India is Celebrating 75 years of Independence as Azadi Ka Amrit Mahostav across the country. As a part of this, Amrit Mahotsav Science Showcase: Roadmap to 2047  celebration, is being conducted by Ministry of  Science & technology. Council of Scientific and Industrial Research under Ministry of S&T, is organising a National Level Scientific Creativity Competition Jigyasa Vigyan Mahotsav 2022”.

This competition is to provide an opportunity to school children to exhibit their creative skills and also develop their scientific knowledge and win attractive prizes!!
The competition would be held in contemporary science and technology areas of ‘Energy, Health, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Water Conservation, Disaster Mitigation and Agrotechnology’. School Students can: identify issues/ knowledge gaps; challenges faced; create awareness; identify solutions; futuristic visions etc. in these areas creatively. The students are encouraged to exhibit their creativity in any of the topics in the themes and choose any one of the format of Comics/ Videos/ Infographics/ Science Fiction/ Apps/ Animation  to convey their ideas/ solutions.

The children will be evaluated for their creativity; innovative ideas; story telling ability; message conveyed; overall aesthetics; out of box thinking; usability or applicability in case of apps/ videos/ animations. Students have the opportunity to compete at National level and win Prizes. The top content developed would also be showcased on CSIR Jigyasa Virtual Lab platform for global outreach.

Two Boot Camps will be conducted for Registered Students to prepare them for participation in the competition:

This will be on the scientific topics of ‘Energy, Health, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Water Conservation, Disaster Mitigation and Agrotechnology’ by experts, during second week of January (10th to 14th January) 2022, for the students to gain exposure and understanding into these areas.

There will be a quiz conducted at the end of each lecture during the boot camp.

Students who qualify after the quiz get to attend Boot Camp II on content creation that would be organized by the CSIR.

All the participants of this bootcamp will receive Participation e-Certificate.

This boot camp will be conducted on learning about content creation during third week of January (17th to 21st January) 2022, that would provide exposure in creating creative scientific content in terms of  Comics/ Videos/ Infographics/ Science Fiction/ Apps/ Animation .

On successful completion, students will receive Participation e-Certificate and an opportunity to participate in the prestigious National Competition.