Educational Activities

6th April-9th April’2011: Special Adventure Course for Four Days:

Kalimpong Science Centre had organizing a Special Adventure Course for Four Days in collaboration with OFF ROAD/H.M.I.-Darjeeling. On the same occasion the Centre had organized a Night Sky Observation Program in order to develop interest towards astronomy.

The school participated in this course were:

                        i.            Kumudini Higher Secondary School, Kalimpong
        ii.            St. Augustine School. Kalimpong,
       iii.            Mount Carmel School, Kalimpong
       iv.            Bethany School, Chibo Busty, Kalimpong

In this four days adventure course total 35 students had participated.

All the participants awarded with certificate of participation.

On the closing ceremony i.e. on 9^th May’2011, the Chief Guest of the day was Dr. Harka Bahadur Chhetri, MLA-15^th Assembly Election (West Bengal), Kalimpong Sub-Division, Dist. Darjeeling and Guest of Honour was Suva Pradhan, Kalimpong.

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Kalimpong Science Centre had celebrated World environment day on 5th June 2011. The program schedule was as follows:

1. The Centre had invited students from schools who fall under the “Kalimpong Nursery School Welfare Association” to participate in the rally on 5th June 2011. The rally started from Kalimpong Town Hall up to 10th mile Kalimpong and than they were taken to Kalimpong Science Centre. The students during the rally displayed environmental awareness to the public.

2. The students after reaching the Centre did plantation of Saplings of various kinds of trees. They planted about 200 saplings in the vacant area of Kalimpong Science Centre.

3. After the plantation was over the Centre had organized a “Painting Competition” for the students who had come there. Students from Class I- V had participated in the contest. There were around 150 students from 17 schools to participate. The theme given to them was “Tree”.

4. As soon as the competition was over the students were taken to the auditorium where the students were shown movie on Environmental Awareness.

5. Hence the closing of the day’s program was conducted too. Mr. Preeven Rai, Principal of St. Peters School delivered a lecture related to environmental awareness. Similarly Dr. B. B. Gurung, Curator of Kalimpong Science Centre also delivered a lecture to the students regarding “Environment Day” and its importance. He also made the students aware that simple planting trees does not solve the problem but by protecting of existing plant and the newly planted trees is must to save our earth. He also touched the matter related to Global Warming and its impact. He also explain source of carbon dioxide, methane, CFC, oxide of nitrogen etc which has vital role in increasing the global temperature.

The result of the Painting Competition that was organized on 5th June 2011 is as follows:

Class I – Arpita Thapa: 1st of Buds Nursery School.

Class II – Nikita Pradhan: 1st of Buds Nursery School.

Class III – Deepti Labar: 1st of Bethany School.

Class IV – Kalpana Chettri: 1st of St. Peters School.

Class V – Nilesh Thapa: 1st of Spring Born Academy.

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Training on Organic Mushroom Cultivation: 17th -18th June’2011 (VIEW IMAGES)

Two days training program on “Organic Mushroom Cultivation” was organized by Kalimpong Science Centre from 17th till 18th of June 2011. Instructors from Ghoom, Darjeeling Shri Wangchu Sherpa, Druk Mushroom Farm and Mrs. Malati Sherpa, Druk Mushroom Farm trained the house wives, self help group and local peoples.

There were total 25 participants from different area of Kalimpong for the above said program.

Mr. Sherpa and Mrs. Sherpa gave the trainees all the required information for the cultivation of Oyster Mushroom. They laid emphasis on the following matter:

a.      Construction of the farm house.
b.      How to prepare the straw.
c.      How to use the seeds during planting.
d.      What are the measures they have to follow during making the mushroom, cylinder?
e.      How the cylinder prepared should be kept.
f.       How to harvest the mushroom.
g.      Preventive measures to be taken against diseases and infection.

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23rd Sept’ 2011: 3rd Pre-Anniversary Programme of Kalimpong Science Centre - (VIEW IMAGES)*

Kalimpong Science Centre had organized a Sit and Draw Competition and Essay Writing Competition for students of Darjeeling district. This competition was held keeping in mind the 3rd Anniversary of Kalimpong Science Centre which will be celebrated on 2nd of October’2011.

