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SUMMARY:International Moon Day 2023 Celebrations
DESCRIPTION:Shedule \n\n\n\nPreliminary TimelineMay 15\, 2023 Call for Organizing TeamMay 20\, 2023 Call for SponsorsJuly 17\, 2023 and July 20\, 2023Let’s Pitch the MoonJuly 17\, 2023 and July 20\, 2023 DesignathonJuly 20\, 2023 Sustainable Moon WorkshopJuly 20\, 2023 Keynote Speech July 17\, 2023 and July 20\, 2023 Make your space utopiaJuly 17\, 2023 and July 20\, 2023 Market your content\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch Keynote speech\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLet’s Pitch the Moon:The idea of this competition is to make participants explore the entrepreneur in them. It is a process of commercializing the Moon for the new journey of Mankind. The participants should submit their business ideas on or before July 17\, 2023 and selected ideas will be pitched on the day of the event and prizes will be awarded for best pitch. Since our theme for event is “Beginning the New Lunar Journey for Humanity”\, a good business in the New Lunar journey is necessary. This competition will take for participants to improve their business skills. \n\n\n\nSustainable Moon Workshop:This workshop trains the participants to make a sustainable approach towards the crisis faced by Moon landing\, Debris on the moon and making a sustainable Moon Village. The workshop will happen on the day of the event. Like the 2022 IMD event\, it can be hosted by Space Smurfs. \n\n\n\nDesignathon:This competition allows participants to design a suit for people living in the Moon Village. It is difficult to wear a space suit your entire time you stay in your lunar home. This suit is civilizing the lunar community. This competition is open to all. Participants should submit their Designs on or before July 17\, 2023. \n\n\n\nKeynote Speech:This introduces a new approach on habitable space and space tech with new and variant speakers\, who speak and interact on Astrobiology\, Astrosociology\, and more vast and new topics needed for New Lunar Journey. \n\n\n\nMake your space utopia:This competition makes participants build their utopia in space with digital art. There is a separate category for Digital art and AI art. This event is more to bring down the thoughts and ideas of the young community on moon village. Participants should submit their arts on or before July 17\, 2023. \n\n\n\nMarket your content:This competition allows participants to design a post on IMD theme. They can post about anything related to IMD on Instagram and LinkedIn and tag Moon Village Association-India. This competitionwill bring new creators for our theme and also Market the IMD event. \n\n\n\nProgram\n\n\n\n\n9 AM to 10 AM IST – Introduction of MVA and President Address\n\n\n\n10 AM to 10.30 AM IST – Chief Guest speech\n\n\n\n10.30 AM to 1 PM IST – Keynote Speech\n\n\n\n1 PM to 2 PM IST – Lunch Break\n\n\n\n2 PM to 4 PM IST – Sustainable Moon Workshop\n\n\n\n4 PM to 5 PM IST – Let’s Pitch the Moon event and Let’s have a Lunar Talk event happening simultaneously in Breakout rooms of Zoom meeting\n\n\n\n5 PM to 5.30 PM IST – Valedictory event
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/international-moon-day-2023-celebrations/
LOCATION:India – Online\, India
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SUMMARY:Moon & Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Sky Explorers will be partnering with various Schools across the city to conduct a painting & creative writing competition with a theme around ‘Going to the Moon and beyond’. The artwork & creative writing winners from each School will have their work displayed for general public. The Sky Explorers will also do a moongazing session there to facilitate people around lunar science and future of Moon.
