Council of Scientific and Industrial Research-Centre forCellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabadkicked off its 7 Young Innovators’ Program (YIP). More than 200 studentsapplied for it out of that around 25 selected students of 8-10 grade gotselected to participate in the program. YIP is an initiative to familiarizestudents with research methodologies and CCMB’s focus areas in life sciences.The students selected this year will spend two weeks, from Dec 31, 2019 to Jan13, 2020 at CCMB indulging in experiments and other activities that hones one’sobservational and analytical skills, interactive sessions with scientists andunderstanding different kinds of opportunities for researchers – from academiato entrepreneurship.

 “Indiais a country with the most number of youths. Given the right exposure andtraining, we aim to develop scientists and innovators who want to go beyond theknown as well as solve India-centric problems” said Dr Rakesh Mishra, Director,CCMB.

In the kick off program, Dr V M Tiwari, Director, CSIR-NationalGeophysical Research Institute, Hyderabaddelivered a lecture on sustaining water availability and inspired attendees totake urgent action on water conservation programs.

During this program the participants interacted with activescientists at CCMB, and gave a hands-on experience on research. The programgives children an opportunity for close interaction with the scientists andalso gains first-hand experience of research work.

The students are selected in two stages for this program. In thefirst step entries of students were called from various schools. Name of notmore than two students were called from various schools for this, school mayuse any matrix of selection to select students. As a rule students who haveparticipated last year are not allowed to participate this year.

The student have to undergo a screening test with multiplechoice questions based on which only a few students were selected for thetwo-week program. The test to choose the YIP 2020 participants this year wasconducted on Dec 26, 2019 at the CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technologyauditorium.

This year YIP 2019 held at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),Kharagpur from November 8 to10, 2019. There were 100 finalists from across Asia who participated in the grand finale. Thisinternational science and technology competition witnessed a participation ofclose to 2500 students in classes VIII-X in the previous rounds from an initialoutreach of more than 4500 schools globally. Apart from various regions in India, students from Singapore,Indonesia, Malaysia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait participated in the event.

 (India ScienceWire)

 

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