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Ahmedabad: Teen turns teacher, makes science fun

The school helps provide additional lessons to slum students so as to help them improve their performance in school.

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Volunteers Devam, Parva, Aarya among others helped the students in setting up the science fair
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It's a rare sight to watch a 15-year-old teaching Science concepts to Class 10 students. But it has become a routine for teenager Soham Bhatt since September 2017, when he started volunteering for a school run by Manav Gulzar in Behrampura.

The school helps provide additional lessons to slum students so as to help them improve their performance in school. Bhatt, who has been homeschooled for the last two years began teaching Class 10 students Science.

“He plays the tabla and wanted to teach music. But when he approached the school they urged him to teach Science, as they did not have a full-time Science teacher,” said Rajiv Bhatt, Soham’s father.

Soham has since then been teaching the students Science once a week for four hours.

In fact, thanks to the efforts of Soham and other volunteers, the students on Thursday presented a successful Science and Math fair that was attended by over 300 people. The fair saw students of Class 6 to 10 conducting experiments to explain the concepts.

Bhatt can pat his back, as since he and other students have started volunteering at the school, the pass percentage for Science subject in the Class 10 Board exams has improved from 40 per cent to 78 per cent.

“I realised that the problem that the children here faced was that of resources and not lack of talent. They did not have labs and sometimes the teachers were also not that experienced to clear the doubts of every child. They only learned from textbooks and after we introduced learning tools they were able to understand it better,” said Soham.

He and his team also raised funds to buy educational tools to make the teaching more fun.

He has also an interesting observation about his students that some of them are far brighter than those who study in privileged schools.

“I also realised that the kids here value good teaching, unlike the privileged schools, where kids often get bored if a new concept is introduced. The marginal benefit of teaching these kids is much higher too,” said Soham.

He said the Science in Life concept introduced as part of teaching will also help the kids most of whom come from slums to use Science optimally to address their problems.

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