To observe the teacher’s day, Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (MAPCOST) is organizing a Science Talent Award Ceremony on Thursday.
The event will be organized at Vigyan Vimarsh Vithika, Vigyan Bhawan Nehru Nagar. Under the event, three science teachers of the State would be honoured with science talent awards for their innovations in teaching patterns and teaching aids. Notably, these teachers were selected in year 2012. Further 133 students would also be given awards.
Notably, these students have been selected through various quizzes and competitions that were held last year. On the occasion, R Gopichand, Director Vigyan Prasar, Science and Technology Department, (Government of India), New Delhi would be present as the chief guest.
Further, Professor RC Verm, Vikram College Ujjain would be present as the special guest during the programme. An eminent scientist Manjulata Jain informed that Kapil Tripathi, Scientist ‘D’ from Vigyan Prasar, Science and Technology Department, (Government of India), New Delhi would give a presentation on activity based science teaching on ‘learn and Do’.
After the presentation some selected teachers from Western India Science Fair and three science teachers would be awarded. Elaborating further, she informed that Vinit Singh Chauhan (Jabalpur) would be given award for making the science teaching more interesting by digitization. Further, Sadhana Shukla (Jabalpur) would be awarded for innovations in teaching aids and making science interesting for the students and Ajay Shrivastava (Ujjain) would be awarded for innovations in teaching mathematics to students.
All the teachers would be honoured with Innovative Science Teachers Award 2012-13. R Gopichand, Director Vigyan Prasar, Science and Technology Department, (Government of India), New Delhi would give a lecture on chemical ecology of agriculture resource management and would define the chemical ecology. While addressing the ceremony he will give information on ozone layer as well.