RSC plans science summer camps for children

Bhubaneswar: The Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar, has launched a new concept at its summer camp this year named ‘You do You Understand.’
At the camp general science topics from the school syllabus which students generally find difficult to understand will be selected and students will do experiments on them. After the camp the students can take home the models they made.
RSC Project Coordinator Haraprasad Mishra said the main aim of the camp will be to expose students to science and make it fun for them. The camp will also try to make them learn lessons through experiments.
Students will be divided into the three categories of little groups, junior groups and senior groups. “They will experiment on Electrical DC Motor, AC Generator, series and parallel circuits, 3D Printing, Microbiology, Robotics etc,” Mishra said. Small children will have science shows that will provide them fun and entertainment. The camp will start May 7 and will continue till June 9. A large number of students are expected at the camp.
We recently launched an initiative to encourage children from slums to join the mainstream of science education,” he added.
Around 100 kids from slums came to the 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.
Mishra said they wanted more and more children to learn science. He said that practical knowledge was very important in science, but unfortunately rural students and slum kids don’t get a chance to experience science.
He said that the RSC is exposing slum children to science hoping that it will encourage them to take it up.
Mishra said that he had joined the centre recently and is trying to encourage students to take up science. He said that he had written a letter to the DEO of Khurda to send more children to the RSC.