Mangalore : After inaugurating a children’s Daksina Kannada District level High School Science-based Exhibition and a drama competition, VIT Museum director Shivaprasad Kened of Bangalore, stated here at Pilikula Regional Science Centre (Mangalore), that our children can learn more by practical and demonstrative methods based on science to develop their intellectual capacities than by an educational system on official lines made possible only within four walls of a class-room.

He meant that they would be more intelligent by following independent and scientifically based demonstrations of principles they learnt in a class-room than only following classroom teaching.

India has over 5000 years of ancient culture and civilization based on spirit that has given to the world, many contributions in mathematics, statistics and other pure sciences.

After 200 years of English and other colonialism, we had food problem, but succeeded in raising production of milk and food grains for our self-sufficiency by 5 year Plans.

If we inculcate a scientific temperament among our student population by natural education and leaning/thinking by examples around us, by 2020 we could be a developed country as expected by our/past President, APJ Abdul Kalam, by shedding our superstitions and gaining normal powers, by brainstorming ways.

The FAO observes 2012 as Madame Curie’s Nobel Prize centenary year for chemistry, Kened said.

Ms. K.T. Shailaja Bhat, DK-ZP chairperson, presided. She referred to Sir CV Raman and Dr. Jagdish Chandra Bose, and their lives for young students, to take inspiration from to become scientists.

Some Panchayat members spoke on the occasion D.K.V. Rao of Pilikula Science Centre welcomed. DDPI Moses Jaya Shekhar proposed a vote of thanks.

90 award-winning students in Science exhibition showed over 90 models of their discovery in agriculture, food items, fuel bio-gas, Solar power, and windmill power and other subjects.