By Mahesh Vaidya | Director
Indian Institute of Science is worlds premier research institute in the filed of sciences. Most of studnets who are poor and from rural back ground do not even know that India has such great research facility at Bangalore. Even if they new they would never dream of taking look at what is inside this institute. IISC once year has open day for general public and all are invited to visit its labs. We made use of this opportunity and got our students visit IISC labs.
Organized a visit to Indian Institute of Science for 320 students (Various rural schools) to expose them to various science models, live demonstrations for a first hand demonstration. The participants were from 8th and 9th standard classes and were thrilled to have a unique experience enriching their knowledge, in a simplistic way. These students were guided and taken care by 30 Vidya Chetana volunteers. In fact their role was the catalyst in enhancing the students curiosity. The discovery program for these students started at 10 am and ended by 4 pm.
They were exposed to the following models and demonstrations-
1. Exploiting wireless channel structure for high data video communication- This demonstration proved how two unconnected and wireless computers could converse each other and data could be transferred through antennae.
2. ECE massive MIMO system design challenge- How fast can 1GB data be downloaded in the next generation systems.
3. Smart Campus Water Management- The IoT technology stack is used for Smart Management of Campus Utilities. It is deployed for sustainable water management within the Indian Institute of Science campus, which serves as a living laboratory for controlled yet realistic validation. The outcome will lead to lower energy use through optimal pump operations, improve water quality through online prediction and detection, and reduce the water usage through knowledge sharing within a campus eco-system.
4. MyMo wireless technology- The importance and essentials of being connected via 4G was explained to the students
5. Air Show- The flight operations and fundamentals behind the flight technology was explained to the students with small model flights being demonstrated live. The landing phenomenon of the flight was also explained.
6. Chemistry - Fireball Experiment (Making Fireballs which could be held in our hands) - Fire is made up of light and heated gases from combustion. Controlling the temperature of the fire by selecting a fuel that burns with a cool flame, one can hold the flame in hands or juggle. Likewise other demonstrations such as Bleeding experiment, making ice appear to be on fire, really burning the ice, flaming ice safety were also conducted.
These demonstrations created a big thrill and ensured to incite the flame of curiosity and experimenting the same among the students. Many of them wanted to experiment and do the same at their convenience. This visit helped in creating a a deep positive impact among many students to pursue science in their career.
By Mahesh Vaidya | Project Coordinator
By Mahesh Vaidya | Director
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