August 2, 2018; Thursday
The 'Science Camp-2018' was started with a brief introduction by Dr. Kailash N Bhardwaj inside the conference room of Regional Science Center (RSC) Dehradun. Sir talked about transforming ideas to solve the routine life problems. He stressed on discovery and innovation without doing lots of experimental or literature research, rather by click of ideas in mind and applying to change lives.
This camp is a five days out school event of Science department with having futuristic follow up activities for students. These follow up activities will engage students in doing applied science throughout their life. Additionally, this camp has strong foundation of refreshing students mind to innovate, discover and transforming knowledge of science in real life situation. Follow up activities are;
Before departing school for the 'Science Camp-2018', all the selected students and stake holders had gathered near headmaster's office for the final interactive session. Headmaster Mr. Tsultrim Kalsang la advised about being an ambassador of school throughout the proceeding of the camp. It was followed by final briefing by Mr. Lhakpa Wangyal and Mr. Tenzin Jamyang.
The 'Science Camp-2018' was started with a brief introduction by Dr. Kailash N Bhardwaj inside the conference room of Regional Science Center (RSC) Dehradun. Sir talked about transforming ideas to solve the routine life problems. He stressed on discovery and innovation without doing lots of experimental or literature research, rather by click of ideas in mind and applying to change lives.
This fun filled camp of learning and doing science is organised with following objectives;
- To popularize science
- To supplement science learning.
- To inspire and motivate students to discover and innovate by developing rational attitude towards various phenomenon among our students.
- To develop scientific temperament.
This camp is a five days out school event of Science department with having futuristic follow up activities for students. These follow up activities will engage students in doing applied science throughout their life. Additionally, this camp has strong foundation of refreshing students mind to innovate, discover and transforming knowledge of science in real life situation. Follow up activities are;
- Preparing a presentation from each group formed in the science camp during science week
- To prepare students for the upcoming CTA level Science, Mathematics and Environmental Science Exhibitions.
- To select potential projects for the upcoming CTA level Science, Mathematics and Environmental Science Exhibitions.
From August 2 to August 7, 2018, 52 competent students will be exposed to learning science by doing activities in four major disciplines of science like robotics, electronics and arduino, biotechnology and general science. Details of daily activities are as follows;
ELECTRONIC AND ARDUINO
Day 1: Electronic basic
concepts, working of Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes, Resistors Color Coding,
Ohms Law, Series and Parallel connection, LED and Multimeter Technique.
Day 2: Basics of Arduino
Uno board, Simulation of electronic circuit by proteus, programming concept,
Interfacing of Resistors and LED, Switch and LDR.
Day 3: Interfacing of
Arduino with Ultrasonic Sensor, Interfacing of Arduino with Temperature sensor
and build a project on Automatic Street Light Control.
Day 4: interfacing of Arduino with LCD, Bluetooth
Module and interfacing of Arduino with IC L9110
and Motor.
Day 5: Build a project on the basis what they have learned
till now like Home Security System, Bluetooth controlled Home automation
system, Real time weather monitoring etc
ROBOTICS
Day
1: Introduction to Lego
Robot by power presentation and building a basic robot & its inbuilt
programming.
Day
2: Introduction to
programming by Lego software and programming of sensor.
Day
3: Robotics challenge competition.
Day
4: Assembling and designing
Robot with assignments, such as Ball hunter, Electric guitar, Line Follower,
Machine gun, Puppy Robot, Power saw, Robot arm, Dog sled team.
Day
5: Programming of Robot challenge.
BIOLOGY-BIOTECHNOLOGY
Day 1: pH meter calibration and measuring pH of
different specimens, isolation of bacteria from different soil
Day 2: Enumeration and purification of bacteria,
examine the antibiotic sensitivity of bacteria
Day 3: Staining of bacteria and determination of
their size, and extraction of DNA
Day 4: Field visit (apiculture; herbarium
preparation & plant taxonomy; animal/bird/butterfly identification)
Day 5: Paper chromatography, amylase enzyme activity
and Agarose gel electrophoresis
CREATIVE SCIENCE
Various
scientific phenomenon based toy/model making, such as, wind mill, aeroplane,
action-reaction car, maglev train, hand-pump, glider, speaker, electromagnet,
grinding machine, air canon, JCB model, catapult etc. for all the 5 days.
