Children at a summer camp. File picture

June 24: Clay modelling, art and crafts, graphics and animation, electronics, chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, reading and excursion — with so many activities to choose from summer vacation for once won’t be boring.

The Regional Science Centre at Khanapara and Anwesha, an NGO working to promote books among students, have come forward to make the monthlong vacation filled with fun activities, which will also help them learn new things.

The summer vacation with a hobby camp on the premises of the Regional Science Centre will cover the entire July month.

As part of the programme, the science centre will also organise an educational excursion to different scientific institutions on July 16.

“The idea behind this excursion is to expose the children to science. It is now being observed that students are moving away from science and joining other streams. For a developing country like India it is absolutely necessary to nurture the best of brains for the development of science and technology,” project co-coordinator of the centre, V.S. Sharma, said.

Sharma said the hobby camp would provide the students with necessary guidance to develop their innovative ideas into a meaningful kit or model. “It is a nodal point for all those students who have a desire to explore science by practically doing fun experiment. The students are also expected to work in a team,” Sharma said.

“As the seats are limited it will be on first-come-first-serve basis. We will take the students who will register their names first. We have made our registration forms available on the centre’s website, rscguwahati.gov.in,” he added. Anwesha started its summer reading programme, Summer Reading 2012, yesterday on their office premises at Chenikuthi.

In this programme, the organisation and different city schools prepare a list of some books to be read by the students during the vacation. The NGO provides these books to the students and after reading the students have to submit a report to their teachers.

Maria’s Public School academic director Maya Choudhury and Maharishi Vidya Mandir, Silpukhuri, principal Manika Goswami attended the inaugural function.

“Reading a good work of fiction is like entering into a world of words. When you come out of it you feel as if you have come out of a magical world,” poet Harekrishna Dekaafter inaugurating the camp, said.

Anwesha president Paresh Malakar said they had been running the programme for more than five years and the number of schools participating in the programme increased over the years.

All Guwahati Students’ Union leader Simanta Thakuria said their 26 units would start a monthlong free coaching for Classes IX and X students from July 1.