Team:REC-CHENNAI/Public Engagement
Human Practices: Education and Public Engagement Special Prize
As a team, we believe that science should reach all communities of society in an engaging way. Consequently, we customized our Human Practices activities to connect with different communities.
Education
In collaboration with Cambrionics Life Sciences, we designed a training module including hands-on experiments and biology-based takeaway game board for school students. This will be conveyed to a lot more schools in future. On Engineer’s Day, we educated nearly 300 school students on the handling of basic lab instruments. We presented our project at a National Conference attended by undergrad students.
Public Engagement
We connected with a huge crowd of the general public at Elliot’s beach to clear taboos surrounding the field. In an event at the Natesan park, we engaged the kids with science-based activities. We organized a workshop in which different levels of safety was discussed through thought-provoking activities. All activities were followed by survey forms tailored to assess their impact.