Science Congress:
Children Science Congress
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The Children Science Congress kindle curiosity of the
children, provide the opportunity to unfold their creativeness and
stretch their imagination, show them how they can play useful role
for the betterment of the society. Keeping this in mind the first
Children Science Congress, was organised in 1993 at Bal Bhawan, New
Delhi from Dec. 20-23, was a unique experiment of its kind. The
Second Children Science Congress was similarly organised in 1994 at
Bharatiyam Gram, Nizamuddin from 27.12.94 to 31.12.94. The Third and
Fourth Congress were organised in Guwahati, Assam (1995) and
Hydreabad, Andhra Pradesh (1996) respectively. |
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In the Golden
Jubilee years of Independence of our Country, the Fifth National
Children Science Congress has been organised from 27.12.97 to
31.12.97 at Regional Institute of Education, Shyamala Hills, Bhopal.
The Sixth National Children Science Congress was organised at
Chinnai and Seventh at Goa and Eighth at Kolkata.. |
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OBJECTIVES: |
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The Children's
Science Congress which is specifically meant for children of school
going age (10-17) years, split into two categories, 10-14 years and
14 to 17 years) has the following basic objectives. |
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1. To provide
a forum to children to pursue their natural curiosity and quench
their thirst for creativity;
2. To provide an opportunity to children to relate the learning of
science to the environment around them;
3. To encourage children throughout the country to attempt to know
their immediate social and physical environment and its problems and
to attempt to find feasible solutions to them;
4. To stimulate scientific temper among children through the 'method
of science' i.e. observation, collection of data, experimentation,
analysis and then arriving at a conclusion and then preparing and
presenting a report. |
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decided that to realise these objective, each nexium 40 mg success nexium 40 mg success. . forex market trading . Dream about heaps of cash? The limit poker rules is where your dreams will come true. . Try your chosen casino roulette plus get appreciation bonuses. year it would organise
a nation-wide Children Science Congress which would have a focal
theme chosen so that children would be able to explore the real
world using the 'method of science'. |
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The idea
behind this Congress is that a group of children will take a local
area problem, link it up with the community and try to find a
solution using, the methods of science. The project activity and
large scale participation of rural children is expected to raise the
spirit of scientific enquiry among the children as well as
strengthen the science education in the existing school system.
Lakhs of children and thousands of teachers are involved in this
process, which starts at the block level goes to district, State and
National Levels. |
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MPCST supports every year for
organizing state level Children Science Congress. Science Center (Gwalior)
M.P. identified as a nodal agency by NCSTC, DST, GOI, New Delhi for
organization of the congress in state. In the year 2000-2001, the
state level Children Science Congress was organised at Indore. Total
240 children participated and presented their projects. 35 projects
were selected for the participation in National Children Science
Congress, at Kolkata from 27th to 31st Dec. 2000. Three projects
were selected for participation in Indian Science Congress, New
Delhi. |
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Ninth state level Children Science
Congress (2001-2002) will be organized at Sagar in the month of
November 2001.
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