Trichi Dist. Children's Science Congress in October
Special CorrespondentTIRUCHI: The Tiruchi district conference of the 18 th National Children's Science Congress-2010 would be held here in October and the theme of the conference would be ‘Land resource use for prosperity save for posterity.' The conference would be conducted in coordination with the Tamil Nadu Science Forum (TNSF).
P.M.Sabarikumar, Tiruchi district joint secretary of the TNSF and also district coordinator of the conference, said on Sunday that the objective of the Children's Science Congress (CSC) was to make a forum available to children of the age group of 10-17 years, both from formal school system as well as from out of school, to exhibit their creativity to solve a societal problem experienced locally using science. This is a forum open to young scientists in the age group of 10 to 14 (lower age group) and 14-17 (upper age group) as on December 31 .A group of children can do the project with the help of scientists, school teachers, coordinators of school science clubs and activists of science-based voluntary organisations, he said.
Mr Sabarikumar said a two-day orientation programme was conducted recently in Tiruchi, Lalgudi, Manapparai, Musiri and Mannachanallur centres for 365 teacher guides from 340 middle, high, higher secondary, matriculation and CBSE schools from 16 blocks of the Tiruchi district who were selected to guide 500 students. The main theme ‘Land resource use for prosperity save for posterity' will have the sub-themes like know your land, , anthropogenic activity on land, sustainable and community use of land resources.
The State-level conference would be held in November and national level in December this year.The registration forms and project reports should be submitted to Mr P.M.Sabarikumar (Tiruchi district coordinator of the conference), No.3, Sakthi Nagar (West Extension), Woraiyur, Tiruchi-620003 (Mobile: 9842647053) before August 27.
source : The Hindu
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