Inspire Internship Science Camp at iLEAD
The Inspire Internship Science
Camp in association is an initiative by the Department of Science of Technology
under Ministry of Science and Technology, India to encourage students for
endeavors and jobs in the field of science, technology and research. From
December 13th – December 17th,
students from various
schools like Army Public School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Patha Bhavan and many
other schools were present at iLEAD campus to participate in the five day long
Inspire Science Internship Camp under the supervision of Director General of iLEAD,
Dr UK Neogi. Renowned and famous
professionals in the field of science like Dr. Debiprosad Duari, Dr. Paromita
Roy, Professor Samar Kumar Bagchi and many others shared their knowledge and
interacted with the students in sessions held at iLEAD auditorium. The
practical sessions were held at the new iLEAD campus for hands on experiences
and enrichment of students in their respective fields of interest.
Day 1,
December 13th
The first day saw more than 130
students gathering at the iLEAD campus. The event started with encouraging
students through recorded speeches of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. Introductory speeches to ignite young minds
by iLEAD Chairman, Mr. Pradip Chopra, Dr. Debiprosad Duari and Prof. Tarasankar
Pal also garnered tremendous enthusiasm by students.
Following this, Dr Duari presented his lecture
on ‘Astronomy and Astrophysics, Concepts and Challenges’ and discussed every
possible topic in the field which the students listened with great
interest. Prof. Tarasankar Pal, spoke on
‘Chemistry of Metals and Metal Oxides’. According to some students never before
were sessions on chemistry so interesting.
During the second half, the students were taken to the new campus, where
they participated in various laboratory activities.
Professor Samar Kumar Bagchi demonstrated
various experiments with the help of students and provided simplified examples
of some laws and formulas. He even demonstrated Newton’s laws using suitable
experiments. The interactive session continued with Dr. Sibaji Raha’s lecture
on climate change, its impacts and how to deal with them and post lunch, the
students got to know much more about the sessions via demonstrations at the
laboratories.
Day 3, December 15th
The day started with a new lecture on ‘Water
Pollution and its Remedy’ – one of the most critical environmental topics of
the decade by Dr. Anjali Pal. The threat
of water crisis and pollution seemed too real and frightening when Dr. Pal said
that within another fifty years, all countries would be at war amongst each
other for water. She ended her lecture with a talk on ‘Green Chemistry’ which
is used to synthesize chemicals of less hazardous nature.
Dr. Papiya Nandy spoke on ‘The Allure of
Science’ or ‘the call of science’. This talk was filled with anecdotes and
trivia from the lives of Niels Bohr, J.C. Bose, Rutherford, Einstein and many
others. The topics which she elaborately
explained were: Beauty of Science, Why Science should be studied, Importance of
Scientific Studies, Government policies for further Scientific Studies,
Government’s role in helping scientists and The Importance of Science Camps. She
also spoke on Science and Ethics, where she discussed ethics in the field of
science and medicine.
Day 4, December 16th
Dr. Paromita Roy, spoke about the Indian
education system, adolescence, why creativity is important to study science and
about the various mindsets. Following this Dr. Probal Chaudhuri conducted an
interesting session on the shape of the earth and the problem of inconsistent
equations. He spoke about various experiments relating to the equations he
explained. After the lunch break, the students were taken to the new campus for
practical sessions.
Day 5, December 17th
Dr. Arindam Rana spoke to the students about science
as a study of nature and demonstrated experiments with active participation
from the students. After this, iLEAD Chairman Mr Pradip Chopra discussed environmental
issues that we face today, and showed few minutes of the movie “An Inconvenient
Truth” which explained the environmental problems that the world is
facing.
After the lunch break, certificates of
participation at the Inspire Science Camp were distributed and students shared
their experiences and conveyed how they were inspired by the science camp.
The event concluded with screening of iLEAD’s
“1971 India’s Finest Hour” which is a part of the 45th Vijay Diwas
celebrations.
About iLEAD:
Institute
of Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Development (ilead) is one of the premier
Media and Management School of Kolkata having world class
infrastructure excellent teaching and non teaching staff and is
using latest educated technologies and is affiliated to West Bengal University
of Technology (WBUT) and is located in the heart of the City. To know more
about Ilead one can visit : www.ilead.net.in.
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