AID Bangalore conducted Metric Mela, a fun event involving kids, parents and other adults at the Minerva Circle tuition center on July 22, 2007. Preparations for the event had started a month ago where AID volunteers (Balaji, Senthil, Pushpa, Sathish and others) met with the kids a few times to decide on the flow of event and logistics.The event basically consisted of four booths one each demonstrating measurement of weight, length, volume and time. There was also a registration booth where the participant was given a chit with his/her name and a registration number on it. read more

Right, and now you’re thinking, deconstruct what? Monolith? In science? What’s he talking ‘bout?

Let me explain.

A monolith is a single, giant block of stone, especially a pillar or a monument. More appropriate for us, a monolith is massive and indivisible organization or institution.

(The monolith, according to Arthur C Clarke, is ofcourse a very different class of ‘stone’ – if you haven’t already read the book, do read 2001: A space Odyssey. read more

What does science education mean? Perhaps the first elog in the topic science education should lead to a discussion on 'science education' itself. A specific question that we could use to structure this discussion could be:

'What should good science education hope to achieve?'

• Content knowledge- Our life today is heavily influenced by science and technology. That we are a 'tech' civilisation has been obvious (in retrospect) for the last few centuries. read more