Fwd: Five Days in May - A Free Summer Camp
chaitanya kumar
All of u must totally check out these talks. Just drop in for an hour, will be exciting and highly informative.
Cheers
From: "Lakshman Rao" <lakshm...@wingsinfo.net>
Date: May 1, 2012 10:48 AM
Subject: Five Days in May - A Free Summer Camp
To:
Please see invite to an interesting event below, from Lamakaan.
Team Manthan.
May
2nd to May 6th
10 am to 1pm
Lamakaan's Five Days in May is the summer camp for
everybody!
Life, Universe and Everything
Where did the Earth
come from? Is the Moon a part of the Earth? How are the stars formed? How did
the Universe begin?
Assemble a telescope,
Build a spectroscope to see inside the stars, Learn to use star
charts.
- by Priya Shah Hasan
(Astronomer)
Story of
Numbers
Biography of Zero. Different kinds
of numbers, What led mankind to invent them? Can Maths lead us to the truth? Do
higher dimensions exist in the Universe? How can we be sure?
- by Najam Hasan (Mathematician /
Astronomer)
Geography of
Breakfast
Learn to think and investigate
geographically. Where does your breakfast come from? Who works to produce it?
Where is it grown and how? How did our cuisine become what it is? Learn to
investigate and find these things on your own.
- by Anant Maringanti (Geographer)
Designing Everyday Things
Why are our teacups, door handles, bath fittings designed
the way they are? What should be the purpose of design? Learn to design products
that will make people happy.
- by Ashhar
Farhan (Product Designer)
Write to farh...@gmail.com introducing yourself
and why you (or your chid or both!) want to join the
course.
The participants should have
understanding of elementary maths and english.