State’s first Children’s Science Festival inaugurated in Champawat
The Council of Technology (UCOST) started the first state level Children’s Science Festival from Saturday. 250 school children from six border districts participated in it.
A science festival will be organized by UCOST on 19th and 20th at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Champawat. Inaugurating the fest, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that ‘we want the children of our state to move ahead with the technology of the country and the world. Today, knowledge science is progressing rapidly.’ He said that the Prime Minister always says that there is no such work which is possible without knowledge and science.
UCOST Director General Prof. Durgesh Pant said that 250 school children from six border districts of the state Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar, Champawat and Pithoragarh have been selected in the last few weeks, who are participating in this Science Fest.
The objective of the two-day festival is to sensitize the students of remote schools of the state towards traditional knowledge, to develop scientific temper in them and to popularize modern science and technology in a big way in the state.
After this, on 20 November, Governor Lt. Gen (Retd.) Gurmeet Singh will attend the closing ceremony. UCOST Manager Public Relations Amit Pokhriyal said that in this unique Children’s Science Festival, the participants will be able to discuss with the invited scientists, listen to their lectures, through science exhibition, scientific workshop, sky observation through telescope, planetarium show, science film show etc. There will also be an opportunity to take guidance from them.
Poster competition (local traditional knowledge system), science quiz competition, poetry reading (Hindi and local language), poetry Teaching English is being organized. Many senior scientists, experts and thinkers from across the country are participating in this festival.