The competition begun with a small condolence meeting in memory of the victims of the earthquake that had struck Darjeeling District and Sikkim 18th September’ 2011. The teachers and the students lit candles praying for those soles that had lost their lives in the natural calamities.

The Sit and Draw Competition was organized for students of different levels which are as follows:

Nursery level where 9 schools had participated, there were 85 participants for the same and the theme was “Butterfly”

Primary level where 4 schools had participated, there were 19 participants for the same and theme was “My School Bag”

Open level where 6 schools had participated, there were 109 participants for the same and topic was “House Damaged by Earthquake and Landslide”

An Essay Competition was also held for students of classes XI and XII where 5 schools had participated and 31 students had participated. The topic for the essay was “I Felt the Tremor”.

In this program there were total 244 students from 20 schools:
 

Sl. No	Name of the School
01	Angel’s Academy
02	Good Will Academy
03	Brighten Academy
04	St. Peters Schools
05	Grace Academy
06	St Mary’s School
07	St. Anthony’s School
08.	Bright Life Academy
09	Prashanti Academy
10	Ram lal Dahal
11	Jubilee primary School
12	Champamaya
13	Balyuwa Primary School
14	Government High School
15	Saptashree Gyanpeeth
16	St. Augustines School
17	St. George High School
18	Rock vale Academy
19	St. josephs Convent
20	Kumidini Homes

Name of the winner in Sit & Draw Competition are as follows:
 

Sl.No	Name of Student	Name of School	Rank	class
1	Rinesh Limbu	champamaya J.B. School	1st	Primary
2	Priskila subba	Jublee Primary School	2nd	Primary
3	Sagar Chettri	champamaya J.B. School	3rd	Primary
4	Thomas Nazary	Jublee Primary School	1st	Primary
5	Raja Ram Rai	champamaya J.B. School	2nd	Primary
6	Sanjay Rai	Ramlal Dahal Primary School	3rd	Primary
7	Sanjana Gupta	Prashanti Academy	1st	I
8	Jayant Rai	Brighten Academy	2nd	I
9	Sneha Panchakoti	Angel Academy	3rd	I
10	Prashanti Biswakarma	Prashanti Academy	1st	II
11	Tryyphena Subba	Goodwill Academy	2nd	II
12	Tenzing Pema	Goodwill Academy	3rd	II
13	Sapan Gurung	Grace Academy	1st	III
14	Sonalika Rai	St. Mayr's School	2nd	III
15	Bikash Chettri	Bright Life Academy	3rd	III
16	manish Tamang	St. Peter's School	1st	IV
17	Abhishek basur	Prashanti Academy	2nd	IV
18	Alex lepcha	Grace Academy	3rd	IV
19	Samarpan pradhan	St. Augustine School	1st	VI
20	Joy Das	S.G.P.	2nd	VI
21	Mehr Rani	St. Joseph's Convent	3rd	VI
22	Missile gurung	St. Grorge's High School	1st	VII
23	Nima Sherpa	Govt. High School	2nd	VII
24	paritosha Joshy	St. Joseph's Convent	3rd	VII
25	Umme Summaiya Faisal	St. Joseph's Convent	1st	VIII
26	Lalit Rai	Govt. High School	2nd	VIII
27	Thendup Tashi Bhutia	St. Augustine School	3rd	VIII
28	Md. Moin	Rockvale Academy	1st	IX
29	Piyathida Sutjkunkarn	St. Joseph's Convent	2nd	IX
30	Rakesh Sarki	Govt. High School	3rd	IX
31	Maneer Rajkarnikar	Rockvale Academy	1st	X
32	Mousam Tamang	Govt. High School	2nd	X
33	Nare Tamang	Ramlal Dahal High School	3rd	X
Sl.No	Name of Student	Name of School	Rank	class
1	Pius Roshan Rasaily	St. George's H. S. School	1st	XI
2	Kushal Rai	St. George's H. S. School	2nd	XI
3	Sachin Tirwa	Kumini Homes	3rd	XI
1	Saurav Gupta	Rockvale Academy	1st	XII
2	Swarupa Sharma	Rockvale Academy	2nd	XII
3	Pujan Mukhia	St. Gorge's H. S. School	3rd	XII

