The Regional Science Centre, Bhopal circle has organised a summer vacation activity for the high school children at its premises. The children are learning about the electronics and the new gadgets being introduced.
Education officer of Regional Science Centre MM Rout, while talking to The Pioneer said, “This is the last batch of Creative Science summer vacation activity that would continue till June 7.”
Further, to mark the World Environment Day various activities are being organised at the Regional Science Centre, Bhopal. Here on Tuesday the students of different schools of the city gave PowerPoint presentations on the topic ‘Think Eat and Save’.
As many as 15 students of various schools of the State Capital participated in the power point presentation competition. Before the power point presentations, a movie The Jungle Gang was screened before the students. The movie was all about the animals and saving the environment.
The film series let the children to explore the diverse wild flora and fauna of India and encourage them to actively participate in wildlife conservation. The film has three animated animal characters – Bo- the Bar Headed Goose, Kuttu- the Slender loris and Bhoora- the Blackbuck. These three friends bring the flavour of three different habitats of India.
They travel together to different parts of the country and seek out the threatened animals to tell about their habitats, threats and conservations efforts, which have saved them from extinction.
The film series is a mix of animation and live action wildlife footage. Each film in the series is about 15 mins in length.
The series has been created by Earthcare Films, supported by WWF-India. The students undoubtedly enjoyed the animated world of flora and fauna.
After the film screening, ppt presentations were given by the students, out of which Abir Vaishnav from Delhi Public School won the first prize, followed by second prize that was won by Shauryam Jain from DPS and the third prize was taken away by Sobi Jain from St Josephs Convent School.