Bhimtal 2023

Institute for Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar (Gujarat), in association with the Birla Institute of Applied Sciences (BIAS), Bhimtal, Uttrakhand organized an exhibition on Plasma, the fourth state of matter during 27 Nov to 1 Dec, 2023. This program is part of IPR’s rural scientific outreach activity in various states of India. This is the first outreach activity of IPR to be held in the state of Uttrakhand.  

The programme consisted of an exhibition on plasma, its applications, training programme for student volunteers, introductory talks on plasma for visiting students as well as competition on tokamak toy assembly for the students of BIAS.

The event was inaugurated by Dr. B.K. Singh, Director of Birla Institute of Applied Sciences (BIAS).

For this exhibition, 55 students of BTech electronics and computer science from BIAS were trained by IPR team to explain the exhibits to visiting students.  A fun filled competition for the student volunteers in assembling the TokoToy model was also organized as part of the event.

Over 1000 students from schools in and around Bhimtal and Nainital as well as students from BIAS and general public visited the exhibition at BIAS.