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2nd Oct’ 2011: 3rd Anniversary Programme of Kalimpong Science Centre (VIEW IMAGES)*

Kalimpong Science Centre observed its 3^rd Anniversary on 2^nd October’2011. On this day following programmes were organized:

(i)                  Prize distribution: Sit and Draw Competition and Essay Writing Competition for students of Darjeeling district were conducted on 23^rd Sept’2011 and all the participants awarded with certificate of participation and winner with trophy & certificate on 2^nd October’2011.
(ii)                Inter College Power Point Presentation Contest on Effect of Earthquake on Himalayan Belt and its Consequences: There were two colleges from Darjeeling for the participation in this contest. They are St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling and Ghoom Jorebunglow Degree College, Darjeeling.

The names of the participants are:
(i)                  Rinchen Tamang
(ii)                Prashant Prdhana
(iii)               Phincho Bhutia
(iv)              Thendup Thsering Bhutia 

The name of the students who placed in 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th position are:
(i)                  Rinchen Tamang: 1^st, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling
(ii)                Prashant Prdhana, 2^nd, St. Joseph’s College, Darjeeling
(iii)               Phincho Bhutia, 3^rd, Ghoom Jorebunglow Degree College
(iv)              Thendup Thsering Bhutia, 4^th,  Ghoom Jorebunglow Degree College

All the participants were awarded with certificate of participation and winner with trophy & certificate

The program was started with cultural program and the cultural dance was presented by:

(i)                  Champamaya Jr. Basic School, Bhalukhope, Kalimpong  and the name who participated in this dance are: (a) Sadana Sundas (b) Sabana Aktar (c) Dipika Sharma (d) Trishna Rai (e) Dipik Chettri (f) Sandesh Kalikoti
On the same Mr. Sandesh Kalikoti from Champamaya Jr. Basic School, Bhalukhope presented “One Act Play” on the topic of “Ama”.
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(ii)                Folk Cultural Unit, Kalimpong  and the name of the participants are given below:
Nikita Giri, Jeeya Gurung, Emilya Lepcha, Salsitina Lepcha, Barshana Bhitrikoti and Praniaha Dahal

The judges of the Inter College Power Point Presentation Contest were:
·         Samser Ali, Food & Supply Officer, Kalimpong
·         Paul Simick, HM, Ramdahal High School
·         Dipak Kumar Sharma, A/T, Kumdini Homes, Kalimpong
·         Kuber Prasad Gupta, A/T, St. George H. S. School, Pedong

On the same day, the Centre had honored by presenting “Gorkha Topi” and “Khada” to local reporter of KTV-Kalimpong, Himalayan Darpan, Janpath Samachar and Kalimpong Pratidin Local Channel. The names of the reporter are given below:

(i)                  Mr. Kharka Chhetri, Managing Director, Kalimpong Pratidin Channel
(ii)                Nimesh Rai, Reporter, Himalayan Darpan
(iii)               Mukesh Sharma, Reporter, Janpath Samachar
(iv)              Firoj Kureshi, Videographer, KTV-Kalimpong

 

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Seminar on medicinal plants entitled “Medicinal Plants: Wealth of the Region” & “Medicinal Plants Exhibition” (VIEW IMAGES)

 

Kalimpong Science Centre has organized “School Level Medicinal Plant Exhibition and Seminar” and “Seminar from the renowned Scientists on the Medicinal Plants” for the general masses and students. The main motive of the program was to educate & aware the students about medicinal plants found in their surroundings.  Darjeeling district being a terrain with huge verities of medicinal plants but still remains unexplored and undocumented. The documentation of these medicinal plants and its patents are highly needed.

The program was funded by Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of West Bengal.

The program was held for two days i.e. 12^th and 13^th of November’ 2011.

