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Promoting Science among School Students

Star-GP project launched

Staff Correspondent
The Daily Star and Grameenphone yesterday jointly inaugurated a project to promote science among schoolchildren across three divisions by firing an interest in the young minds in science through different creativity contests.
The programme titled "Ignite" is scheduled to roll out in February 2014, and will be targeting two lakh secondary school students from 75 institutions from Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, speakers told the ceremony at The Daily Star Centre in the capital.
Secondary school students from class VI to X were chosen as the target group so that they engage themselves with science in the coming years, they added.
In addition, 2,000 teachers will be involved in the programme, said Grameenphone's head of corporate communications Sayed Tahmeed Azizul Huq.
They will partake in planning, coordination and facilitation in the promotion of science.
Mahfuz Anam, editor and publisher of The Daily Star, observed that science as a life choice and career option was increasingly being ignored in Bangladesh.
" Lives of all of us are benefited by science. We are intertwined with the pressing issues like climate change and increasing salinity. To survive these, we need to rely on science. Children need to be reared to engage themselves in it," he said.
The name "Ignite" reflects the project's
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commitment to spark an interest in science among the students, the speakers remarked.
"The project plans to do so by holding three different types of competitions. The first titled “Discover Science" will consist of quizzes and trivia questions geared towards teaching children interesting facts about science. The second competition called “Idea Flight" will require students to craft their own projects,
while the third contest, "Imagine the Future", is where student can propose ideas and solutions yet to invented," said The Daily Star's business development manager, Shahriar Shahid.
Dr Salehuddin Ahmed, managing editor of The Daily Star, stressed that the programme does not exclude schools in rural areas. "The project should also facilitate students coming in contact with scientists to inspire them," he said.