Feb2019SOR

Scientific Outreach Activities - February 2019

Date	Activity	Organized by / At
2-3 Feb, 2019	National Science Day 2019	IPR
6-Feb, 2019	ParamanuTech - 2019	Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
23-Feb, 2019	"Abyuday", Scientific Outreach Programme in rural Gujarat	Malghad, Deesa, Gujarat

National Science Day 2019

The National Science day was celebrated at IPR with immense amount of enthusiasm on 2-3 February, 2019 at the IPR main campus. The event was inaugurated by Dean Administration of IPR, Shri Ujjwal Baruah. Over 800 students and teachers from both urban and rural schools across Gujarat participated in this event. The NSD also had competitive live events like Quiz, Eloquence, Skit as well as science exhibits by schools and by IPR staff, in collaboration with the BSc Physics students of St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad. Offline competitions like poster and essay writing were conducted for the school students in the month of December. In the competition organized for school teachers for innovative teaching aids, Shri Avinash K. Jayswal of Info city Science College won the first prize. This event had over 3000 visitors visiting IPR during the two days to see the exhibition and open house. The concluding session was held on 3rd February where the prizes for the various competitions were given out by Director IPR, Dr. Shashank Chaturvedi. Some of the schools that won prizes in multiple events are S.G. Dholakiya School, Rajkot, H J D Institute, Kutch, Ultra Vision School, Surendranagar, Adarshila School , Valad etc.

Inages from NSD-2019

ParamanuTech - 2019

Department of Atomic Energy, in consultation with MEA organized a conference "ParmanuTech 2019" at New Delhi on 6-Feb-2019 for familiarizing Indian diplomats as well as foreign diplomats in India, regarding the technologies developed by DAE. The main aim of the programme is to enhance the global nuclear foot print in India and create more areas of cooperation with our foreign partners. The Conference and exhibition was held at the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. IPR participated in the exhibition along with other DAE units. The Conference was presided over by Dr. Jitendra Singh. Hon. Minister of State for PMO, who is also in- charge of the Department of Atomic Energy.

Images from ParamanuTech 2019

"Abyuday", Scientific Outreach Programme in rural Gujarat

This event was organized by "Unmesh", which is a Jabalpur based organization undertaking scientific outreach and have worked with DAE several times in the past. This programme meant for SSC/HSC students was organized at the Seth Shri L. H. Mali Adarsh High School located at Malgad village near Deesa, Banaskatha in North Gujarat. Around 400 SSC and HSC students of schools from in and around Deesa, Banaskata district of North Gujarat.

Images from "Abyuday" outreach programme