Year 2018 has been full of achievements for Science City. Around 1.32 lakh students of govt. schools from all over Punjab and 15000 students from Chandigarh visited the Science City. Besides, Haryana School Education Department also organized the visits of more than 1000 students of govt. schools. 44 lakh visitors so far visited science City ever since its opening to public on March 20, 2005. This was expressed by Dr. Neelima Jearth, Director General Science City in this press release. Further she said, Robotic Dinosaur gallery has been set up and moving Dinosaur have been a star attraction. Visitors have been enjoying real fun on seeing Dinosaurs with their eyes blinking, opening and closing movement of mouth with emulating sound, movement of front claws, swaying of tail and breathing movement of stomach. Life size model of Tyrannosaurus (T Rex) Stegosaurus, Mamenchisaurus, Triceratops and Baryonyx has been setup in this gallery. Five scientific informative kiosks based on Metallurgy, Gemology, Geology, Numismatic and Soil Science has been setup. These exhibits make students and general public aware about various types of metals and alloys, physical properties of different gems, various types of rocks and minerals, different kinds of coins of pre and post-independence period as well as various types of soils prevailing in the country. I-MAX film “EVEREST” is re-launched in the space theater on the demand of visitors. The film depicts the beauty of Himalayas as well as describes the challenges faced by mountaineers. She added.Mobile Science Exhibition bus is being run to every nook and corner of Punjab in order to bring Science at their door steps. More than 50 thousand students got opportunity to see the Mini Science gallery. Subsequently, 50 Genetic Literacy clubs have been set up under the Genetic Literacy programme. Talking about the Innovation Hub she said that, project is running successfully and achieving its objective to develop culture of innovation and creativity amongst students by engaging young minds in various Scientific activities. Under this programme more than 30 workshops in various fields of Science & Technology were organized and around 500 students have been enrolled as members of Innovation Hub .
Up Coming:
Region‘s first 5-D theatre is to be set up in Science City in the next year.Project entitle “Women Technology Park” is planned through setup which is under process. The objective of project is to motivate women to be an entrepreneur as well as make them self reliant.Under the skill development mission Punjab three short term courses Domestic electric instrument repairer, Electronics and Arc Gass welding will be started very soon.These are free courses for kapurthala domicile to enable youth to take up industry-relevant skill training that will help them in securing a better livelihood. A project proposal related to setting up of mathematics gallery has been submitted to the Govt.of India. This is to be considered as first Mathematic Gallery in the region. The objective is to present mathematic in an easy way to understand .