Tribune news service
Amritsar, July 2
SciRox, the science club of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU), has started a virtual internship initiative called ‘Mentor-Mentee Program’ for both under and postgraduate students in the fields of basic and applied sciences.
The objective of the programme is to provide the students with an opportunity to enhance their skills by training under experts working in a specific research area. The mentors include faculty members, post-doctoral and PhD students from various institutions across India and abroad. A total of 25 mentors from Indian Insitutes of Technology, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research, Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, other state universities and foreign universities have registered. Several projects like science communication, chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, and computers are up for grabs.
“The mentors will guide the students for a period of one month providing them with assignments, virtual lab tours, lectures, and small projects. The club will provide certificates to both the mentors as well as mentees after the successful completion of the programme,” said Dr Bindiya Arora, Convener and incharge, SciRox.
The registrations for the mentees will start on Friday. Each student can apply for one or more of the offered projects and a mentor will be provided on the basis of their academic profile and statement of purpose. The application process is completely online and the selected students will work on a project of their choice filled. This programme is exclusively for the students who have availed the free lockdown membership of the SciRox. The result of the selected candidates will be declared on the official website of the club.
‘Mentor-Mentee program’ is being organised in collaboration with The Chemical Society, GNDU, and the Stellar Universe, DU. It is open for all the members of the science club studying in various departments of GNDU main campus and affiliated colleges.
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