The national science day was observed with a lot of fervor in the city here on Friday. The science day is observed every year to commemorate CV Raman's discovery of Raman Effect for which he later got Nobel Prize for physics in 1930.
The Regional Science Centre, Bhopal in collaboration with MP Council of Science and Technology (MPCST) and Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA), Bhopal Chapter organised various educational activities to mark National Science Day 2014 that held for a week.
The programme began here from February 21 and concluded on Friday.
While talking to The Pioneer, education officer of Regional Science Centre, MM Rout said that physics is related to daily life in some way or the other. So, the weeklong programmes helped the students to understand the relationship between their daily life and science.
As a part of this celebration a Science Drawing Contest was organised on February 24 for High School students
and college students in two
categories, a Teaching
Aid Demonstration Contest for B.Ed. and D.Ed students
and teachers was organised on February 25, a Power
Point Presentation Contest for college students on
theme “Crystallography”
was organised on February 26.
Every day of the event regular Sky Observation Programmes were also organised at the centre.Here on Friday the programme was initiated with an Open House Quiz and Quest (science based experiments), which was followed by CV Raman Memorial lecture.Notably, SK Kulshrestha, Former Addittional Director, Department of Higher Education, Madhya Pradesh delivered the lecture and elaborated the life and works
of CV Raman. The lecture was followed by a Valediction and prize distribution function in which prizes and certificates were given away by Kulshrestha.In the valedictory function, Professor SB Nimse, President Elect, Indian Science Congress Association, VK Parasahar Convener, ISCA, Bhopal Chapter and PJ Sudhakar, ADG, Press Information Bureau, Bhopal were prominently present.
Prof Nimse also gave
away the medals and trophies to the winners of Innovative Science Model competitions that was organised on January 12 at science centre in collaboration with ISCA,
Bhopal Chapter.
A many as 500 students, teachers and college faculties participated in the weeklong programme.