National Science Day: ‘Women in Science’ themed exhibit motivates girls with wireless electricity & other inventions; Over 1289 school students and 120 teachers from 97 schools from Indore district, Ujjain, Khargone, Mandleshwar, Dewas, Khandwa, Dhar, Badwani visit RRCAT
We all have heard and experienced wireless
networks and connections, which were like sci-fi movies about two decades back.
Celebrating National Science Day on Friday, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced
Technology (RRCAT) presented many other such scientific marvels taking students
on an amazing journey into the future.
Over 1289 school students and 120 teachers
from 97 schools from Indore district, Ujjain, Khargone, Mandleshwar, Dewas,
Khandwa, Dhar, Badwani and others visited RRCAT campus here to have first hand
information about latest developments taking place in the field of science and
technology.
RRCAT director Debashis Das said that National
Science Day is observed to commemorate the Nobel Prize winning discovery of
Raman Effect by eminent Indian scientist Professor Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
in February 1928. “This is a perfect day to bring adventures of science to
students,” he said.
Further, this year, the theme of National
Science Day 2020 is Women in Science. “We have currently only 15 percent women
scientist in India, which is far lower than other fields, so it is the perfect
day to remind people about women in science and motivate girls to become
scientists,” Janki Upadhyaya, RRCAT scientist, said.
RRCAT is also celebrating Dr Vikram
Sarabhai Birth Centenary during August 12, 2019 to August 12, 2020.
Those who visited the RRCAT included
differently-abled children from four special schools. The research and
development activities of RRCAT in the frontline areas of particle
accelerators, lasers, related technologies, and their societal applications
were explained to students through models, posters, presentations and videos.
A special interactive session with
questions and answers with interpreters was arranged for 49 differently-abled
(deaf and dumb) students from 3 special schools who participated in the event
along with their 7 teachers. The program was organized under the Chairmanship
of Purushottam Shrivastava, Director, PAG and Rajesh Arya, convened the
event.
A special exhibit showing women in science
was also set up. From nobel laureates to every woman, who uses science
everyday, the display featured female scientists from all over the world. From
Marie Curie to Anandibai Joshee, the profile of women in science inspired young
girls to pursue their dreams.
RRCAT has emerged as a national as well as
international leading centre in the front line areas of accelerators and lasers
and related science and technologies. RRCAT staff volunteers escorted the
students to 10 different sites and labs.
These included Synchrotron Radiation
Sources (SRS) Indus -1 and Indus-2, Cryogenic laboratories, Laser laboratories,
Workshop, Fire station, Magnet lab, etc. More than 56 exhibits were set up in
exhibition area and in the labs. The R&D activities of RRCAT were explained
to the students in a simple manner through various models, posters,
presentations and videos.
The visiting students and teachers were
offered lunch and during lunch period a “Prashna Manch” was organized and
winning students were awarded with mementos.
Wireless Electricity wows students
“I was particularly amazed and inclined
towards the wireless generation of electricity, and how it was prepared using
primary and secondary coil,” Asmita Kushwah, a student from Khargone said. She
hoped to become an engineer and was inspired by scientists to innovate her own
technology someday.
Shanu
Panwar had the same wish.
Preeti Mandloi, Anjali Batham and Rajin Khan talked about a project built on air suspension.
Preeti Mandloi, Anjali Batham and Rajin Khan talked about a project built on air suspension.
Simran
Yadav and Saloni Ghosh were impressed by women in science and aspired to fulfil
their dreams as well.
First view of microbial world
Students from Rajgarh district felt lucky
to actually view through microscope and see plasma. “We have always read about
plasma and microbes, this is the first time we got a chance to see how it
looks,” Nikita Visaliya and Krishnapriya Malviya said. Both the students hoped
to become doctor in future.
“We feel inspired and hope that someday, we
will achieve our dreams as well,” Neha Jaiswal, Jyoti Nagar and Ambika Patidar said.
Despite their interest, Radhika Gupta and Lakshmi
Malviya shared that all of them feared becoming a scientists as it might be too
difficult.
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