Exhibition – NCSC/Science/Etc

The Children’s Science Congress has its modest beginning as an experiment in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in the early nineties. It Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh in the early nineties. It became a nationwide activity since 1993 with the holding of first National Children’s Science Congress (NCSC) in Delhi. Since 1993 NCSC is held during the last five days (27-31) of December every year. The quantitative and quantitative expansion of NCSC has drawn attention of different countries. NCSC in previous years was attendant key observers from Germany, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, ASEAN Countries etc.

Objectives

The primary objectives of the Children’s Science Congress is to make a forum available to children of the age-group of 10-17 years, both from formal school system as well as from out of school, to exhibit their creativity and innovativeness and more particularly their ability to solve a societal problem experienced locally using the method of science.

By implication, the CSC prompts children to think of some significant societal problem, ponder over its causes and subsequently try and solve the same using the scientific process. This involves close and keen observation, raising pertinent questions, building models, predicting solutions on the basis of a model, trying out various possible alternatives and arriving at an optimum solution using experimentation, field work, research and innovative ideas. The Children’s Science Congress encourages a sense of discovery. It emboldens the participants to question many aspects of our progress and development and express their findings in vernacular.