Educational Activities

30th April’2010: Inter Nursery School Elocution Contest:

Kalimpong Science Centre had organized Inter Nursery School Elocution Contest’ 2010 jointly with Kalimpong Nursery School Welfare Association at Kalimpong Science Centre. The Chief Guest was Mr. Samsher Ali, Food & Supply Officer, Kalimpong. In this competition 25 nursery schools had participated. All the participants had awarded with “Certificate of Honor” and winning trophy to those who stood in 1st, 2nd and 3rd Position.

6th March’2010 to 14th March’2010: Art Exhibition

Kalimpong Science Centre had organized “Art Exhibition: …bringing the color hills under one roof! with the motive to give the platform to artists with the display of their painting so that peoples could know their talent. In this art exhibition total 14 artists from Kalimpong Sub-Division had participated. The entire artist presented “Certificate of Honour” by the Centre. The Chief Guest of the inaugural inaugural day was Mr. Kumar Bhusal, WBCS (Exe), Secretary, Kalimpong Branch Secretariat, DGHC-Kalimpong.

Name of the artists who exhibited their painting were:

1. P. K. Rai (Mungpoo)
2. Karan Rarna Pradhan (Kalimpong)
3. Tika Pradhan (Kalimpong)
4. Richard Lepach (Kalimpong)
5. Pirem (Kalimpong)
6. Richard G. Lepach (Kalimpong)
7. Tulsha Basore (Kalimpong)
8. Kiden Bhutia (Kalimpong)
9. Anila Chemjong (Kalimpong)
10. Dharma (Kalimpong)
11. Biswajit Das (Kalimpong)
12. Ramesh Karal (Kalimpong)
13. Asheem Sagar (Kalimpong)
14. Ratan (Kalimpong)
15. Amir Sundas (Dooars)
16. Deven Dewan (Dooars) 

5th June’2010: World Environment Day:

On this day student from R. K. S. P. Boys’ Higher Secondary School, Darjeeling participated in tree plantation in Deolo area and students planted more than 300 trees with 5 verities. Total 75 students with the teachers of the same school participated in this plantation activity. Dr. B. B. Gurung, Curator, Kalimpong Science Centre delivered lecture on the topic of “Global Climate Change and its Impact”.

On the same day staff of Kalimpong Science Centre (Mr. Hemanta Thapa, Education Assistant, Antim Pradhan, Fitter, Benay Thapa, Electrician and simon Chamling, Electronic Technician) were felicitated by the staff of Kalimpong Science Centre who went to on-job training for one month (March’2010) at National Council of Science Museums (Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India), Kolkata and Birla Industrial and Technological Museums, Kolkata.

9th March’2010:Inter School Sit & Draw Competition

On 9^th March’2010 Kalimpong Science Centre had organized inter school sit & draw competition and in this completion total five schools had participated with 45 students and all the participating students awarded with “Certificate of Participation” and the students who stood in 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd positions had been awarded with Certificate, trophy and science books.

 

10th March’2010 to 13th March’2010: Workshop on Fine Art:

This work shop was done with a motive to save the practice and to preserve the culture of art in the hills. There are many skilled artists in the hills but due to the modern day technology the skilled artist are at a drawback to compete them. Hence to keep this trend alive this workshop on fine art was held. In this workshop renowned artist of Kalimpong as well as nearby areas had participated and given their technical help to those interested art learners from different school who has come for the work shop. The taught how to draw and paint in different materials like paper and canvas.

Felicitation Program:

Felicitated to Mr. I. B. Subba, renowned artist from Kalimpong Sub-Division, Kalimpong for his outstanding contribution in the field of fine art on 14^th March’2010.

25th Sept’2010: Spell Bee Competition:

In this competition students from 6 schools from Kalimpong had participated. The total number of participants in the competition were 39 out of which the winners were as follows:

1^st – Master Tshering Penzor, Rock Vale Academy, Kalimpong

2^nd – Miss Taramit Lepcha, St. Philomena’s School, Kalimpong

3^rd – Master Bhaskar Roy, Rock Vale Academy, Kalimpong

4^th – Miss Dipti Thapa, St. Philomena’s School, Kalimpong

5^th – Master Sanditya Manna, Rock vale Academy, Kalimpong

 

26th Sept’2010: Sit & Draw Contest:

In this competition students from 13 schools from Kalimpong had participated. The competition was divided in groups according to their class. The total number of participants in the competition was 169 out of which the winners were as follows:

