SCIENCE APTITITUDE PRESERVATION PROJECT
SCIENCE APTITITUDE PRESERVATION PROJECT
Institute conducts and assists fundamental research in science aspiring towards discoveries and raises budding scientists with dedication and innovativeness to meet this objective through a novel program named Science Aptitude Preservation Project.
Science Aptitude Preservation Project (SAPP)
In this project we campaign door to door and high schools (class VII to XII) to find innovative youths (irrespective of marks obtained) from downtrodden to the elites as indicated by guardians on teachers. Once found we try to preserve their attitude by encouraging them in weekly sessions of hand an experiment and other academic assistance in our several SAPP centres in and around Kolkata and helping them to pursue higher studies in basic sciences in order to join our research projects to become a scientist in future.
Extending Science Aptitude Preservation Project, SAPP
In the last 20 years (since 1990’s) or so with a moderate venture , the institute found its SAPP quite effective. Through this process in the last 20 years or so we have worked with 600 + students from about 15 high schools in and around Kolkata and could groom a few of them as young scientists who are already in the way of being recognized as innovative scientists.
Encouraged by our good record the process of finding true manpower for research through SAPP we now propose to extend our project where we contact 200 high schools to work with 200,000 students and thus expecting at least 10 of them to be groomed as scientists in the next 5 years. As this is a huge task, we propose to collaborate with several NGO’s who are willing to assist us in this project component. This constitutes a large research project and a large portion of the funding is planned to be utilised in it. We are confident that this is the only way to find true scientist and to support fundamental research in basic sciences in India.
India stepped in the area of modern fundamental scientific research fifty years before independence (1897) through the discoveries on wireless transmission of Sir J.C.Bose whereas Sir P.C.Ray another such scientist was his contemporary. In the following fifty years, in the pre- independence era, at least ten more scientists such as Sir C.V.Raman, Ramanujan, Prof. S.N.Bose, Prof. M.N.Sahaand others received international recognition on their scientific work in India and we Indians are proud of them. But during the sixty-five following years of the post- independence era not many such scientist was recognized for their work in India. This indicates lack of importance on innovativeness in the Indian education system.
The Institute requires young person’s studying science intending to become a scientists, for its ongoing projects, such as the COMPASS collaboration at CERN Geneva Switzerland.
Selected persons will be trained in performing innovative science experiments and finally to collaborate at CERN
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