Bhubaneswar: The Regional Science Centre (RSC) has launched an initiative to encourage slum children to join the mainstream of science education.
Around 100 kids from slums came to the science centre and visited the science auditorium. A team of experts demonstrated experiments like the air pressure science experiment, balloon hovercraft, instant cloud science experiment and others to them.
The children also visited the Science Park and gallery and saw several science projects.
The new project coordinator of RSC, Haraprasad Mishra, said they want more and more children to learn science.
He said that practical knowledge was very important in science, but unfortunately the students of rural areas and slums don’t get a chance to experience science.
He said that through the initiative the RSC is exposing slum children to science hoping that it will encourage them to take it up.
He said that although he had joined the centre only last month he would try to encourage students to take up science. Mishra said that he had written a letter to the DEO of Khurda to send more children to RSC.
“We will soon hold a meeting on starting a new aquarium and waterfalls at the centre and a park nearby. We will send the proposal to the National Council of Science Museums, an autonomous council under the Union Ministry of Culture,” Mishra added.
We are also planning to send vans to all districts to present the science curriculum to students, he said.
