Academic honours, Fellowships, Visits to Institutions

Research Scholarship awarded by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, TIFR (Aug 2001- Jul 2008).

Involved in the planning and conduct of a collaborative 4-day workshop on “Design in Curriculum” organised by TISS, Mumbai and National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad for M.A. Education (Elementary) students, who were practising teachers. I was also a part of the week-long pre-workshop discussion group (Nov 2008).

Sarojini Damodaran Fellowship awarded by Tata Endowment Fund of the TIFR (Sept – Oct, 2006). During my academic visit to the Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA, I discussed technology education research at HBCSE and also made a presentation to graduate students there on “Technology education in the Indian Schools.”

Second prize for the project on “Polymerase Chain Reaction” in the Science Exhibition organised by the Science Association of Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune (1996-1997).