જય વિજ્ઞાન
Kalaniketan LokVignan Kendra is the District Community Science Centre in Vyara, run by Kalaniketan Charitable Trust, Vyara, under the Gujarat Council on Science & Technology.
Participants, teachers and guests under the District Community Science Centre banner.
We are Tapi district’s community science centre. From our rooms on Haripura Street in Vyara we run science seminars, dramas and quizzes for schools, train mathematics and science teachers, and take simple experiments into villages to replace superstition with understanding.
The centre is run by Kalaniketan Charitable Trust, Vyara and follows the programmes and guidelines of the Gujarat Council on Science & Technology (GUJCOST), Gandhinagar. Its work reaches students from Standard 6 to 12, their teachers, and families across the district.
લોકવિજ્ઞાન કેન્દ્રનાં ઉદ્દેશો
Our sixteen aims, grouped by who they serve. Each one is written in Gujarati on the aims page, with an English translation.
કેટલીક ક્ષણો
7 albums and 47 photographs of seminars, competitions, training and the centre itself. Every photo is captioned with the event, place and date.
Registered with GUJCOST in 2016, the centre has since held district rounds of national science competitions, trained teachers, and marked science and health days in schools and villages.
The centre provides schools with the National Children’s Science Congress Activity Guidebook, published by NCSTC, DST, Government of India. Focal theme for 2022 and 2023: “Understanding Ecosystem for Health and Well-being”.
Open the guidebook (PDF, 5 MB)A district quiz on information technology for secondary schools, held at the centre on Haripura Street, Vyara.
9 photos in the albumWorking Women’s Day under the Mahila Sashaktikaran Pakhwadiya, at the District Seva Sadan auditorium, Vyara.
3 photos in the albumDistrict round at Vidyakunj Vidyalaya, Virpur. School teams staged plays on science themes.
6 photos in the albumWith RMSA and the District Education Officer’s office, Vyara.
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secondary schools in Tapi district took part in the Rural IT Quiz.
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school teams qualified for GUJCOST’s state-level IT quiz.
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teams reached the state level in GUJCOST competitions in one year.
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children taken to the Civil Hospital for AIDS awareness, with health kits.
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trees planted at Chikhli, the village the centre adopted on Environment Day.
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young people guided on modern technology on National Technology Day.
પ્રેસમાં
Gujarati newspapers covered our seminars, quizzes and yearly work. Each clipping has an English summary on the media page.
Kalaniketan Lok Vigyan Kendra, Vyara holds the district-level National Science Seminar 2017
Held at P.P. Savani Vidyamandir under GUJCOST guidelines, on the role of science and technology in the Swachh Bharat (cleanliness) mission.
Kalaniketan District Lok Vigyan Kendra, Tapi holds the Rural IT Quiz
The first programme after GUJCOST, Gandhinagar approved Kalaniketan Trust as Tapi district’s Lok Vigyan Kendra, held at the centre on Haripura Street, Vyara.
A year of work at Kala Niketan Lok Vigyan Kendra, Vyara
On AIDS Day, 200 children from science-club schools were taken by bus to the Civil Hospital, briefed on AIDS and given health kits.
કેન્દ્રનો સ્ટાફ
Nine people run the centre’s programmes, from the Director to our science pracharaks and volunteers.
Director
Ketan D. Shah
M.Sc., B.Ed.
The centre guides school teams from Tapi district through the National Children’s Science Congress. Child scientists aged 10 to 17 work on a project under this cycle’s focal theme:
Understanding Ecosystem for Health and Well-being
Activity Guidebook 2022 & 2023, 163 pages. Published by the National Council for Science & Technology Communication (NCSTC), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India.
Schools, teachers and parents are welcome to ask about seminars, quizzes, the Children’s Science Congress and teacher training.
