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BRIEF REPORT OF INSPIRE PROGRAM

DAY 1:( INAGURATION)

INSPIRE Science Camp-2013 inauguration

A Five day INSPIRE Science Camp-2013 was inaugurated at Sanjay Gandhi Govt.

Degree College, Piler on 14-11-2013. In His inaugural address Prof. W.Rajendra, Vice

Chancellor, S.V.University,Tirupathi told that the present day students have ample

opportunities to grow, when compared to olden days. The students are motivated by

eminent personalities in such camps and He insisted Self motivation among the students

on this occasion, he informed the students that parents give life and teachers give the

art of living which the students should develop positive attitude to come up in their life.

Another speaker, Prof. Rathna Kumari, Vice Chancellor. SPMVV in her

speech informed the students that they should persue sceince Education for which

Central Govt. is providing scholarships. Dept. Of Science & Tech. (DST) also provides

scholarships at various levels to promote science education and also research. Both of

the Vice Chancellors in their inaugural addresses stressed that talent has no barriers

either for the rural or urban and rich or poor. Though both of them hailed from rural

areas have come up to prestigious positions and the students should inspire by looking

into great people.

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Prof. Janardhana Raju, Dept. of Environmental Science, New Delhi gave talk on

Management of Water Resources. He stressed the need of water harvesting abd

suggested measures to develop ground water table.The Principal of the college

Dr.T.V.Manjulatha Devi presided over the function and asked the students to make use

of science camp.

Smt K.Ushasri Organising Coordinator explained about the INSPIRE Science Camp

and also provided the programme schedule of the 5 days. Dr. D.V.R. vice Principal and

Sri MRRMR, Vice President, student Union and Staff participated in the event.

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DAY2:

S.G.Govt Degree College Piler of Chittoor District is conducting "INSPIRE" program

sponsored by Deparment of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, to the students of

Intermediate who are studying mathematics and sciences.

On the second day inspire lectures were arranged by inviting

Prof. P.V.Arunachalam, Ex-Vice chancellor of Dravidian University, Kuppam and Prof

N.Bhaskar Reddy of S.V.University Tirupathi.

Prof.P.V. Arunachalam gave an elaborate lecture on the

development of science. He also mentioned the events which inspired Goutham Budha

and Mahatma Gandhi to lead them into great men in the society. He also mentioned

the inspired moments of great mathematicians to formulate different theories.

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Prof N. Bhaskar Reddy gave a lecture on mathematical modeling and its

applications in Astrophysics, Nanotechnology, design and testing of nuclear weapons and

in bio medical sciences.

In the afternoon session the students were taken to the

departments of Botany, Zoology, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Biotechnology

and Microbiology for hands on experimentation. All these programs were conducted

under the guidance of the principal Dr.T.V.Manjulatha Devi and Co-Ordinator

Smt.Ushasree.

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DAY3:

As a part of INSPIRE program sponsored by Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of

India Prof. P.V .Ranganayakulu of S.V.Ayurvedic College, Tirupathi and Dr.D.V.Reddy

Reader in Chemistry of this college were invited on the third day to deliver special

lectures.

Prof P.V Ranganayakulu delivered an inspire lecture on Astronomy

and Nuclear Physics. He opined that there is a good scope in the feild of Astronomy and

nuclear physics for research and career oppurtunities. He advised the students to work

with dedication so that Noble prizes can be won like those of scientists of Germany. He

also suggested to read the biographies of great scientists to get inspired and progress.

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Dr.D.Venkatramana Reddy explained the aim, objectives and various components

of INSPIRE program. He has described the educational, career opportunities, National

institutes offering various courses, list of National Research centers to the benefit of the

students. He also explained the importance of chemistry in day to day life with special

emphasis on Organic Chemistry.

The students attended to the laboratories of the college for Hands on Experimentation in

the noon session. Laboratory kits (Science Kits) were issued to all the students. The

program was conducted in the supervision of the principal Dr. T.V. Manjulatha Devi,

Co-ordinated by K. Ushasri, DrP.Hanumantha Raju, K.Hemalatha and J.Kishore Kumar.