Group I

1^st – Miss Nirjala Khanal, Bright life Academy, Kalimpong

2^nd – Master Youwraj Lepcha , Brighten Academy, Kalimpong

3^rd – Miss Anusha Bhandari, Bright life Academy, Kalimpong

4^th – Master Avhinash Bhusal, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

5^th – Master Nima Rinchen Tamang, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

Group II

1^st – Master Sapan Gurung, Grace Academy, Kalimpong

2^nd – Master Sanjivan Jordan Watson, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

3^rd – Master Dewakar Karki, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

4^th – Miss Sriya Rai, Bright life Academy, Kalimpong

5^th – Miss Swastika Rai, Bright life Academy, Kalimpong

Group III

1^st – Miss Simran Subba, Saptashree Gyanpeeth, Kalimpong

2^nd – Master Lalit Gupta, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

3^rd – Miss Diya Lama, Rock Vale Academy, Kalimpong

4^th – Miss Sabita Biswakarma, St. Philomena’s School, Kalimpong

5^th – Miss Pramila Bhujel, St. Philomena’s School, Kalimpong

 

28th Sept’2010: Essay Competition:

In this competition students from 8 schools in Kalimpong had participated. The competition was divided in groups according to their class. The total number of participants in the competition was 115 out of which the winners were as follows:

Group I

1^st – Master Anish Raj Pradhan, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

2^nd – Miss Suveksha Rai, Saptashree Gyanpeeth, Kalimpong

3^rd – Miss Sita Sharma, Ramlal Dahal High School, Kalimpong

4^th – Miss Susmita Pradhan, Government high School, Kalimpong

5^th – Miss Margarita Mangrati (St. Philomena’s School)

 

Group II

1^st – Miss Dikila Bhutia, St. Philomena’s School, Kalimpong

2^nd – Master Sanjay Rai, Government high School, Kalimpong

3^rd – Master Siddhant Subba, St. Augustine School, Kalimpong

4^th – Miss Moon Barman, Saptashree Gyanpeeth, Kalimpong

5^th – Miss Priya Basur, Pranami Balika Vidhya Mandir, Kalimpong

 

Second Anniversary Program of Kalimpong Science Centre:

Kalimpong Science Centre was inaugurated on 2^nd October’2008 and therefore, Kalimpong Science Centre celebrated its 2^nd Anniversary on 2^nd October’2010. The Chief Guest of the day was Mr. S. Sada, WBCS, Secretary, Dept. of Finance-DGHC and the Guest of Honour was: Mr. Sangay Dorjee Bhutia, W.B.A. & A.S, Finance Officer-DGHC and Mr. Padam Singh Darnal, W.B.A. & A.S., Council Controlling Finance Officer-DGHC.On this occasion Centre had organized Inter College Seminar Contest with power point presentation where three colleges from Darjeeling district had participated. The topic for the seminar was “Global Warming and its impact in Climate Change”.

The name of the participating colleges was:

1.      Ghoom Jorebunglo Degree College, Darjeeling

2.      Cluny Womens’ College, Kalimpong

3.      St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling

4.      Darjeeling Govt. College, Darjeeling

In this contest, the winning participants was:

1^st – Master Prasanna Subba, Ghoom Jorebunglo Degree College, Darjeeling

2^nd - Master Prashant Lohagun, St. Josephs College, Darjeeling

3^rd – Master Bishal Rai, Ghoom Jorebunglow Degree College, Darjeeling

On the occasion of Second Anniversary the centre felicitated to Mr. Bhakta Pariyar, renowned artist from Kalimpong sub-division for his outstanding contributions in the field of fine art.

On the occasion of 2^nd Anniversary, students from “Geeti Nrityam”, a Dance Institute, Kalimpong performed their “Nritya (Classical dance)” on the stage and Kalimpong Science Centre also presented “Certificate of Participation” to all the participants for their lovely performance and co-operation and the students the students were trained by Mrs. Subarna Pradhan, head of “Geeti Nrityam”, Dance Institute, Primtam Road, Kalimpong for this stage programme.  

5th Dec’ 2010: Popular Lecture:

As directed by the National Council of Science Museum (Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India), Centre had organized a popular lecture. A renowned scientist from Iowa State University, Ames, U. S. A. Prof. Eve Syrkin Wurtele had come to present her presentation on “Plants: Turning Air to Oil”. The students from high school/Colleges here at Kalimpong had attended the seminar. The seminar proved to be very informative for the youngsters who had gathered here for the seminar.

All the programs given above were conducted by the technical team of Kalimpong Science Centre headed by the Curator of Kalimpong Science Centre.