Sci-connect: an initiative of Vigyan Prasar for North-Eastern India

Abstract

Vigyan Prasar is the leading institute in the Science Communication in India. Vigyan Prasar has objective of developing the knowledge of science, make decisions, asking questions and creating a curious tendency among public. The Sci-connect program was started in 2017 in the North Eastern States like Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim and Tripura in which students of class 8-9 students took part. This program is a different kind of program in itself, in which quiz competitions are organized based on the popular science films of Vigyan Prasar. The students selected after the district level examination are given a chance to participate in the workshop of "Hands on Science". In this program, 6000 students participated in 2017, whereas in year 2018 about 9000 children have participated. In this program, rolling trophy was awarded to the state getting first place. Tripura was first, Mizoram second and Sikkim stood third in the year 2017, whereas in the year 2018, Assam stood first, Mizoram second and Tripura in third place. Nearly 50 subject experts, 200 teachers and 15000 students have been added to the program. Films of science propagation have been accessed and seen in remote places of North-Eastern States by this program. Social media such as Face book and YouTube were also used to promote the films. The movies were covered on the vigyan prasar U-tube page and sciconnect2017 U-tube page, which participants saw and participated in the program.