CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre (CSIR-SERC), organised a CSIR Jigyasa Summer Camp’ exclusively for the state government school students from July 24 – 26 at CSIR Campus, Taramani.
In the event, 39 students and 13 teachers from four Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chennai and Chengalpattu districts participated.
Dr.N.Anandavalli – Director of CSIR-SERC, Dr. S. Maheswaran – Senior Principal Scientist, Dr.J.Rajasankar – Chief Scientist, and E.Ashokkumar – Scientist addressed the inaugural session.
Dr.Anandavalli motivated the audience with her talk ‘Inspire from Nature; Protect it for Future’. She encouraged the students to be creative, and innovative, and to achieve success by way of dreaming big, fixing definite goals, preparing definite plans, working hard and acting with persistence. Few also explained some of the inventions inspired by nature.
The students and teachers visited various laboratories of CSIR-SERC, and the scientists of various laboratories demonstrated different experiments to the students. For the next two days, various events, such as laboratory visits, quiz programmes, hands-on experiments, and scientific demonstrations, were organised for the participants.