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DAY 4:

As a part of Inspire program sponsored by Department of science and technology,

Govt. of India, on the fourth day two eminent scientists were invited to inspire the

students at S.G. Govt Degree College Piler. Prof. R.Ramakrishna Reddy UGC emeritus

scientist, SK University Anantapur was invited and he had inspired the students by his

lecture "Inspire by Nature". He said that man has been inspired by different living

organisms for his development. The lotus leaf was the inspiration for the development of

Lotus water proof paint, the spiders web for the construction of Niagara Suspension

Bridge, the shape of Kingfisher for the fastest bullet train, the ant hills for the

multistoried air conditioned building.

He also explained that the visual, auditory, olfactory sense is more in animals

than that of man. He emphasized the need of knowing several things from nature. Man

is depending on animals like dogs for identifying the criminals even today, also told that

the animals could identify the natural calamity earlier to machines.

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Dr.A.Sivakumar from Vellore Institute of technology, Vellore gave a lecture on "

Heavy metals and their impact on human life". He said that the metals like mercury,

iron, cobalt, chromium,sodium,potassium are required in permissible limits to carry out

metabolic activities. The metals like lead and cadmium are not essential to human life.

He made a point that due to pollution the heavy metals are entering human body and

causing the diseases. He advised the students to educate the society on illeffects of

heavy metal pollution.

The students went to the laboratories in the afternoon session for hands on

experimentation. These programs were organized under the guidance of Principal

Dr.T.V.Manjulatha Devi, Vice-principal Dr.D.Venkatramana Reddy, Co-ordinator

K.UshaSree and faculty Dr.P.Hanumantha Raju, A.Jaya sankar,R.Anand, smt.Bhavani

Devi and Smt. Hemalatha.

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Hands on Experimentation Photos

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DAY 5: (Valedictory)

As a part of 5th and final day of the INSPIRE program Prof. S.Dayananda, School

of Life-sciences , University of Hyderabad and Prof. A.Jayaraman Director, National

Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Gadanki, Chittoor Dist were invited to inspire the

students.

Prof. S.Dayananada spoke on Gene, Genomes and Genetic engineering. The

discoveries like electricity, antibiotics, transportation, fuels etc, changed the human life.

He told that the Ex-President of India Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam is responsible for designing

the program INSPIRE. He interacted with the students and got the answers from them

regarding the difference between science and technology. He suggested several courses

and the institutes offering courses to the students. He also informed about the national

research laboratories in India to the students. He also explained the genes, reasons for

the difference in size of the genes and genetic engineering.

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In the second session Prof. Jayaraman spoke to the students. He delivered a

lecture on the Sun, Earth and solar system. He told that the life period of sun is about

5.4 billion years from today. All the oceans will dry up after one billion years, water will

form on the planet Mars. The life from earth has to move from earth to mars. He also

explained how spots are formed in the sun, Asteroids and satellites formation.

He inspired the student with his valuable speech and told that richest

country in the world is the one where highest technology development prevails and the

people who are technologically strong are richest in the world. He also pointed out that

in recent years man is destroying the nature irrationally and warned that man cannot

construct the nature.

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In the noon session of the final day this camp commenced talk with

Prof.A.L.Moorthy, consultant, BRAHMOS Aero Space Engineering, Indo-Russian. He gave

elaborated speech on Innovation, Invention & Scientific Program. He also touched

History of the science and discussed about Indian Scientists and how the Ancient Indian

Scientist laid this foundation for the development of Science & Technology.

He explained about the patent rights to india and also about the Indian

Traditional Medicines. He wished all the participants to pursue research in science.

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In the Valedictory programme, the valedictory address was given by Prof.A.L.

Moorthy, the cheif guest, and principal Dr.T.V. Manjulatha Devi chaired the function,

K.Ushasree submitted a report on the five day program and finally the students are

given participating certificates