During the eight months since it was inaugurated at the Vigyan Dham campus of the Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (UCOST) at Jhajhra in Dehradun, the regional science centre here has come a long way with its administrators claiming to have received more than 14,000, mostly schoolchildren who got to learn about the various interesting aspects of science and technology.
With this centre becoming known outside the city too, students from schools and colleges situated outside Dehradun also visited the regional science centre recently. Students of Anup Memorial Public School in Rudraprayag, St Joseph School in Kotdwar, Mother lad Academy in Kotdwar, post graduate college in Kotdwar, Dev Sanskriti University in Haridwar, Angels Academy in Haridwar, Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya in Haridwar, Divnine light School in Haridwar, post graduate college in Rishikesh, BSM College in Roorkee, Morvin School Roorkee, Vikas Valley School Haridwar and various other educational institutions have visited the RSC at Vigyan Dham in Dehradun so far. On Thursday, a group of 126 from the government inter-college in Dehradun visit the centre and viewed the various scientific aspects and displays therein.
The Regional Science Centre developed in Uttarakhand by the National Council for Science Museums (NCSM) in collaboration with UCOST at its premises in Jhajra, Dehradun comprises various exhibits, interactive displays and varied facilities.
Officials state that it is spread across 30450 square metres at Jhajra in Dehradun. The RSC comprises a Science Park and the RSC building. The Science Park contains a dinosaurs park and varied interactive exhibits based on scientific theories and principles while the RSC building comprises Frontiers of Technology Gallery, Fun Science Gallery, Himalayan Gallery, Innovation Hub, 3D Theatre, auditorium of 200 sitting capacity and exhibition hall, library and meeting hall. Some of the scientific law based interactive exhibits expected to attract visitors to the science park include ‘Gravity Chair’, ‘Whispering Garden’, ‘Musical Bar’, ‘Sympathic Swing’, ‘Birding Cage’, ‘Eco Tube’ and ‘Perspective House’ along with the proposed planetarium. In addition to these, intelligent materials, new trend in nuclear power generation, cloud computing, robotics, and carbon nano-tube and graphene along with various other exhibits will be displayed in various galleries the RSC building. With various state of the art exhibits related to the Himalayas, the Himalayan Gallery could even be considered the first of its kind in India.