Training for KVS Teachers

Date: 31st March 2015

Time: 09:00 AM 01:00 PM
Venue: Kendriya Vidyalaya, RK Puram Sector 8
No of participants: Teachers: 38 TGTs Students: 40 studnts of class XII
Chief Resource Person: Mr Samar Bagchi
Assistance from Anveshika: Vinita Sharat, Renu Mittal
Mr Bagchi dealt with Archimedes Principle, Air Pressure, Surface tension
and Newtons Laws of Motion through his low cost apparatus and offered
insight into seemingly difficult concepts with very simple explanations.
Mrs Indu Kaushik, Assistant Commissioner, KVS was also present during
the program.
The program was organised by Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan through
special efforts by BVN-IAPT Anveshika.

Training for NDMC Schools Teachers

Date: 30th March 2015
Time: 10:30 AM 01:00 PM
Venue: NDMC Conference Hall, Sansad marg
No of participants: Teachers: 32 TGTs, Students: 10 students of class
XII
Chief Resource Person: Mr Samar Bagchi

Assisting Resource Persons from Anveshika: Sutapa LahaDe, Pragya

Nopany
Touching everyones heart with his humour and simple, easy to grasp
explanations, Mr Bagchi was an instant hit with the audience. He dealt
with Newtons laws of motions & Fluid mechanics using very low cost
demonstrations. Mrs Sutapa Laha De & Pragya Nopany also showed one
experiment each. Mrs Vidushi Chaturvedi, Director NDMC was also present
at the occasion.
The program was organised by NDMC through special efforts by Sutapa
Laha De, a resource person of BVN-IAPT Anveshika.

From Conventional to Empirical

Date: 14th March 2015
Time: 08:30 AM 02:30 PM
Venue: The Heritage School, Gurgaon
Name of the workshop: From Conventional to Empirical
No of participating teachers: 51 TGTs & PGTs
Chief Resource Person: Dr H.C.Verma
Anveshika Resource Persons: Mrs Pragya Nopany, Sutapa LahaDe,
M.K.Uma, Smita Fangaria

With full support from BVN-IAPT Anveshika, The Heritage School Gurgaon
hosted an interactive physics workshop conducted by Prof. H.C.Verma to a
packed auditorium of physics teachers from schools all over NCR.

Inspiring teachers, in his motivational lecture Dr Verma said in my 30

years as an IIT professor, I don't need to know more that 25 formulae.
Then why do we force kids to remember 500 formulae?! More than
succeeding in exams, it is important to feel science...

Praising the demonstration experiments developed by BVN-IAPT

Anveshika, he said he does not need to bring any experiments with him to
Delhi and invited Anveshika resource persons to demonstrate on stage.

He led the discussion on each experiment through his probing, mind

tickling questions, highlighting how our observation of different aspects of
same experiment can bring excitement and joy. He showed us practically
how to get the students to fall in love with the subject by moving beyond
definitions and equations.

From Fear to Fascination - Physics through activities

Date: 27th Sept 2014
Time: 08:30 AM 04:30 PM
Venue: Birla Vidya Niketan
Title of workshop: From Fear to Fascination - Physics through
activities
No of Participating Schools: 50
No of Participants: 300
Level of Participants: Class XI & XII students & PGTs
Chief Resource Person: Dr H.C.Verma, Professor of Physics IIT,
Kanpur
Guests of Honour: 1. Mrs. Renu Sharma, Deputy Director of
Education, Directorate of Education, South Delhi
2. Mr. Mani, Deputy Commisioner, Kendriya
Vidyalaya Sanghatan, Gurgaon Region
Resource Persons from BVN-IAPT Anveshika:
1. Mrs Vinita Sharat
2. Mrs P. Uma
The event commenced with the welcome address by the Principal Ms.
Meenakshi Kushwaha who urged the students to take up research
endeavors in science and not go for conventional career options. The chief
guest Mrs Renu Sharma welcomed the efforts of BVN-IAPT Anveshika to
make learning of physics easier through interesting activities especially
because students find physics very stressful.
Interacting with students at length Dr. H.C.Verma explained his joy of
learning physics through experimentation and asked the students to delve
into the road not taken. In a stimulating session next, Dr Verma
demonstrated numerous activities designed by him for the senior
secondary students. We sat with awestruck faces, as he drew our
attention like a magnet commented Nikita , a student of Amity
International School.
With the objective of showing the effectiveness of teaching through
activities BVN-IAPT Anveshika resource persons Ms. Vineeta Sharat and
Ms. M. K. Uma took up two model classes for teachers on Refraction of
Light and Electromagnetism respectively.
For teaching the complex concepts of Thermodynamics, an exclusive
teachers session was conducted by Dr Verma in which through a series of
experiments he debunked several myths of physics that we blindly follow.
The session ended with a vote of thanks by Mrs Pragya Nopany, coordinator, BVN-IAPT Anveshika.
The event was a huge success because it not only helped the students in
appreciating the beauty of physics but also channeling their natural
curiosity into quest for finding this beauty in everything around them.
The event was covered by NDTV India and shown on their Hindi
channel on 29-09-2014