Various school-centric events such as setting up Atal Tinkering Labs have been planned. Facebook
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-National Metallurgical Laboratory (NML), Jamshedpur, organised a virtual lecture for school students and teachers to make science lessons interesting.
The lecture on Computational Material Science was held on February 25 under the
CSIR-Jigyasa Virtual Laboratory project.
Mita Tarafder, chief scientist and head of knowledge resource and information technology (KRIT) division at CSIR-NML, delivered the welcome address. She welcomed the guest speaker and the audience and introduced the CSIR Jigyasa programme.
Tarafder discussed how to make learning science effortless and innovative with scientific content such as 3D printing and e-waste recycling. The programme will be available in the form of videos, comics, animation, games and simulation.
Various school-centric events such as adopting a central government initiative Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) and initiating CSIR-NML Science Clubs have been planned. Tarafder requested everyone to access the lectures and events of the Jigyasa programme through the YouTube link of CSIR-NML.
The guest speaker for the evening was Sunil Kumar, senior scientist at CSIR-NML. He discussed hardware and software, various operating systems and programming languages and basic concepts of atomistic simulation that included writing code, compilation and execution of code. He ended his lecture by discussing common simulation methods and their applications and also the software and books available on this subject. A question-and-answer session followed.
The virtual programme was attended by more than 50 people.