In the first day i.e. 12^th November 2011 an exhibition of medicinal plants was held where 11 schools had participated. Each school had brought ten to fifteen lived medicinal plants in separate pots with vivid description about the plant and its uses. The names of the participating schools with the name of students were as follows:

Sl. No	Name of the schools	Name of the students
01	B.M. high school, Lava, Kalimpong	1.Puja Rai 2.Rustam Chettri 3.Sanju Sharma 4.Sabnam Rai 5.Sangay Lathu Lepcha 6.Dawa Doma Sherpa
02	St. Mary’s School, 14th Mile, Kalimpong	1.Subam Chettri 2.Bishek Thapa 3.Monika Ghimiray 4.Chimmila Bhutia 5.Megna Rai
03	Kumidini Homes, Kalimpong	1.Mahendra Bhandari 2.Bishal Bhandari 3.Prashant Sharma 4.Subam Rai
04	Ram Lal Dahal, 14th Mile, Kalimpong	1.Binita Tamang 2.Puja Pradhan 3.Augustina Lepcha 4.Sanjay Tamang 5.Lakpa Choden Tamang 6.Bikash Koirala
05	St. Augustine’s School, Kalimpong	1.Arpan Mishra 2.Rohan Subba 3.Dadul Namgyal Wangdi 4.Kalden Gyurmay Yalmo 5.Abhinav Roka
06	St. George Higher Secondary School, Pedong, Kalimpong	1.Namrata Moktan 2.Puja Sharma 3.Bindu Rai
07	Jubilee High Secondary School, Kalimpong	1.Binita Darjee 2.Mary Lepcha 3.Prashanta Rai 4.Rakesh Sharma 5.Kumar Tamang 6.Dev Kumar Chettri
08	Sukhia Pokhri High School, Sukhia, Darjeeling	1.Abhigel Rai 2.Peden Tamang 3.Shidhant Mohra 4.Pooja Thami
09	Vrindavan School, Kalimpong	1.Abhigya Subba 2.Astha Chettri 3.Dushyant Chettri 4.Rajat Subba
10	Dr. Ambedkar Educational and Welfare Institute, Mungpoo, Darjeeling	1.Sneha Singuaray 2.Sabnam Tamang 3.Suruchi Chettri 4.Nawakriti Rai 5.Simran Malla 6.Pranil Chhetri 7.Gyabo Lepcha 8.Pravesh Tamang 9.Apekcha Khati 10. Anmol Rai
11	Chandra Maya High School, Kalimpong	1.Madan Tamang 2.Sudip Sunam 3.Nikita Pradhan 4.Algina Rai 5.Sapunam Subba

 On the same day a seminar on “Medicinal Plants: Wealth of the Region” was held where the students delivered lectures and put up power point presentation on the given topic. The seminar was judged by four judges namely:-

1.      Mr. Samsher Ali, Food and Supply Officer, Kalimpong
    Mr. Pravin Rai, Principal, St. Peter’s School, Kalimpong
    Mr. Bikash Ghaley, Principal, Buds Nursery School, Kalimpong
    Dr. B. B. Gurung, Curator of Kalimpong Science Centre

The contestants for the seminar were as follows:

Sl. No	Name of the school	Name of the Participants
01	B.M. high School, Lava, Kalimpong	1.Puja Rai 2.Rustam chettri
02	Kumidini Homes, Kalimpong	1.Sachin Tiruwa 2.Pasang Sherpa
03	Ram Lal Dahal, 14th Mile, Kalimpong	1.Deepika Chettri
04.	St. George Higher Secondary School, Pedong, Kalimpong	1.Kushal Rai 2.Lamu Sherpa
05	St. Augustine’s School, Kalimpong	1.Jordan K.T. Namchu 2.Sandip Jaiswal
06	Indo- Tibetan High School, Kalimpong	1.Esther Lepcha 2.Sakil Rai
07	Chandra High School, Kalimpong	1.Nikita Subba
08	Sukhia Pokhri High School, Sukhia, Darjeeling	1.Sumit Subba 2.Pranit Rai

 

The name of the participants who had been placed in 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd …positions are given below:

