To foster scientific temper among the students an exposure trip to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, for Science students of Government Higher Secondary Schools was organised by Samagra Shiksha Nagaland under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA).
A total of 39 students- three each from all districts, along with four teacher guides, were selected for the trip with an objective to broaden their horizons, spark curiosity and inspire them to explore the wonders of science from December 14 to 17, 2024.
At IIT Guwahati, a career counselling session was taken by Prof. Ramesh Kumar Sonkar, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, and interactive session on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence by Dr. Debanga Raj from DS and AI,Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.
The students also had the opportunity to visit the Central Library, Computer and Communication Centre (Supercomputer), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.
It may be noted that Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) primarily focused to enable children to become motivated and engaged in Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) through observation, experimentation, inference drawing, model building, rational reasoning, testability etc and also to create curiosity, excitement and exploration among school children in Science, Mathematics and Technology. It also aimed to create a culture of thinking, inventing, tinkering and doing to promote inquiry based learning in Schools.