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26^th State Level Children’s Science Congress -2018 concludes at CSIR-CSIO

National Tele24 News 

Chandigarh

The three days, 26^th State Level Children’s Science Congress -2018 for Punjab concluded today at Indo-Swiss Training Centre, CSIR-CSIO, Chandigarh. This congress was organized by Punjab State Council for Science & Technology (PSCST) in association with CSIR-CSIO , Chandigarh. Around 500 students and teachers from all over Punjab attended the event. During the congress, 131 projects were presented by children of 10-17 years of age on the focal theme of the congress “Science Technology and Innovation for a Clean Green and Healthy Nation”.   PSCST as nodal agency for Punjab has been organizing this annual science popularization event for the past 26 years to inculcate scientific temperament amongst children. The event was catalysed and supported by NCSTC, National Council for Science and Technology Communication, DST, GOI.

On the concluding day, result was announced and 16 projects were selected to represent the state at the national level CSC to be held at Bhubaneshwar from 27-31 Dec. 2018. The first prize in senior category was won by Gurber Singh and Roopanshi from BCM Arya School Ludhiana who presented their project on  ‘cultivating mushrooms from stubble’. In Junior category, the first prize was won by Krishika and Yatish from Bhavan’s school, Amritsar. They prepared a project on ‘biogas production’. prize winners were from Ludhiana, Moga, PathankotThe prizes were given to the winners by Dr. Jatinder Kaur Arora, Executive Director of PSCST, Dr. R.K. Sinha, Director, CSIO, Mr. Pawan Kumar, DST, Dr. N.S. Jassal, Principal, ISTC, Dr. Pooja Sharma, CSIO and Dr. K.S. Bath, PSCST.  The basic Idea of the Event is to promote innovation and ideas arising in the young minds of the nation. During the event, activity corners on science and mathematics were also set up to enthuse the participants about science and mathematics. List of winners at State Level CSC-2018:

		JUNIOR GROUP
S.No	Team Name	School	District	Position
1	Krishika and Yatish	Bhawan SL Public School,Amritsar	Amritsar	First
2	Nitin and Vilakshan Joshi	G.S.S.S, Gurdaspur	Gurdaspur	Second
3	Nikhil Sharma and  Rishi Rajput	Army public school, Kandori	Pathankot	Third
4	Kamaljeet  kaur  and  Sonu	Govt. High School ,Saifuwala	Moga	Fourth
5	Deepak Sharma  and  Bhoomi sharma	ST,Farid International School, Freozpur	Freozpur	Fifth
6	Ridhi prasad  and Tez pratap	Doon International School , Mohali	Mohali	Sixth
7	Aakriti sharda  and  Amrit pal singh	B.C.M Arya Model Sec.School, Ludhiana	Ludhiana	Seventh
8	Luxmi pooja and  Khushpreet bawa	Tagore Model High School, Dhuri	Sangrur	Eighth

		SENIOR  GROUP
S.No	Team Name	School	District	Position
1	Gurbir singh and roopanshi juneja	B.C.M Arya Model Sec.School, Ludhiana	Ludhiana	First
2	vanshika and tanisha	Bhawan SL Public School,Amritsar	Amritsar	Second
3	akansha ghulati and vaishnavi harjai	DAV public School	Ludhiana	Third
4	navreet gill and simran	Sant baba sewa singh khalsa model school	Ropar	Fourth
5	kriti jain and adamyaveer jain	BMPS SAS nagar	S B S Nagar	Fifth
6	rumit and arshdeep kaur	sri hemkunt sr. sec. school	Moga	Sixth
7	jasmeen kaur And sargam dhiman	SD international public school	Ropar	Seventh
8	jhanvi and sakshi	himshikha high school,mamoon	Panthankot	Eighth