ILLUMINATI- ALTAR OF SCIENCE

Dear all, Happy Christmas to all…. Today I am writing to you to report about two activities which I have involved in the past few days. Program one is the visit to Trivandrum observatory on December 7, 2017. Program two is invited talk by Dr. Antony on the topic “Solar Corona Problem” (December 11, 2017). Let me detail to you the above events. The first event is really one of its kind. It was a long cherished dream to go with students for a field trip outside Kariavattom campus. The main motivation behind the program was the spirits of first year students. They were willing and ready to take up the call to make a visit to observatory. We left the campus by 2:30 pm to reach Planetarium, Pattom. We watch the planetarium theatre show at 3:00 pm. All the students may have visited the place when they were kids. But to be once again the same kids after few years was really a moment to watch. The students gathered together and planned to make a visit to observatory. It was nice t...

Few more activities have happened. Hence i feel that November is always eventful. On 18.11.2017, I have been actively involved as Jury member for Shasthrolsavam-Science Fest-Ernakulum District. This time i had the opportunity to see the improvised experiments. The important thing that we can notice is that students are eager to share their ideas, knowledge with vigor and enthusiasm. It is appreciable that students are benefited in many folds while participating in science fest. Firstly, they get grace mark of 30 marks, which is good and fine as an appreciation of their efforts. Secondly, they could see and interact with all those curious minds in science. After evaluating the program, it is sure that there are many firms which are involved in making ready made projects for the students. But it doesn’t lessen their effort to learn them in most convincing way as possible to answer all the so called crooked questions. Yes, kudos to them for their efforts. Attaching some p...