Workshops for College Students
Workshops for College Students
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Previous workshops
Summer Research Bootcamp 2025
We have successfully completed the Summer Research Bootcamp from 1st July 2025- 4th August 2025 in collaboration with RISE Foundation IISER Kolkata with a vision of empowering STEM students with transferable and employable skills. We had two courses to choose from: Animal Behaviour and Quantum Computing. The program is specifically designed for UG and above level students to help them gain field-relevant skills or any professional with interest in the mentioned topics and also provides an internship experience certificate at the completion of the course. The next cohort will be launched in 2026!
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The Art of Cold-emailing Masterclass
We are thrilled to have brought to you this one-day online session just on time when most of you were applying for various internships, project, PhD and postdoctoral positions!
What did this Masterclass Offer:
A cold email is an email you send to a person with whom you have had no prior contact and because of that can be especially daunting. Through this masterclass equipped our participants with the confidence and right methodology needed to approach professors, professionals, or domain experts for an internship, PhD or postdoctoral application or simply, establish a valuable connection through cold emails.
The masterclass had an interactive session with PhD scholar mentor Rohan Sarkar (LinkedIn) digging deep into psychosocial components, and delivering the right strategies, etiquettes and special phrases that make an email stand out, followed by interactive session with Prof. Bhadra along with by QnA from participants.
Key learnings from this Masterclass:
“Netiquette” of an email
Do’s and Don’ts of a successful email
The 5-move strategy of cold email crafting
Interactive live session with QnA
Personalized mentorship & feedback on your cold email drafts
Invited Speaker:
Prof. Anindita Bhadra: She is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at IISER-Kolkata where she works on the behavioural ecology of free-ranging dogs. She is the founding member of Indian National Young Academy of Science, Janaki Ammal National Women Bioscientist awardee and an avid science communicator. She has mentored 100+ students and guided many more to successfully navigate academia. (LinkedIn profile)
In case you are interested to access the first session to understand CV and Resume building basics as well as cheatcodes for LaTeX and other AI based software, let us know via email and we can share with you the recorded lecture.
CV and Resume Building Masterclass
We are happy to have conducted two Masterclasses helping 100+ students across premier science institutes and Universities across India.
What did this Masterclass Offer:
A two day online series to teach the basic concepts of CV building for students in science fields looking to move the academic ladder or transition to industry roles. On the first day, we had interactive session with PhD scholar mentors to guide participants through the various tools and techniques as well as DOs and DONTs of crafting a resume and a CV. On the second day, we had Interactive session with invited speakers from academia and industry to share their insights on what they are looking for in a CV or resume!
In case you are interested to access the first session to understand CV and Resume building basics as well as cheatcodes for LaTeX and other AI based software, let us know via email and we can share with you the recorded lecture.
Career Opportunities in Basic Sciences
A four day online series with specific subjects of Biology, Physics and Chemistry on each day followed by a Panel discussion on fourth day. The session was geared towards various UG, PG, PhD as well as post-PhD level opportunities discussed across the subjects. We also had content delivering niche courses being taught across various institutes and colleges in India as well as industry roles which absorb students from the vraious background. Our participants also learnt what are the transferable skills indutry job roles are looking for in a successful candidate. Finally, we had professors and working professional expert discussing about their experiences and advised on how to navigate through basic sciences, whether students want to stay in academia or shift to industry or corporate roles or vice versa!
Workshops for School Students
Workshops for School Students
Scifinese is a custom curated workshop series for enthusiastic school kids, with a goal to create a productive learning experience to cultivate scientific temperament and critical thinking so as to help children achieve their full potential as they are growing up.
The duration of classes will span over two days for a total of 10-12 hours (5-6 hours each day). These workshops will include interactive sessions with particular emphasis on concept building and learning by doing.
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In this workshop, you will learn basic concepts about money focusing on managing and growing personal finances in a simplified gameplay setting, gaining financial education at the basic level for day-to-day functions. The programme will teach you:
Basic concepts of finance like expenditure, budgeting, assets and liabilities
Traditional and recent financial instruments like FDs, bonds, stocks, ETFs
Available resources to manage your finances efficiently
Informed financial decision-making
Risk assessment
Test what you have learnt in an interactive gameplay setting
In this workshop, you will get a sneak peek on what scientists actually do and also get to be a scientist for a day! You will learn the basic concepts of research by doing them yourself.
The programme will teach you:
The various components of a scientific experiment
To ask relevant questions, do literature survey and formulate hypothesis
To design and conduct fun experiments to test out your hypothesis
To analyse the data collected and validate your hypothesis using statistical data analysis
To write a report to present your results
Relevant online and offline tools like Mendeley, Google Scholar and more
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