For the first time
ever, the youth festival is being held in an open air venue. The
objective to choose an open air venue was to ignite space science
interest among students. With the help of the festival the students can
acknowledge the enormous possibilities of space science and showcase
their artistic flair. There were 9,000 students from 192 schools in the
state who participated in the fete. The competitions are going on
between schools from Parassala and Kasargod.
There were 8 stages set up at the science park on which the
competitions were being held. Till now approx 2,000 students have
registered their names for off-stage events and about 5,800 students for
on-stage events.
The competition
among the student is to bag the Sabareesh memorial ever-rolling trophy
which will be given away to the winning district.
Science too finds space
The ‘India in Space’ exhibition displayed by the VSSC (Vikram Sarabhai
Science Centre), Thiruvananthapuram, was the Sarabhai Science Park’s
major attraction. The exhibition attracted a remarkable number of
students.
The exhibition was to
help students in understanding country’s future space projects, rocket
technology and India’s space programme, which was ISRO’s (Indian Space
Research Organization) outreach programme.
ISRO receives almost 600 to 700 requests to organize such exhibitions
in colleges and schools, every year. But, the Organization is able to
conduct only about 55 exhibitions in a year. Prioritizing the space
science awareness among students ISRO prefer organizing such events in
schools and engineering colleges.
There will also be a space museum set up at the part by 2016. The
upcoming launch of water rocket is also considered to be one of the
major attractions.
A students was also bowld over by the models of Rohini and INSAT 3B, Chandrayaan-I.
Source: Minglebox
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