t-shirt to
the principal of the school. She facilitated the workshop on Salsa J and guided
the trainer in their talks and workshop.
