Registrations are invited for Science Over Weekends Programme 2024 for Students in Classes 8-10 by Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru. The classes will start from July 7, 2024.

About the Planetarium

The Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium (JNP) is administered by Bangalore Association for Science Education (BASE). The BASE is devoted to science popularisation and non formal science education.

Programme Details

Students motivated towards a research career return to the planetarium after the short programs of summer vacation. They spend a few hours over the weekends in understanding a specific topic in greater depth. The sessions involve interactions, discussions, demonstrations, mathematical analysis, and visits to research institutes.

Weekend classes are conducted for high school students. These are NOT tutorial classes that prepare students to face and excel in the examination. The principal aim of these classes is to provide a thorough understanding of scientific concepts through sessions that involve rigorous discussions, problem solving and experimentation which shape the students with right attitude towards scientific research.

Students of classes VIII to X attend two-hour sessions every Sunday between 10:30 am and 12:00 pm. The sessions usually commence on the last Sunday of June or the First Sunday of July and continue till the first Sunday of February. Each year, one topic that is prescribed in the high school syllabus in science is taken up for a detailed discussion.

The thrust in these sessions is on the development of logical thinking and problem solving. The width and depth of the discussions are not limited by any syllabus. That renders it suitable for students of various degrees of learning abilities. ‘Newton’s Laws of Motion’, ‘Optics’, ‘Electricity’ and ‘Magnetism’ are some of the topics that have been discussed in this programme so that a student attending these classes for three consecutive years will learn all the topics.

Maximum No. of Students

40.

Duration

July 2024-February 2025.

Timings

Sundays, 10:30 AM-12 Noon.

How to Register?

Interested students can register online via this link.

Contact

Email: info[at]taralaya[dot]org

Click here to view the official notification of Science Over Weekends Programme 2024 for Students in Classes 8-10 by Jawaharlal Nehru Planetarium, Bengaluru.