IIT Gandhinagar Organises Science Awareness Programme For School Students
NDTV
The event is part of the Government of India’s ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations to commemorate 75 years of independence. The programme is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
The Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) today commended a week-long science awareness programme on its campus for school students of classes 11t and 12. More than 800 school students and teachers from Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar will participate in different activities that will go on till February 25.
The event is part of the Government of India’s ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations to commemorate 75 years of independence. The programme is funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
“The Institute has arranged several interesting and hands-on activities for visiting school students with an aim to popularise STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) learning and inspire them to pursue careers in various fields of STEM,” IIT Gandhinagar said.
Around 200 students with their teachers visited IITGN on the first day. Aastha Rawat, a Class 12 Science student from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Gandhinagar, said, “I really enjoyed this visit to IITGN and various labs. We could see so many scientific demonstrations in-person and learnt a lot.”
