The fortnight long ‘Young Student Scientist Programme’ supported by the Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology now in progress at the Kandaswami Kandar’s College, Velur, enabled in kindling the quest for scientific temper in the young minds. About 100 students of Class X, including girls, drawn from different schools in Salem and Namakkal districts, are attending the programme.
P. K. Baskaran, Regional Joint Director of Collegiate Education, inaugurated the event, in the presence of R. Arul, Principal of the K. K. College. M. Krishnan, Head of the Department of Environment Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, in his keynote address explained the recombinant DNA technology and production of human insulin hormone.
Experts from different fields addressed the students on different topics on different days. With natural calamities playing a disastrous world over, a session on ‘disaster management’ drew the attention of the students. The students were taken to Tamil Nadu Newsprint Papers Limited, Kakithapuram, Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University in Coimbatore.
