Science CLUB

Promoting and popularising science is one of my passions.

I am the founder and president of PRAYAS: Progressive Regional Association of Youth for Advancement of Sciences. Founded in September 2021, PRAYAS is a community of enthusiastic students, researchers and academicians with a passion for the promotion of science among people belonging to different age groups, gender, and geographical, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. PRAYAS provides a platform for the manifestation of scientific aptitude while indulging in healthy competitions and other scientific activities. The association brings together students, teachers, college and university lecturers, professors, scientists and researchers from the industry for organizing science promotion activities. I am also an active member of Vibha Punjab-VPP and an NGO called Education Planet Society. We frequently visit various educational institutes to promote science among young children, especially females and organise seminars to take science as a career option.

At Perimeter, I along side the science outreach team at Perimeter, initiated a science communication training program for Graduate students and Post Docs. At GNDU I mentored a Science Club called SciRox which had over 200 student members from various colleges and universities. The club aimed to exchange scientific wisdom with the masses, and also serves as a platform for the members to experiment, grow and prosper by collaborating with eminent scientific societies. In a bid to popularise and promote science among the general public and school students, the club runs a science exhibition bus “Vigyan Safari” for young children where they meet, brainstorm and design working projects, and models. This venture specifically aims to intrigue young minds by performing live scientific experiments in government schools falling under the jurisdiction of Amritsar. The club has also started “Project Tunneling”. In this project, students/academicians/teachers make science experiment videos in regional language. The videos are put on SciRox YouTube channel every week. With this idea in mind the club has also initiated an Interdisciplinary Science Education Journal-Inertia. The journal aims to publish science articles for non-experts and school students so as to promote scientific temperament among people belonging to different age groups, background and demographics. Two issues of the science journal have been released so far. In addition to we have also organised various other events such as essay/article writing and reading competitions; state level quiz competition; webinars for empowering school children to make wise food choices; astrobiology workshops, conferences on spectroscopy and astronomy and many other webinars/events. The details of the club can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/scirox-gndu

Science Week Festival 2022: https://sites.google.com/view/science-week-festival/home