Shaastra Junior - Young Scientist

Have you ever imagined living in the early centuries? Without electricity, mobile phones, internet, vehicles, it's difficult, isn't it? These are nothing but ideas that were brought to reality. This event gives you the opportunity to show off the young scientist present in you. You will be creating a working model on some specific science topics. By participating in this event, you will be developing the ability to think, analyze, model and convey the ideas you brought up which are essential for a scientist as well for any other field and most of all, you will be getting the rare opportunity to showcase your idea in one of the top engineering colleges of India. Let us create innovations together, hope to see you there.

Eligibility

Open to all, preferably students from 9th standard onwards.

Teams of 1-3 participants

Registration:

1. The team leader is required to provide the Shaastra IDs of their team members while registering for this event, through this website.

2. The team leader is also required to fill this google form, at the end of which a link is provided to join a Whatsapp Group. Only the team leader is required to join: https://forms.gle/8nd5tMUUCK9z495PA

3. The team leader should also register in D2C for Young Scientist. https://dare2compete.com/o/lqYXCGb?lb=Y0icemL

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Shaastra Juniors: Technical Festival and Competitions for Students

Shaastra is the annual technical festival of IIT Madras. It holds the honour of being the biggest student-run annual fest in Asia with an ISO 9001:2015 certification. The Shaastra team embarks upon an excursion each year, to ensure that what started off as a technical fest, evolves to include a myriad of domains of Science and Technology.

This year Shaastra is back again with the second edition of Shaastra Juniors, a completely online three-day technical festival especially aimed at spreading technical awareness among school students. A fun-filled weekend of October packed with events, shows, lectures, and workshops is sure to have each and every student yearning for more.

Shaastra Juniors will be conducted online so that students can participate from the comfort of their homes. Scheduled to happen from 24th- 26th September and 1st - 3rd October, Shaastra Juniors will be awarding exciting prizes, special trophies and other cool goodies for the best school and excellent students. Each school will compete against one another in order to win the grand Shaastra Juniors Championship. The points will be awarded based on student participation and winnings which will be detailed in the main brochure.

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Science Talent Search for school students - NSITE 2015

Nehru Science Innovation and Technology Expo (NSITE) is a technical mega event organised by Nehru Group of Institutions. NSITE offers a venue to showcase technical expertise of young aspirants in the fields of science and technology which entails events, games and technical competitions structured by various departments like ECE, EEE,Aeronautical, Civil, ME, CSE, IT, Automobile, Mechatronics, MCA, and AME.

In connection with Nsite “Science Talent Search” will be conducted in which High School and Higher Secondary Students can participate and exhibit their Science Projects. 

Registration will be free for all participants.

The winners of the competition will be awarded attractive cash prizes of Rs.25000, Rs.15000 and Rs.10000 for First, Second and Third places respectively.

We would like to honour the Institution providing best participation, on the basis of number of contestants and quality of project exhibited. From among the competing schools, fifteen schools will be ranked on the basis of the above mentioned criteria. The Head of the Institution will be given an opportunity to select the students for award of Nehru Vigyan Scholarship worth Rs. 1 Crore which will entail the student admission in Nehru Colleges and the qualified students will be exempted from tuition fee for their entire B.Tech course.  Three qualified students from the top five schools and one student each from the top ten school will be awarded scholarships. 

All 25 scholarships available will be for 2015 admissions to two Engineering Colleges each at Kerala and Tamil Nadu, under Nehru Group Institutions. Scholarship will be awarded only for one admission to each branch/programme per college under NGI. Principal/ Head Masters of the schools may recommend a student who qualifies the criteria mentioned below:

1. Principal, using his discretion may select one economically backward student who is meritorious and outstanding in his performance.

2. Allotment will be done based on the academic performance of the students with 80% minimum aggregate in plus two.

3. A merit list will be prepared from the recommendations based on their Plus Two marks.  The students should submit first, second and third choice mentioning College and Course.  The allotment to the colleges/courses will be purely based on the Merit list.

4. Students will have to qualify the Kerala Engineering Entrance Examination to get admission in colleges under Nehru Group of Institutions, Kerala.

1. No registration fee

2. Maximum number of students allowable will be five.

3. Students must be Present in college on both days with their exhibits

4. The projects submitted must be original and recent works. The project must be certified by college authorities.

5. Judges will be eminent personalities from Academic / Industrial fields.

6. Decision of panel of judges will be final

7. Participant must carry Id-Cards/ authorization letter from head of the institution.

8. Certificate will be given to all participants.

9. Selection of best three Projects shall be based on innovative ideas and working model of the project.

10. The electrical supply will be provided. Any special requirement should be conveyed to the Convenor in due time and fulfillment will solely depend on Convenor. 

Mr. Sreejith S Nair   :  +919946783047

Mr.  Vidhun V R   : +918089470651

Mr. Chinmayan      : +919048921489 

For details and registration

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