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SHUBHANGI SHIFA
Ranchi, March 23: A two-day mentorship workshop ended at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra on Wednesday. Notably, the event was organized by the National Institute of Innovation, India to carve out models of 8 child scientists selected from different districts of Jharkhand.
The second day of the event saw several innovative models presented by the students. These included a stair climbing stretcher with shock absorber and foldable chair by Tejas Kumar of Sri Ramakrisna Sharda Ashram; Potato Planting machine by Nirali Kujur; Fuel Efficient Roti Sieve by Afreen Parveen; Improved multifunctional eyeglass with a dual removable lens by Shubham Saurabh; Rover which prepares the soil for agriculture by Samaira Surbhi, etc.
Dr. Joyjeet Ghosh, H.O.D. of the Production Engineering Department then congratulated the participants and encouraged them to keep moving forward and attain greater heights and to always reach out if they needed any further help, emphasizing that they would be more than willing to help them, before starting off with his technical session.
The technical interactive session with Dr. Rajeev Kumar, Associate Professor from Mechanical engineering, Unnat Bharat Abhiyan Institute Coordinator, and DST GOV taught people to convert organic waste to power. He has been in the teaching and research profession for the past 23 years. He congratulated all the participants as the First order developers to change the society and urged them to bring about a change and stressed that change can start at an early age from 12-13 as minds are young and receptive to new ideas.
Dr. Vimal Kumar Singh Yadav talked about the processes to fabricate electronic devices. He first gave some background about the industrial revolution. He pointed out how electronic appliances are widely in use and how everything around is electrical in nature. He showed how electricity and magnetism are inter-connected. The effort to transmit everything wirelessly led to the production of many such devices such as bipolar junction transistors which utilizes CMOS technology. Thousands and millions of transistors can be integrated on a chip which further led to computer systems coming into existence.
The session then moved towards appreciating the students and teachers for their hard work and efforts with the memento distribution to all the students who had come forth with their innovative ideas and projects, as well as to their guiding mentors and the entire organizing committee as well who guided the students throughout.
The session then commenced to another exciting part of the entire programme, which was the lab visit at 2:30 P.M. in order for the students to experience the working methodology of the theoretical concepts that they had learnt after the lunch break. The students were taken to the production lab wherein they could observe the basics of industrial production.
Registrar Col Sukhpal Singh Khetarpal, Dr. C Jagannathan, Dr. Satish Kumar, Dr. Sanat Mukherjee, Dr. Narendra Yadav, Dr. Jaijit Ghosh, Dr. Rajiv Kumar etc. were present on the occasion.
