Astronomy Outreach at Government Middle School, Killai

Last weekend, we conducted an astronomy workshop for around 60 school students in Killai, near Pichavaram. We began indoors with a discussion on stars, the Sun, and the Solar System. The students learned that the Sun is a star and looked at how the planets are arranged around it. To make the scale easier to understand, they worked in groups on a chart-paper activity comparing the planets and…