{"id":15376,"date":"2020-12-31T22:18:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spsti.org\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2020-12-31T22:18:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T16:48:02","slug":"ten-reasons-why-2020-was-another-great-year-for-spsti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urben.in\/tccapp\/ten-reasons-why-2020-was-another-great-year-for-spsti\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten reasons why 2020 was another great year for SPSTI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Founded in the year 2009 by thirty-seven leading scientists, academicians and administrators, Society for Promotion of Science & Technology has taken many flagship initiatives to take science to the people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lectures, workshops, quiz competitions, seminars, panel discussions, celebrating earth day, science day, mathematics day, biodiversity day are regular activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The notorious Coronavirus knocked India in the month of February 2020. The SPSTI was the first to hold a session to aware people about COVID-19 & its effects on March 04, 2020 by engaging doctors from PGIMER, Chandigarh followed by many such activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the year 2020, SPSTI has expanded its wings to pan India by conducting a number of online activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten reasons why 2020 was another great year for SPSTI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  1. In an online poster-making and essay writing competition on “COVID-19 Pandemic – Problems & Solutions”<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, more than 2500 students from seventeen states of India participated with great enthusiasm.<\/li>
  2. On World Environment Day 2020, 500 students participated in “Plant-a-Tree Campaign”<\/a><\/strong><\/em> contributing to the theme 2020 – Celebrate Biodiversity<\/em>.<\/li>
  3. The world witnessed the rare celestial event on June 21, 2020 – The Annular Solar Eclipse.<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/strong><\/em>SPSTI covered live telecast of the event from the line of maximum eclipse. Eminent scientists & professors explained scientific facts about the eclipses to thousands of audience.<\/li>
  4. SPSTI’s flagship activity Mobile Science Laboratory – Circus of Science<\/a><\/strong><\/em> <\/a>visited 43 villages in districts Kurukshetra and Nuh (Mewat) to create awareness about the COVID-19, motivating people to use masks and social distancing etc. Moreover, the laboratory initiated its new phase in district Yamunanagar of Haryana for the next two years.<\/li>
  5. The lecture series on Nobel Prizes 2020<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>organized and seven webinars conducted on the contributions – the Nobel Laureates have made towards the world.<\/li>
  6. The Science Playground<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, <\/strong><\/em>in virtual mode, was launched. The unique idea is to involve students to interact with eminent scientists from their laboratories through online platforms.<\/li>
  7. The Panel Discussion<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on National Education Policy 2020 invited the policy makers and all the stake holders on one platform.<\/li>
  8. Celebrated National Mathematics Day 2020<\/a><\/em><\/strong> <\/a>by launching a series of activities in December 22, 2020.<\/li>
  9. Collaborated with Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to initiate the activities in Punjab region.<\/li>
  10. First e-Newslette<\/a><\/em><\/strong>r<\/a> of the SPSTI is launched. Subscribe to our mailing list.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    SPSTI wishes all its members, resource persons, beneficiaries and supporters a very Happy New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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