1^st: Mr. Kushal Rai, St. George Higher Secondary School, Kalimpong

2^nd:Mr. Jordan K.T. Namchu, St. Augustine’s School, Kalimpong

3^rd: Mr. Sachin Tiruwa, Kumidini Homes, Kalimpong

4^th: Miss Nikita Subba, Chandra Maya High School, Kalimpong

5^th: Miss Lamhu Sherpa, St. George Higher Secondary School, Kalimpong

6^th: Miss Esther Lepcha, Indo- Tibetan School, Kalimpong

7^th: Miss Puja Rai, B.M. High School, Kalimpong

8^th: Mr. Rustam Chettri, B.M. High School, Kalimpong

9^th: Mr. Pranit Rai, Sukhia Pokhri High School, Darjeeling

10^th: Mr. Sumit Subba, Sukhia Pokhri High School, Darjeeling

Chief Guest of the 1^st day was Mr. R. Manigandam, Project Co-coordinator, North Bengal Science Centre who inaugurated the “Medicinal Plants Exhibition” and following dignitaries witnesses the program:

Mr. Prabin  Rai, Principal, St. Peter’s School, Kalimpong

Mr. D. K. Tamang, Senior Teacher, Sukhia Pokhri H. S. School, Darjeeling

Mr. Samsher Ali, Food and Supply Officer, Kalimpong

Mr. Bikash Ghaley, Principal, Buds Nursery School, Kalimpong

Dr. B. B. Gurung, Curator of Kalimpong Science Centre

 On 13^th November 2011 a seminar was held where eminent personals from different colleges/university had been invited. Principals/Headmasters, common peoples, scholars and students from different school had attended the seminar. During the seminar the botanist working in the field of medicinal plants delivered lectures with power point presentation showing the hidden wealth in the form of medicinal plant that grows around us. Those eminent botanists who participated in the seminar working in the field of medicinal plant are as follows;

1.      Dr. Binod Chandra Sharma, Head, Dept. of Botany, Darjeeling Govt. College

2.      Dr. Santosh Rai, Research Associate, Sikkim University, Sikkim

3.      Dr. Shiva Kumar Sharma, Post Doctoral Fellow, National Centre for Biological Research, Banglore

4.      Dr. Jayshree Pradhan, Assistant Professor, Kalimpong College

The dignitaries present on 13^th of Nov’2011 were as follows:

Chief Guest: Mr. P. Sada, Secretary, Dept. of Finance-DGHC

Guest of Honour: Mr. Padam Singh Darnal, Chief Controller of Finance-DGHC

Paul Simick, Headmaster, Ramdahal High School,

Guest: Yogesh Pradhan, Executive Engineer, Kalimpong Engineering Div.-DGHC,          

Churamani Rai, Executive Engineer-Rural Electrification Div.-DGHC,

Bimal Gazmer, Assistant Director of Tourism-DGHC-Kalimpong,

Headmistress, Marry Scott Blind School, Kalimpong

Zigmi Sherpa, Lecturer, Janata College, Kalimpong

 

The name of the schools that occupied 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd …positions in “Inter-Schools Medicinal Plants Exhibition” were:

1^st: St. Augustine’s School, Kalimpong

2^nd: Ram Lal Dahal High School, Kalimpong

3^rd: Kumidini Homes, Kalimpong

4^th: Jubilee Higher secondary School, Kalimpong

5^th: Chandra Maya High School, Kalimpong

 

The programs concluded by awarding Certificates and Trophies to the winners and Certificates of Participants to all the participating schools and students in seminar and exhibition.

The outcome of the program was very educative as well as informative. In this program the students not only became familiar with the medicinal plants they can find around them but also got ideas so as how these plants could be used. The Principal/Teacher-in- Charge/Headmaster/Teachers who attended the seminar and the exhibition were morally boosted up to take initiative to make a medicinal garden in their respective schools so that the all the students could see them and use it practically in their school itself and in their daily life.

Kalimpong Science Centre in the other hand has decided to document all those medicinal plants exhibited in the form of monograph and has decided to motivate each & every schools in the formation of medicinal gardens in their schools through “Science Club” which has already been registered under this Centre.          

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