PROPOSAL FOR SETTING UP OF A SCIENCE CLUB IN SCHOOL

Student Name – Varnica NagarSchool Name – Seven Oaks SchoolSchool Address – Garhi Cantt., Dehradun Class – XI A, 2005Name of the proposed club: Modern Magic Club

Objectives:

1. To make all students realize that it is a club for real fun and not a place to

horrify them with equations and complicated words. All we get here is fun

with structured information with repeatable results. It will make them

realize that ‘science’ is just a name of easier way of understanding things.

2. To remove myth that science is for scientists and computers are truth

speaking type writers or fun machines or magic boxes. The club will be

equally enjoyable for students who like science or arts or are curious to

learn just anything they want.

3. To let the student judge that learning science is far cheaper than arts, only

thing to be understood that nothing is useless and the most complex

things consist of basically simple ingredients.

Activities:

Identification of problems: We have been asked to start a science and

computer club in school. Even senior students took it as ‘Hi funda’, ‘Hi cost’ thing,

the contents of which require a genius. Only positive thing they thought of that

they can play games, use e-mail and write letters & application forms.

This situation is directly linked with objective 1. For that we will use

display board of school and local newspaper with some funny drawing

displaying real life examples or toys which can explain complex

processes (learn with fun) to attract readers of all age groups towards fun.

We will direct our activities to make a club considering three age groups

of students, i.e. sub-junior, junior and senior group with parallel

communication.

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Then we require upper layer which we require for knowledge base,

guidance and overall personality development. For that we can contact

school teachers, local scientists, engineers, artists and even mechanics.

If there is time constraint with people of upper layers, senior members of

the club can function as knowledge transporters and facilitators.

Traditional education converts an inventor or an artist into expert. This is

exactly reverse what we really need. Almost all the children love to watch

programs like ‘Junkyard Mechanics’, which state that everything is useful

just by creative thinking.

Using the same theme junkyard scientific toys will be prepared and upper

layers of the club will help in explaining the complex science behind those

toys in simple ways for junior ones. (mic from pencils, cell from lemon,

microscope from fused pencil torch bulb, invisible ink, pin hole camera

and ‘Do It Yourself’ kind of simple things).

At later stage all the members will be requested to prepare and deliver

some small lectures, using multimedia, with scientific toys prepared by

them in front of upper layer people consisting critics, for our total growth.

Since everybody needs appreciation and probably motivation, for that

small scientific fun mela (magic festival?!!) can be arranged. Small

science articles can be published in local newspaper under the guidance

of upper layer and media.

In present day world the costliest thing is information. For that one

multimedia computer with internet and educational computer games for

juniors are required. However slowly one junior science library can also

be built up with individual contribution or donation, if need be.

Skill and talent is never restricted in big cities and school. So once we

learn the art of learning and effective communication, all members of the

club will be requested to visit schools in surrounding villages having poor

resources.

The visiting member will identify their needs, think about the instant

solutions, come back to club, enter the information in data base of the

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computer and discuss it with club members. Efforts will be made to find

different ways by which suitable skills of solving problem can be

generated in the sufferers themselves, using available minimum

resources. It will give them pride and relief and the surrounding areas will

get their own group of problem solvers. It will start a self-healing process.

If the requirements of resources are beyond the capacity of the club, the

requirement of resources along with problem analysis and possible

solutions will be presented before suitable administrative forum using the

upper layer.

Once the surrounding areas are comparatively free of problems, the

children of those areas will be invited to the club, we will help them in

understanding why, how and what we are doing here. We will assist them

in making their own club using minimum local resources and spread out

practical scientific solution in their surrounding.

We will request our teacher to teach us how to evaluate our data base,

our progress, our faults in early stage itself and mid- course correction

whenever required.

In our e-database we will also include local knowledge of villagers and old

wise men. This will be analyzed by the upper layer. This may result into

very cheap natural medicine or a cheap technology even for an advanced

city.

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