A group of sixty students from the St. Joseph High School, Golmuri, Jamshedpur accompanied by two teachers, Vidya Murty and Rajesh Thakur visited the CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory on Thursday and interacted with scientists and research scholars this morning under the aegis of CSIR - jigyasa programme. The objective of the program is to provide exposure to a research environment and simultaneously motivate science among school students and further pursue a career in the science stream. The students were thrilled to visit the laboratory and interact with the working group.
The aim of organizing this laboratory visit was to create interest in scientific innovation and to encourage the participation of students in developing innovative scientific content on a virtual platform for the Jigyasa Virtual Laboratory project.
Mita Tarafder, chief scientist & head, KRIT Division, CSIR-NML, and the Project Leader of the CSIR Jigyasa Virtual Laboratory project delivered the welcome address. In her address, she briefly talked about CSIR and the R&D and support facilities at CSIR-NML, gave an insight into learning by knowing and learning by doing, and encouraged students to think from a practical point of view.
Dr. Aniket Dutt, Project Scientist from the KRIT Division team gave a short presentation on the CSIR-Jigyasa portal. The team helped the students and teachers who showed interest to subscribe to the Youtube channel of the CSIR-NML Jigyasa program.
The organizing team expressed their gratitude to the Director of CSIR-NML for permitting them to conduct this program. The day-long program included a visit to some research laboratories, like Asia’s second largest creep testing facilities working under the materials testing and evaluation division, workshops and NML Museum. The students and teachers were very happy with the overall experience.
