Earth Day 05: Everyday for Everybody With the environment under siege, it's more important than ever for conservationists to be attentive and active in their efforts. Earth Day on April 22 provides an opportunity to reinitiate our effort to work for sustainable development for our society, state, nation or planet. This year's Earth Day theme is "Water for Life," . . . . . . . Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Children at Gujarat Science City To attract, encourage and create interest among bright students about the rich bioresources and its importance, Gujarat Council of Science City is organizing a four-week “Vacation Training Programme on Bioresources for School Students” at Gujarat Science City, Ahmedabad from 2nd May to 28th May 2005. The programme has catalyzed and supported by the National Bioresource Development Board (NBDB) of Department of Biotechnology, Govt of India. OUTREACH PROGRAM OF GUJARAT SCIENCE CITY Students were amazed to see the wonderrs of the SKy oBservation inside the inflatable planetorium . Lots of students were linned up to crawl downinside the planetorium. Environment Awareness Fair at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19 - 20th February 2005 The Gujarat Science City participated in a two-days Environment Awareness Camp held at Indroda Nature Park, Gandhinagar during 19-20 February 2005. GEER Foundation organized the district level camp in collaboration with Water and Sanitation Management Organization (WASMO), Gandhinagar. The activities included exhibition by eco-clubs members and the other organizations and institutions, who are working for the cause of environment education and conservation. The camp aimed at creating environmental awareness through students by setting up eco-clubs in schools. It was a part of its main programme for the National Green crops (NGC) programme, being sponsored by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF), Govt of India. In Gujarat, GEER Foundation is working as the nodal agency and is now coordinating 3750 eco-clubs in the state with an around 150 eco-clubs in each of the 25 districts of the State. The Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, Shri M. L. Sharma inaugurated the camp on 19th February 2005. In his inaugural address, Shri Sharma highlighted the importance of environment awareness programme and asked for the student's role in spreading the awareness about environment education and its protection. Earlier, Shri C. N. Pandey, Director, GEER Foundation welcomed the participants, dignitaries and the participating organizations. He informed that the foundation is conducting several nature camps in and around Indroda Nature Park and providing an ideal platform for nature education components. The Gujarat Science City opened its stall by displaying all its programmes and activities on environment and nature education as well as training on bioresources and biodiversity. Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City visited the camp both the days and supervised the activities. He also interacted with the senior officers of the Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat and enlightened about various innovative nature education programmes of the Science City. Among the other organizations, the Centre for Environment Education (CEE), WASMO, Gandhinagar, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat, Gujarat Pollution Control Board, Department of Post are also participated in this two day camp and setup their informative stalls. Many interested school level eco-club members, forest officers and conservators and the local teachers visited Science City stall and shown their interest and desires for the activities on science city as well as nature camps. Several films on nature education and interactive activities were shown to the visitors on LCD screen. Dr. Narottam Sahoo along with the Technician Shri Dharmenda Mauria and student volunteers, Ms. Tarika Patel, Shri Hemant Soni coordinated the activities of the camp. The Science City also put up the inflatable planetarium and arranged shows the students and the general visitors of the camps on sky observation. Shri Pradip Mavadhiya and Devarsh Patel Conducted the planetarium shows. Both the days there were lots of student activities like poster painting, essay writing and skit presentations. The valedictory function was organized on 20th February evening. Shri Arjun Singh, IAS, Secretary, Department of Forests, Govt of Gujarat addressed the participants as Chief Guest and had a high regard for their concerns and activities on environment awareness. He distributed prizes and certificates to the meritorious students. During the function, the Gujarat Science City was awarded a memento as a token of appreciation on its programmes and activities. It was a good experience by participating and interacting with the students and the resource persons working on eco-club projects. It also helped us to identify the active eco-clubs and their coordinators for further training activity at science city during the year 2005-2006. Bhoomi Pujan on 11-Feb-05 Humble beginning: Bhoomi Pujan of Road, Parking and Utility construction work in Science City on 11.02.2005 in the hand of Shri Vagmin Buch, Additional Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Govt of Gujarat in presence of Shri S. D. Vora, Executive Director, Gujarat Science City.
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BARC team designs particle detector
umbai : Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) have played a significant role in designing and developing the world's newest and biggest particle detector for studying nuclear physics which was commissioned recently at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US. This detector has been installed at the "Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider," which has been built at a cost of $ 600 million, a press release issued by the BARC on Wednesday has stated. According to the press release, the BARC team contributed to the PHENIX (pioneering high energy nuclear interaction experiment) detector which forms a part of the collider experiment. The press release said the BARC team made contributions in the field of computer software for detector design and physics simulation while setting up PHENIX. "By way of hardware supply also, the BARC contributed very high precision detector equipment fabricated at its central workshops," it stated. "The professionalism of the BARC contribution to this construction is remarkable and welcome," said PHENIX spokesperson Bill Zaic in a message to the leader of the Indian team S.S.Kapoor, the BARC's director of physics and electronics and instrumentation group. According to the press release, scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have now begun detecting head-on collisions between "gold nuclei" moving at nearly the speed of light in the collider machine. By smashing together sufficiently dense bunches of nuclei of elements like gold with extremely high energies, an interaction energy as large as 30-40 Te V (Terra Electron Volt) is reached. For a fraction of a second, this will result in a temperature which will be one hundred thousand times hotter than the core of the sun, the press release stated. The scientists believe that under such conditions it will recreate the early seconds of the Big Bang. Added the press release: "These detectors have been designed and built by scientific collaborations involving a large number of universities and research institutions not only in the US but worldwide, a nice example of demonstrating that science has no borders ."
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umbai : Scientists from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) have played a significant role in designing and developing the world's newest and biggest particle detector for studying nuclear physics which was commissioned recently at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in the US.