The next time you are planning an out-of-town excursion school with your students, do consider a trip to this amazing hands-on exploratory space for young children where they experience "science" through the joy of making things. This center, housed within IUCAA (Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astro-Physics) in Pune, is where Arvind Gupta and others delight children on a regular basis, with hand-made toys from everyday things that bring the principles of Science and Maths alive.

Watch this film on google video - Truth and Joy of Science - and marvel at simplicity of the philosophy that drives this center, as described by Arvind Gupta himself - as beautiful and simple as the toys the children make and experiment with and take home with them.

(Description of film on Google Video) - (This film is) "About a creative Children's Science Centre in India. Children come to make things with trash. And whatever they make they take it back with them - a flying fish, flexagon, straw flute, simple motor, pump to pop a balloon. This is a hands-on centre where children experience the joy of making things."