Last year, we conducted a Summer Workshop for children aged 10-15 years in May 2011. Over a period of two days, we covered topics such as Story of scripts, Science puzzles and experiments, Coins of the Great Empires of India, Mahabalipuram, Tangram and Photography. It was followed up with an exhibition of various photography equipments used in the last 100 years. Inspired by the success of last year's program, this year we are back again with a slightly bigger format, new interesting topics and site visits. The details of the program are below:
*Saturday, May 19 (2:30 to 6:30 pm): * 1) *Life of Ramanujan, Math Genius*: N Balasubramaniam / Badri Seshadri: The fascinating story of Srinivasa Ramanujan, India's greatest modern Mathematician
2) *Astronomy before the telescope*: R Gopu: A brief history and an easy introduction to what you can see up in the sky with your naked eyes - Sun, Moon, Planets and Stars
3) *Plants around us*: Prof S Swaminathan: A presentation on the plants we see around us and some that we don't see, followed by a guided tour of Nagesvara Rao Park to learn about the plants there.
*Sunday, May 20 (2:30 to 6:30 pm): * 1) *The exciting Math of Srinivasa Ramanujan:* N Balasubramaniam / Badri Seshadri: A brief introduction to what Ramanujan did with numbers.
2) *Kaagitha Origami:* Kirigami Ramesh: Hands-on learning of what lovely art you can produce with paper
3) *Hindu Iconography*: V Sivaramakrishnan / Badri Seshadri: A presentation on how to identify icons in Hindu temples and the stories behind them, followed by a guided tour of Kapaleesvarar Temple in Mylapore.
Total number of participants in the Summer Camp: 40
Fee: Rs. 100/- (One hundred only). Will cover the cost of material and refreshments.****
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*Conditions:*
· The seats are limited. We cannot guarantee that your children will be included in the program if you have not booked a place in advance.** **
· Parents are expected to bring the children to Ragha Sudha Hall and take them back.****
· Parents can be present at the venue but are expected to be discrete and not interfere with the programme.
· There will be two outdoor sessions in Kapaleesvarar Temple and Nageswara Rao Park. The organizers will take the children to these places and get them back to Ragha Sudha Hall for pickup by the parents. The parents are also free to come along to these two places.
Tamil Heritage Trust is a registered Trust (Reg. No. 379/2010) set up to promote, document and disseminate Tamil and Indian heritage. We organize regular monthly lectures on heritage related topics on the first Saturday of every month. We undertake intense study tours to heritage places once a year. Over the last three years, we have visited Mamallapuram, Ajanta/Ellora and Pudukkottai.