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/moon-beyond/
LOCATION:India\, Mumbai\, Mumbai\, India
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SUMMARY:IMD 2023 South Asia Region Event - Nepal
DESCRIPTION:The Moon is the brightest object in our night sky\, the second brightest in our daytime sky\, and can be seen from all around the world. A first-quarter Moon is great for evening observing as it rises in the afternoon and is high above the horizon in the evening. The Moon Village Association team in the South Asian Region will host moon observation night in different cities of Asia like Mumbai\,Tamil Nadu\, Bengaluru\, Kerala\, Pokhara\, Lahore\, and Karachi in collaboration with local organizations and sponsors to create awareness among students and young professionals on the importance of Moon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Form
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/imd-2023-south-asia-region-event-nepal/
LOCATION:Nepal – Online\, Nepal
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SUMMARY:IMD 2023 South Asia Region Event - Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:The Moon is the brightest object in our night sky\, the second brightest in our daytime sky\, and can be seen from all around the world. A first-quarter Moon is great for evening observing as it rises in the afternoon and is high above the horizon in the evening. The Moon Village Association team in the South Asian Region will host moon observation night in different cities of Asia like Mumbai\,Tamil Nadu\, Bengaluru\, Kerala\, Pokhara\, Lahore\, and Karachi in collaboration with local organizations and sponsors to create awareness among students and young professionals on the importance of Moon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Form
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/imd-2023-south-asia-region-event-pakistan/
LOCATION:Pakistan\, Islamabad\, Pakistan
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SUMMARY:IMD 2023 South Asia Region Event - India
DESCRIPTION:The Moon is the brightest object in our night sky\, the second brightest in our daytime sky\, and can be seen from all around the world. A first-quarter Moon is great for evening observing as it rises in the afternoon and is high above the horizon in the evening. The Moon Village Association team in the South Asian Region will host moon observation night in different cities of Asia like Mumbai\,Tamil Nadu\, Bengaluru\, Kerala\, Pokhara\, Lahore\, and Karachi in collaboration with local organizations and sponsors to create awareness among students and young professionals on the importance of Moon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister\n\n\n\n\nRegistration Form
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/imd-2023-south-asia-region-event-india/
LOCATION:India\, Mumbai\, India
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SUMMARY:United Moon Forum - India
DESCRIPTION:Humans are already multi-continental\, now it’s time to expand our boundaries to other celestial bodies. After all\, we are born to explore! Additionally\, for benefits from collaborative and peaceful exploration and sustainability reasons\, we must expand beyond Earth. Moon is going to be our 1st bold step in this endless venture. \n\n\n\nInternational Moon Day i.e. 20 July marks the anniversary of the 1st Human landing on the lunar surface as a part of the Apollo 11 lunar mission back in the year 1969. This year we celebrate its 54th Anniversary as a part of the 2nd International Moon Day proposed by the Moon Village Association and officially approved by the UN General Assembly on 9th December 2021. The Human landing on the Moon has\, is\, and will continue to inspire generations to expand beyond our conventional boundaries. \n\n\n\nToday around half a century after the 1st moon landing\, many Space stakeholders (public and private alike) can send missions to the moon. To celebrate our New Lunar Journey\, LIFE-To & Beyond and SpaceCrew\, InnovaSpace jointly is organizing the “United Moon Forum” to celebrate the occasion on the 20th of July 2023 (Timing: 13:30- 15:45 GMT or 19:00- 21:15 IST).  \n\n\n\nThe purpose of the outreach event is to give a glance at the Past\, Present\, and Future of Lunar exploration. This will help spread the word amongst the people about the activities in the space sector about Lunar exploration globally. Alongside\, it will be instrumental in fostering discussion regarding the collaborative and peaceful exploration of our Moon as a common heritage of all of Humankind. \n\n\n\nThe event format includes a Series of lightning talks\, and a panel discussion hosted Online (on the Microsoft Teams Platform and also stream LIVE on the Life To and Beyond Youtube Channel) and Open to global participation. It’s a short yet significant step towards proactive and impactful outreach. We are optimistic about ‘inspiring the new generation to take up the baton of Human exploration from Earth to the Moon\, Mars\, and Beyond!’ \n\n\n\nFor more: https://www.lifetoandbeyond.org/united-moon-forum \n\n\n\nUnited_Moon_Forum_Brochure-1_compressedDownload
