Science Congress to build scientific temperament among students

Strap: Two-day event kicks off with much fanfare

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, January 29

The state-level Children Science Congress was organised on a virtual platform. The two-day event began today. A PAN-India programme, it is aimed at igniting the young minds about the practical applicability of science by engaging them in ‘Learning by Doing’ and relating classroom knowledge to find scientific solutions to address the real life challenges.

The Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST) is the state nodal agency for organising this prestigious programme in Punjab. The council has been organising it every year for the past 28 years. This year, PSCST has been organising the 28th Children Science Congress (CSC) in collaboration with Pushpa Gujral Science City (PGSC), Kapurthala.

As per information, more than 110 projects will be presented in the state-level CSC during two days and 16 projects from the state will make it to the national-level CSC. The results will be announced on Feb 1, 2021.

The programme was inaugurated today by Charandeep Singh, Joint Secretary, Science, Technology and Environment, Punjab.

He said the Children Science Congress was an effective medium for fostering the scientific temper among students of 10-17 years of age through experimentation and demonstration.

Presiding over the event, Dr Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director, Punjab State Council for Science and Technology, said the Children Science Congress was a National Flagship Programme developed around five key pillars of ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ viz. learning to know, learning to do, learning to live together, learning to transform one’s own self and learning to transform the society. She also shared the theme of this year’s CSC was ‘Science for Sustainable Living’. She further shared that through this platform, several child-scientists and science teachers have won laurels at national level and also got opportunities for international exposure. Dr Neelima Jerath, Director General, PGSC, called upon the participating students to use this forum to come up with scientific projects which can help in solving the societal problems and also urged them to visit the Science City.