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IIT Roorkee celebrates National Science Day 2021 on February 28 with various competitions. School students across Roorkee have participated in the competitions and bagged prizes. National Science Day 2021: IIT Roorkee celebration highlight | Photo Credit: Representative Image
The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee has celebrated National Science Day 2021 on February 28. Various competitions such as quiz, debate etc., were organized online for the school students.
IIT Roorkee started organizing the competitions for National Science Day 2021 on February 19. An Inter-School Online Science Quiz Competition was held for seven local schools on February 19, 2021. The first prize in Inter School Online Science Quiz Competition was bagged by the Greenway Modern Sr. Sec. School Roorkee.
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In the evening of February 28, 2021, an online Institute Lecture was organized by the IIT Roorkee. The Dean of Academic Affairs, Prof. N P Padhy welcomed the audience and thanked all the schools of Roorkee for their overwhelming participation. Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee addressed the audience on significance of Science Day. The annual Science Day Lecture in an online Mode was delivered by the Chief Guest Prof. Rajeeva Laxman Karandikar, Director Chennai Mathematical Institute on the topic-“Role of Statistics in the Era of Big Data, Analytics, Data Science”.
The event ended with vote of thanks. IIT Roorkee faculty, students and school children attended it.