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Rooms where the questions get asked

89 photographs from sessions at schools — demonstrations set up on borrowed tables, halls filled to the back wall, and the moment before anyone knows what is about to happen.

A green laser beam curving along a stream of water pouring from a plastic bottle into a bowl, watched closely by two people.
A laser beam following a falling stream of water - total internal reflection, shown with a bottle and a bucket.

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A teacher speaking into a microphone from a wooden lectern at the front of a hall.
A host school opens the session.
A facilitator and a school student holding a long loop of paper cut along its length, in front of a wall of charts.
Cutting a Mobius strip - and finding it does not come apart as expected.
A speaker gesturing on a school stage while two students hold long white strips, a projected landscape behind them.
Volunteers hold the apparatus while the question is put to the room.
A teacher presenting a memento to a visiting facilitator in a classroom, colleagues standing alongside.
A memento at the close of a school visit.
A session under way in a school hall, with a WSCosmos title slide projected on the screen.
A session under way.
Students seated at desks facing a projector screen, two facilitators standing at the front of the classroom.
Setting up the first question of the afternoon.
Two facilitators at the front of a room against a white backdrop, one speaking into a microphone.
Working through a point together.
A crowd of students in uniform and adults standing together in a school hall, several holding booklets.
Afterwards, with material handed out.
A line of men standing across a stage as one is presented with a wrapped gift.
Thanks offered at the end of a visit.
Students in blue uniforms at a table with a laptop and projector, beneath a banner reading Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya.
At Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalaya - the set-up before a session.
A row of facilitators and school staff standing on a stage during a closing presentation.
The closing presentation.
Facilitators handing apparatus to students in a classroom with a green wall and a projector running.
Handing the apparatus over to the students.
Students seen from behind watching a facilitator demonstrate with a light source in a darkened classroom.
The room goes dark for the next demonstration.
A long school hall filled with students in white uniforms seated on the floor, facing a presentation at the far end.
A school hall filled for a session.
An audience seated on plastic chairs facing a projector screen in a school hall.
A full house, seated and waiting.
Students seated on the floor of a hall with a green roof, facilitators standing at the back.
A hall filled to the back wall.
Facilitators and school staff standing in a line across a stage at the close of a session.
School staff and facilitators together at the close.
Two facilitators beside a lectern, one holding a small object up for the room to see.
Holding it up so the back row can see.
A facilitator gesturing with both hands as he explains something to two schoolboys seated at a desk.
The explanation, at the scale of two students and a desk.
A line of men on a stage, one receiving a wrapped memento.
A memento handed over.
A large group of students in blue uniforms seated on mats in a school hall.
Seated and ready, in a hall that filled up quickly.
Facilitators setting up a projector on a table in a pink-walled classroom as students look on.
Getting the projector working.
An outdoor group photograph of students in blazers with facilitators.
A group photograph outside, at the end of the day.
A line of men across a stage during a closing presentation, one holding a wrapped gift.
Closing formalities.
A school hall with a wooden staircase, students in blue uniforms seated as a session runs at the front.
A session running at the front of a long hall.
A speaker mid-sentence with a microphone, one hand raised.
Mid-sentence.
Students seated on mats on the floor of a classroom, some holding printed material, watching a presentation.
Following along, printed material in hand.
A large group photograph of students and staff arranged across the front of a school hall.
A group photograph at the close of a session.
A green laser beam curving along a stream of water pouring from a plastic bottle into a bowl, watched closely by two people.
A laser beam following a falling stream of water - total internal reflection, shown with a bottle and a bucket.
Two men shaking hands in front of a printed WSCosmos banner listing the initiative's website and YouTube channel.
In front of the initiative's own banner.
Students crowded together in a classroom, some seated at a desk at the front.
Crowding in for a closer look.
Students on a stage holding long white strips while a facilitator explains, a projected slide behind them.
Long paper strips, and a question about what happens when they are cut.
A facilitator holding a yellow funnel above his head for the room to see, students seated below.
A funnel, raised so everyone can see it.
A facilitator holding a funnel aloft beside a teacher, with students watching from behind a railing.
Before the ball goes in.
Students and facilitators on a stage holding lengths of white paper, a projected slide behind.
Every volunteer gets a strip.
A facilitator and a school student together holding a long loop of paper that has been cut along its length.
Working through a Mobius strip - a loop of paper with only one side, and what happens when you cut along it.
A facilitator holding a yellow funnel at the front of a classroom while a student in uniform watches from across the room.
A student is invited up to predict what will happen before the demonstration begins.
Two facilitators standing at the front of a room against a white backdrop, one holding a microphone.
Two voices, one question.
Students in white uniforms seated on the floor of a bright hall, watching the front.
The floor fills before the chairs do.
A facilitator addressing students in blazers seated along the walls of a yellow-walled room.
