Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Muktangan Science Exploratory is just the right place to give wings to your child’s imagination and help him/her discover things.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s Muktangan Science Exploratory is just the right place to give wings to your child’s imagination and help him/her discover things. After all, it was started with the sole aim of taking students on the path of exploration and on an adventure of discovery.
Director Ramesh Joshi says, “The science exploratory was founded by former vice chancellor of the University of Pune, VG Bhide.” The idea was to motivate children to take up pure sciences and to inculcate a scientific attitude in them.
Joshi says that, in short, the exploratory aims at helping students to learn how to learn, how to do and how to live. “Here we teach students environmental science and this is different from what they learn in schools. We have designed various activities for them and students from standard V to X participate in this activity,” he said.
The students can join individually or in groups or the schools can contact us to participate in the various activities, informs Joshi.
“We take students on one-day nature trails. We visit the science and research institutes, industries and many such places,” he said.
The students are also taught how to make their own Ganesh idols during Ganeshotsav and lanterns during Diwali. Students are even taught geometry through different shapes that they make, he said.
Students are encouraged to celebrate different types of days with interesting activities to supplement them. “We celebrate some 16 different days that include National Science Day, National Technology Day, World Environment Day, World Meteorology Day and many others,” he added.
They have designed a mathematical laboratory which again is a novel concept as it helps students to relate with mathematics easily. Going a step further, the exploratory also reaches out to teachers by conducting training sessions for them.
And when it comes to students from rural areas, special sessions are arranged for them. “Hearing impaired students and slum children too can also participate in the courses,” said Joshi.
The exploratory has the financial backing of Tata Trust and Persistent Systems Limited. The annual membership fee is Rs2,500. “We give scholarships to those students who can’t afford the fees,” says Joshi. The exploratory is open all six days in a week from 10 am to 5 pm.
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