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/united-moon-forum-india/
LOCATION:India – Online\, India
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SUMMARY:IMD 2023 South Asia Region Event
DESCRIPTION:Moon Observing Night – July 20\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Moon is the brightest object in our night sky\, the second brightest in our daytime sky\, and can be seen from all around the world. A first-quarter Moon is great for evening observing as it rises in the afternoon and is high above the horizon in the evening. The Moon Village Association team in the South Asian Region will host moon observation night in different cities of Asia like Mumbai\,Tamil Nadu\, Bengaluru\, Kerala\, Pokhara\, Lahore\, and Karachi in collaboration with local organizations and sponsors to create awareness among students and young professionals on the importance of Moon. \n\n\n\nLunar Talks – July 27\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe theme for the Lunar talks would be “Lunar Exploration and Advancement in different regions on earth”. The MVA team of the South Asia Region would like to invite Regional Coordinators of the MVA Global Network for an immersive panel discussion to exchange knowledge  and share insights on Lunar exploration in their regions \n\n\n\nSpeaker 1\n\n\n\nSunny Kabrawala is a space enthusiast who aspires to make space accessible and extremely affordable for everyone. He realized his passion for space at a very young age of 10 years. Since childhood\, he aspired to be a space pioneer and contribute to space industry. He was an ordinary student with an average academic performance. He failed in Physics in 11th grade and scored about 42% in 12th grade. Due to his below average score\, he could not pursue his Bachelors in Aerospace Engineering. Sunny Kabrawala is an Electronics Engineer by qualification.At the age of 19 years\, he founded India’s 1st Rocket Club named STAR which later on got transformed into an aerospace startup. STAR is an aerospace startup that aspires to make space accessible for everyone by providing space launch services and imparting space education to young minds. STAR has launched 30+ low altitude high powered rockets and is currently developing India’s 1st reusable sounding rocket that can carry 20 kilograms to the altitude of 120 kilometres.Through STAR\, Sunny Kabrawala has imparted space education and trained 12\,000+ students across the globe. He has also delivered talks on various platforms such as TEDxSurat\, Josh Talks\, Yugaantar\, Goa IT Policy Day\, and many entrepreneurship conclaves.Sunny Kabrawala firmly believes that the next generation of scientists\, engineers\, sports people\, politicians\, artists\, and entrepreneurs are currently sitting in the classrooms. The way we nurture them is the way they will nurture our planet. \n\n\n\nSpeaker 2\n\n\n\nYumna Majeed is a Medical Lab Technologist and a Space Educator\, working to create space awareness among Pakistani students since 2016. She founded Exploration\, a space-edu based organisation to bring wonders of cosmos to the classrooms. Through this platform\, she has conducted more than 80 sessions in different schools\, reaching out to more than 9500 kids and inspiring hundreds of them via digital and television media. In 2021\, Yumna was selected as SDG #5\, Gender equality representative in the Space sector by the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs. She has been awarded Diana Award 2021 and Pride of Pakistan 2022 for her efforts but she believes her real achievement is the impact she has been able to create among students. \n\n\n\nISRO-MVA Video competition Award Ceremony – August 1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on August 1st at 16:00 IST to honor the winners of the ISRO-MVA Video Competition \n\n\n\nMVA-ISRO Chandrayaan 3 video competition was organised in the memory of late Dr S. Ramakrishnan Former Director of VSSC\, ISRO \n\n\n\nThe team has put together an Award Ceremony as part of the South Asia Regional IMD event on 1st August 2023 at 16:00 pm IST \n\n\n\nRecording to be available soon. \n\n\n\nThe agenda of the ceremony would be as follows:\n\n\n\n\nSpeech ISRO Director CBPO Mr Sudheer Kumar N.