Science Centre Gwalior would organize three-day National Children’s Science Congress 2016 from November 28 to 30 with the collaboration of National Council for Science and Technology Communication, New Delhi and Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology, Bhopal.
Children’s Science Congress would provide a stage to the child scientists of 10 to 17 year-old to present their research papers on various issues. As many as 30 participants, who have been selected from the state level Children’s Science Congress, would represent Madhya Pradesh in the national level Children’s Science Congress.
‘Science, technology and innovation for sustainable development’ would be the main subject of the national children’s congress. Various programmes such as science quizzes, workshops and discussions would be organized during the children’s science congress.
More than 25 Professors and scientists from Excellence College, Barkatullah University, Nutan College and other institutions would take part in the Children’s Science Congress in order to understand the researches of the children.
Minister of State for Mineral Resources, Rajendra Shukla would be the chief guest of the inaugural session alongside Bansal Group’s Secretary Sunil Bansal and Pollution Control Board’s former Director NP Shukla. The primary objectives of the Children's Science Congress is to make a forum available to children of the age-group of 10-17, both from formal school system as well as from out of school, to exhibit their creativity and innovativeness and more particularly their ability to solve a societal problem experienced locally scale using the method-of-science. The Children's Science Congress encourages a sense of discovery. It emboldens the participants to question many aspects of our progress and development and express their findings in vernacular.Notably, the district level congress is the first forum in which projects complete with one another and are screened for the state level congress. Seven to eight lakh child scientists participate at various levels from the states and union territories. Two-three best projects from each state represent at the session of Indian Science Congress organized by Indian Science Congress Association.