Guwahati, Oct 13 (PTI) A two-day festival opens heretomorrow to take science to the people and out of the confinesof classrooms and journals, an organiser said.
The festival -- 'Reverberations: We are ScienceCommunicators' -- seeks to popularise science while ignitingyoung minds, Ratna Bharali Talukdar, the executive editor of abilingual web magazine which has organised the event, said.
"Scientists and science teachers have the expertise inexplaining the rudiments of science but these often remainlimited to classrooms, journals, workshops and laboratoriesand seldom reach the masses," Talukdar told PTI.
She said the festival, organised by 'NEZINE MEDIA,aimed at encouraging the youth to take to sciencecommunication.
The multi-venue science communication festival is forstudents of schools, colleges and universities in Assam andother northeastern states.
"We hope the festival will bring forth sciencecommunicators who can play the crucial role of utilising thespace in traditional media, the convergent media and the newmedia to bridge the gap between the scientific community andthe masses and leverage media tools to popularise science andpromote a scientific temperament," Talukdar added.
Among the highlight of the festival are talks bysound designer Amrit Pritam on 'Science of Sound and its usein communication' and by population activist Ilias Ali on'Population explosion and the role of media' and skilldevelopment workshops on photography, digital media and videomaking.
Edugenie, a Guwahati-based education start-upestablished by a team of IIT Guwahati alumni, which provideshands-on learning solutions through an innovativetechnology-based environment, will organise puzzles andscience shows while the Amateur Radio Society of Assam willhold a programme on the use of ham radios.
Under the segment 'Science Communication on Wheels', avan with resource persons, science communication material andexhibits will also travel to different places in Assam fromOctober 20 to connect with students.
The festival has been organised with the support ofthe Assam Skill Development Mission, Oil India Limited andNumaligarh Refinery Limited. PTI DGBDS.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.