\n\n\n\nSpeech MVA president Mr Giuseppe Reibaldi\n\n\n\nAnnoucement of winners by MVA Outreach Coordinator Pavithra Manghaipathy\n\n\n\nVideo broadcasting of Category \n\n\n\nA winners Video broadcasting of Category B winners\n\n\n\nThank you Speech by MVA South Asia Regional Coordinator Nidhi Vasaikar
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/imd-2023-south-asia-region-event/
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SUMMARY:Post IMD Event - ISRO-MVA Video competition Award Ceremony 
DESCRIPTION:Join us on August 1st at 16:00 IST to honor the winners of the ISRO-MVA Video Competition \n\n\n\nMVA-ISRO Chandrayaan 3 video competition was organised in the memory of late Dr S. Ramakrishnan Former Director of VSSC\, ISRO \n\n\n\nThe team has put together an Award Ceremony as part of the South Asia Regional IMD event on 1st August 2023 at 16:00 pm IST \n\n\n\nRecording to be available after the event \n\n\n\nThe agenda of the ceremony would be as follows:\n\n\n\n\nSpeech ISRO Director CBPO Mr Sudheer Kumar N.\n\n\n\nSpeech MVA president Mr Giuseppe Reibaldi\n\n\n\nAnnoucement of winners by MVA Outreach Coordinator Pavithra Manghaipathy\n\n\n\nVideo broadcasting of Category \n\n\n\nA winners Video broadcasting of Category B winners\n\n\n\nThankyou Speech by MVA South Asia Regional Coordinator Nidhi Vasaikar
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/post-imd-event-isro-mva-video-competition-award-ceremony/
LOCATION:India – Online\, India
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SUMMARY:International Moon Week 2024
DESCRIPTION:Regional Science Centre and Planetarium Calicut will organize a week-long event titled ‘International Moon Week’ featuring a variety of programs and activities designed for school students. These programs aim to instill the spirit of scientific inquiry\, enhance analytical skills\, and increase awareness about the moon and related phenomena.The components of the program include: \n\n\n\n\nSelfie Point: A large-format image of the moon at the entrance plaza for visitors to take photos.\n\n\n\nSeminar on the Modern Moon Race: Exploring current advancements and future missions.\n\n\n\nWorkshops on the Physics of the Moon: Hands-on sessions to understand lunar science.\n\n\n\nActivity Sessions on the Moon: Interactive learning experiences.\n\n\n\nMoon-inspired Cultural Activities and Contests: Including mono acts depicting lunar phenomena\, songs inspired by the moon\, and model-making sessions focused on lunar aspects.\n\n\n\nSelfie Point: A large-format image of the moon at the entrance plaza for visitors to take photos.
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/international-moon-week-2024/
LOCATION:Regional Science Centre and Planetarium\, Calicut\, Kerala\, India\, Jafferkhan Colony\, Calicut\, Kerala\, 673006\, India
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SUMMARY:Yun Sajaa Chaand
DESCRIPTION:This unique evening brings together artists\, poets\, educators\, scientists\, and dreamers to celebrate the Moon through music\, shayari\, stories\, and performances by students and invited guests — all under the lunar theme. Expect captivating performances and moments that’ll make you smile\, wonder\, and maybe even look up differently at the night sky.
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/yun-sajaa-chaand/
LOCATION:Nehru Science Centre Mumbai\, India\, Jijamata Nagar\, Worli\, Mumbai\, Maharashtra\, 400018\, India
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SUMMARY:Creativity and the Moon: Posters\, Models and Quizzes!
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we commemorate International Moon Day with a dynamic showcase of creativity and curiosity! Dive into exciting poster competitions\, challenge your mind in our lunar‑themed quiz\, and bring your imagination to life in model‑making competitions. Let’s celebrate humanity’s journey to the Moon and beyond—together\, we’ll ignite ideas that are truly out of this world.
URL:https://internationalmoonday.org/event/creativity-and-the-moon-posters-models-and-quizzes/
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