By Jaya Chandrayan | Project Officer - Donor Relation
Hope you are doing well!
Here sharing with you a story of two girls who were inspired by Agastya Science Center.
Geetha and Sangeetha have seen the Agastya Mobile Van with its exciting science experiments about a dozen times. They make sure to visits the Agastya Science Center as often as they can, even though it is a long way by bicycle. Geetha’s father is a baker and Sangeetha’s father sells soap.
Awarded a certificate at the INSPIRE awards conducted by the Government of India for their model of an iron crane to transport heavy materials; the girls are currently researching methods to prepare huli nuchu (Indian sweet snack) on a low budget. A popular sweet treat made from jowar(grain) and lemon, this is traditionally prepared for the Manigoli Chaatra festival in honor of Lord Basavanappa. Its preparation is long, tedious and not inexpensive, but much to the delight of children all over Mangoli, it lasts for days without refrigeration. The girls decided to research why.
Mr. Chandrakanth from Agastya took them to Hitnalli Agricultural Farm where they met Mr. Aswatham and Dr. Prema Patil. Dr. Prema offered to take them to the Ana Lab in Solapur but since the timing clashed and studied the nutritional content of the dish and intended to present their findings at the IRISH competition.
Both hope to become doctors when they grow up. But, they say, they will inject the professions with their own twist of creativity by using “household ideas and objects to heal the sick and change the world”.
Agastya-exposed students demonstrate high levels of leadership, problem-solving, creativity, curiosity and awareness. These skills, in turn, fuel five broad behavior shifts-evolving from saying
During the last quarter, April to June’ 17, conducted 56129 student exposures comprising of 28598 boy exposures, 27531 girl exposures along with 114 teacher exposures.
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