Outreach

• Content Coordinator, Space Scientist Olympiad
  The Unscripted Life, Bombay, India
  September 2022 - Present
  
  I co-design an elaborate learning program (along with curating its syllabus) for children enrolled in schools pan India. The program invites students to participate in several activities, provides them with credible, self-paced resources and ultimately culminates in a 'Space Scientist' Olympiad. The Olympiad tests the knowledge and skillset students developed throughout the program and rewards them for the effort put in. The purpose is to help build an interest in space, astronomy and astrophysics. At the end of the program, all participants leave with more knowledge and experience, with sufficient resources to sustain self-learning. All winners get more opportunities and mentorship to motivate them early-on towards pursuing careers in space.
  
• Volunteer for the “Space Village”, Swiss ComicCon 2022
  National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS (NCCR PlanetS), Basel, Switzerland
  May 2022
  
  Fantasy Basel, the Swiss ComicCon, is an established event aimed at a broad audience, spread over 70,000m2 of exhibitions. As a volunteer for PlanetS, I was responsible for surprising the audience with science and show them how exciting research is in reality by means of several exhibits on planetary science and astronomy.
  
• Mediator for the virtual science exhibition season “PSYCHE”
  Science Gallery Bengaluru (SGB), Bengaluru, India
  January 2022
  
  Communicated about neuroscience using exhibits to explore interesting and thought-provoking ideas with visitors.
  Click here to visit the PSYCHE archive.
  
• Guest Writer, The Secrets of the Universe
  The Secrets of the Universe – digital platform for astronomy-based science communication with 1M+ followers
  August 2021
  
  Click here to read the article.
  
• Mediator for the virtual science exhibition “Cosmiczoom”
  International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
  April 2021
  
  Took visitors on a journey at different scales of the universe to explore interesting and thought-provoking ideas.
  Click here to visit the Cosmiczoom website.
  
• Volunteer for LIGO-INDIA, Vigyaan Samagram
  Department of Atomic Energy, Department of Science and Technology, National Council of Science Museums
  September 2019
  
  ‘Vigyan Samagam’ brought together the world’s major Mega Science projects and was India’s first-ever, global Mega-Science exhibition. As a volunteer for Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatories (LIGO), I curated events, talks and demonstrations on gravitational wave astronomy at Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bengaluru.
  
• Event Organizer: Seminars, workshops and lectures on Astronomy and Aerospace
  R.V. College of Engineering, Bengaluru, India
  August 2016-June 2020

Don't miss seeing one of 2019's Physics Nobel Lauretes in classic Comic-Con make-up;)