With an aim to make science learning easy for the school students, Regional Science Centre, Bhopal organised a month long film festival at its premises.
Notably, the film festival began on October 10 and would continue till November 16. Featuring the science documentaries and short films the film festival evoked a good response from the students. As many as 4,000 students have been a part of the fest till now from various schools of the city.
While talking to The Pioneer, education officer of the Regional Science Centre MM Rout said, “We organize a film festival on science movies every year to make the learning process easy and fun.”
Elaborating further, he said, “The Science Centre believe that if any fact is learned through audio visual aid and also through some interesting manner, the students can remember it for a long time and this could be helpful for them for their future endeavours.”
Elaborating further, Rout also informed that the students who do not know about science or who are not aware of the science facts at all, they will get a chance to know such facts. He also said contentedly that as many as 600 students from Vikram High Secondary School, BHEl and St Theresa’s School, BHEl visited to watch the show on last booking day that was on Tuesday.
Moreover, 33 film shows have been screened till now and there have been 80 science movies including science documentaries, long and short science movies were selected for the fest.
Movies like Human Body Circulatory System, Mechanical Universe, Passage to Moon, I didn’t Know That!, Our Eye, Birds of Indian Monsoon, Solar Activity, Energy in National Issue, Atmosphere, Science and Energy Balance and many more movies are being screened at the fest.
“It has been a pleasure for us that so many students so far have received information in a fun learning way. We are really contended to have such a great participation from the teachers and the students from various schools of the city.” The centre is looking forward for similar enthusiast participation from the schools, he further added.