Tinkerer, Toymaker

Arvind Gupta, the Indian toys-from-junk educator who visited the MTN Sciencentre and did a demonstration for staff as part of National Science Week 2006, is also on YouTube.

Here is Arvind (winner of India's National Award for Science Popularisation) at SciFest, South Africa's annual (and raucous) national science festival: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ64PjeYego

You can also find Arvind on YouTube making flexagons at the beautiful Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (and see a picture of the campus below) in Pune, India(online at www.iucaa.ernet.in) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlB3Ud1gr5k



Or there's a two-part video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nYCl8wivfU which shows Arvind in his natural habitat - in other words, among students - this time in Bangalore This video was shot at Mallya Aditi International School (logo below when the tinkerer and toy-maker worked with kids of Standard 6 and showed them how to make some exciting inventions from ordinary stuff. The school even has its own Wikipedia entry, which is something else the MTN Sciencentre will have to think about doing - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallya_Aditi_International_School



So clearly it's time that the MTN Sciencentre started videoing its science shows and guest speakers and posting them on YouTube. First the blog, then Wikipedia, next YouTube. Paris Hilton, move over, science is coming through!