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250 students take part in INSPIRE science camp
As many as 250 students from 10 colleges and schools are participated in the five-day science camp “Innovation in sciences pursuit for inspired research (INSPIRE),” initiated by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, hosted by GITAM Institute of Science, GITAM here on Wednesday.
Visakhapatnam: As many as 250 students from 10 colleges and schools are participated in the five-day science camp “Innovation in sciences pursuit for inspired research (INSPIRE),” initiated by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, hosted by GITAM Institute of Science, GITAM here on Wednesday.
The camp was inaugurated by Vice-Chancellor of GITAM MS Prasada Rao in the presence of Indian Institute of Science, Organic Chemistry Professor KR Prasad and IIT Chennai Physics Professor A Subrahmanyam.
Inaugurating the programme, GITAM Vice-Chancellor Prasada Rao mentioned that science and technology play a leading role and act as growth engine of the world. “For this, it is significant to inspire young generation towards science and technology. INSPIRE is one of the innovative programmes developed by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
The basic objective of “INSPIRE” is to attract talent to study sciences at an early stage and help build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the science and technology system besides research and development base,” Prasada Rao said.
He also highlighted different government schemes meant for students through which they could pursue higher education in sciences and avail many other opportunities.
On the first day of event, scholars presented intellectual lectures on science and technology. In the first session, Indian Institute of Sciences (IISc) Organic Chemistry Prof KR Prasad briefed on how chemistry was seen by chemists in the 15th century compared to modern day chemistry labs.
