Oath to spread science taken at Project ‘Life’

Project ‘Life’ welcomes innovative ideas for spreading science and scientific attitude in students. Following the same convention, Project ‘Life’ organized a workshop cum session of interaction with Mr. Anil Babber of Think Labs, Mumbai with the teachers’ fraternity of Rajkot at ‘Life’ building on 5^th and 6^th of March, 2013.

Under the Project ‘Life’ initiative Center for Excellence in Education, Primary School Infrastructure Development Programme in rural area is being carried out since 2001 and 53 schools have been dedicated until now. Moreover, for the holistic development of students, various programmes like Talent Hunt, Joy of Giving, scholarships etc are carried out throughout the year. Science on Wheels is the project initiated by Project ‘Life’ in the year 2009 with the aim to develop scientific mind-set and improve observational skills and to make children be equipped with activity-based science-learning and also to make teachers be equipped with newer ways of ’Learning by doing' to fortify the curricular concepts and to make schools be equipped with scientific instruments through the science kits. During the academic year 2012-13 Project ‘Life’ benefitted more than 55,000 students of 220 schools with its Science Kit.

‘Think Labs’ incepted in 2006 has grown from strength to strength and morphed into a dedicated provider of hands-on science and technology education in India.

‘Think LABS’ is motivating students towards science and re-inventing education in technology arena. In this effort of ‘Think Labs’, the active support of IIT Bombay and Seedfund have played a significant role in the activities.

Mr. Anil Babber shared different techniques to make the Science learning easy and effective during the session. The Education Department of Project ‘Life’ and the teachers of Rajkot and other centers enjoyed learning.

According to Salim Bloch, Assistant Manager Education, Project ‘Life’, “Teachers present here in the session, would disseminate knowledge of science to the students, with the techniques taught by Mr. Babber.”