A smaller room, a closer conversation.
A facilitator speaking into a microphone while students sit on the floor around him.
Speaking from the middle of the room.
A speaker standing before a large blue projection screen in a darkened hall of seated students.
The screen goes up and the room quietens.
A long room filled with young students at desks, looking towards the front.
Every desk taken.
A speaker gesturing towards a screen showing a diagram of the red giant branch of stellar evolution.
The red giant branch - what becomes of a star like our Sun as it ages.
A speaker with a microphone addressing rows of students seated on the floor of a hall.
Rows on the floor, front to back.
Facilitators and school staff standing together across a stage.
Staff and visitors, side by side.
A dense crowd of students in white uniforms with facilitators standing among them.
In among the crowd afterwards.
A speaker pointing at a large projected slide reading “and we have to peer through the atmosphere to see it”.
On the difficulty of observation: everything we see of the sky, we see through an atmosphere.
Four school students in white uniforms seated at a desk, smiling towards the camera during a session.
The front row.
Students seen from behind, watching a demonstration at the front of a classroom.
From the back of the room.
A senior teacher speaking into a microphone from a wooden lectern.
A word from the host school.
Adults and students standing together in a school hall at the end of a session.
Everyone together, before people drift away.
A facilitator holding a blue jug beside a table carrying a projector and laptop, preparing a demonstration.
Filling up, before anyone arrives.
A speaker with a microphone standing before a projected WSCosmos title slide.
Opening the session.
A facilitator holding up an orange ball in front of a screen, a table of apparatus beside him.
The next thing on the table.
Three people at the front of a room, one holding an orange ball suspended in mid-air above an upturned funnel.
A ball held steady in mid-air above an upturned funnel - Bernoulli's principle, with volunteers from the audience.
A speaker standing before a projected WSCosmos slide with students seated on the floor.
The title slide, and a room settling down.
Two facilitators at the front of a hall, one holding a small object up to the light.
Holding it to the light.
A hall of seated students with facilitators and staff standing along the side.
Standing room along the walls.
Two men holding a commemorative plaque between them in front of a screen showing a question slide.
A plaque, in front of the question still on screen.
A group photograph of students in green and white uniforms with facilitators in a school hall.
The whole group, before everyone scattered.
A facilitator speaking into a microphone with one hand raised.
Making the point again, differently.
An orange ball suspended in mid-air above an upturned blue funnel held by a facilitator.
The ball stays where it has no business staying.
Students seated at desks in a classroom while a teacher stands with a microphone at the side.
Questions from the floor.
A young man concentrating as he assembles small apparatus on a wooden table.
Setting up, before anyone else arrives.
Facilitators and students on a stage holding long paper strips, a projected slide behind them.
Strips handed out along the line.
A large hall packed with students in blue uniforms seated on the floor during a session.
A full hall during a school visit.
A large group of adults and students standing together for a photograph.
A full turnout.
Students at wooden desks in a classroom looking towards the front of the room.
Watching from the desks.
A line of facilitators and school staff on a stage, one presenting a wrapped gift.
A parting gift.
A facilitator gesturing with both hands mid-explanation, with apparatus and a ball on the table in front of him.
Mid-explanation - saying what should happen, before showing it.
Facilitators and students around a table carrying a projector and keyboard.
Cables, projector, and a few minutes to go.
Facilitators and school staff standing in a line across a stage.
Formal thanks, at the close.
A facilitator speaking into a microphone beside a lectern.
Taking a question.
Two young women preparing apparatus on a table while a facilitator explains, beside a window.
Preparing the materials together.
A long line of facilitators and school staff standing across a stage.
Everyone who made the day happen.
A man being presented with a wrapped memento by school staff on a stage.
A memento for the visiting team.
A facilitator guiding two students through a small hand-held demonstration in front of a projector screen.
Passing it to the students to try.
Students in blue uniforms seated on the floor of a hall as a facilitator speaks from the front.
A hall that filled from the front backwards.
A close-up photograph of a facilitator with a hall of seated students visible behind him.
A look back at the room.
A facilitator holding a microphone beside a student on a stage, a projected slide behind them.
A volunteer steps up.
A facilitator holding up a heavy stone slab attached by a tube to a suction device, with students watching from either side.
Air pressure alone, holding up a stone slab.
Facilitators and school staff standing across a stage at the end of a session.
The closing line-up.
Students on a stage holding long white paper strips while a facilitator directs them.
Strips stretched out across the stage.
A facilitator guiding a student's hands through a demonstration, a table of bottles and materials beside them.
Hands guided, not replaced.
A facilitator addressing students seated at desks in a classroom, a projector screen behind him.
A classroom session in progress.
A man photographing proceedings in a room with a WSCosmos banner and students seated on the floor.
Someone always documents it.
A facilitator holding a funnel to his mouth during a demonstration beside a window.
Air, and what it will and will not do.
Students at desks in a classroom, one in the foreground listening.
Listening from the front bench.

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