Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday felicitated the top 20 Young Astronomers Talents Search (YATS) students and lauded the Tata Steel’s efforts for inspiring budding talents from high schools to explore mysteries of space.
The YATS was conducted through competition programmes in various centres across the State and recognized the talented students in the field of astronomy and space sciences.
The top YATS students would have opportunity to visit a premier scientific facility of ISRO every year. They would also get the rare opportunity to have interaction with top scientists of the country.
The selected students would contest in the final to be held on December13, 2017 at Pathani Samanta Planetarium here to mark the birth anniversary of illustrious astrologer Pathani Samanta.
The Tata Steel would facilitate for putting up a week-long exhibition by the Space Application Centre of the ISRO, Ahmedabad at the planetarium on the day. The exhibition would remain open for public from December 13 to December 17.
Among others, School and Mass Education and Science and Technology Minister Badri Narayan Patra, Development Commissioner R Balakrishnan and Tata Steel, Kalinganagar VP (Operations) Rajiv Kumar were present.