Mumbai : Nehru Planetarium of Nehru Centre is announcing a new laboratory facility for the school students of 8th to 10th standards. Students can get hands on experience in doing the practical exercises given in their text books.
In order to give individual attention to every child only 20 students per session would be given entry. Any student who is interested in learning to do science experiments with his or her own hands is most welcome. The admission would be given on the first come first serve basis.
Presently the topics covered are electricity and magnetism, optics and astronomy. Other topics such as mechanics, mathematics, biology etc. would be added in due course of time.
As a special summer programme each topic would be covered in five days (from Tuesday to Saturday) and each session would last for about two and a half hours.
There will be two sessions per day –
from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Marathi
and 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in English
The programme is FREE.
The schedule will be as follows:
Tue. Apr 25th to Sat. Apr 29th – Electricity and Magnetism
Tue.May 2nd to Sat. May 6th – Optics
Tue. May 9thto Sat. May 13th - Astronomy
Tue. May 16th to Sat. May 20th– Electricity and Magnetism
Tue.May 23rd to Sat. May 27th – Optics
Tue. May 30thto Sat. Jun 3rd - Astronomy
Venue: Science Lab, Nehru Planetarium Basement
Interested students may contact,
Mr. Sanjay R. Dalvi, Nehru Planetarium, Dr. Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai (Tel: 24924133).
