Welcome to Vidnyanvahini, a non-profit organization reaching out to rural school children to offer them a means of learning science through Mobile Science Lab for experiments.

Recent Events

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Science Day Celebrations

Science Exhibition organized by GMRT

Vidnyanvahini participated in Science Exhibition organized by GMRT,Khodad on 28th & 29th Feb 2024. The event was supported by Rotory Club of Pune north. More than 22000 students and science lovers visited the exhibition. 150+ schools and Engineering colleges from Pune district as well as out of Maharashtra state presented their projects.

राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान दिनाच्या निमित्ताने सातारा जिल्हा दौरा

राष्ट्रीय विज्ञान दिनाच्या निमित्ताने ,दोन दिवसांच्या सातारा जिल्हा दौऱ्याचे नियोजन करण्यात आले होते. प्रयोगातून विज्ञान, वैज्ञानिक उपकरणांची निर्मिती आणि त्याच बरोबर ८ वी / ९ वी च्या विद्यार्थ्यांशी संवाद असा कार्यक्रम निश्चित करण्यात आला होता. दि. २८ नोव्हेंबर रोजी सकाळी ११ ते १:३० या वेळेत, शारदाबाई पवार माध्यमिक व उच्च माध्यमिक आश्रमशाळा, जकातवाडी या शाळेतील विद्यार्थ्यांना, आजूबाजूला सहज उपलब्ध होणाऱ्या वस्तूंपासून निरनिराळी वैज्ञानिक उपकरणे तयार करता येतात याची प्रात्यक्षिके दाखवण्यात आली. २९ तारखेला ,सकाळी साडेनऊ ते दुपारी साडेबारा या वेळेत , " प्रयोगातून विज्ञान " हा मनोरंजनात्मक कार्यक्रम मुलांसमोर सादर करण्यात आला. सावित्रीबाई फुले प्राथमिक शाळा आणि साथी एस. एम.जोशी माध्यमिक आश्रमशाळा यामधील एकूण १२० विद्यार्थी विद्यार्थिनी आणि दोन्ही शाळेतील सर्व शिक्षक उपस्थित होते. प्रयोग संपल्यानंतर मुला मुलींनी उत्स्फूर्तपणे त्यांच्या प्रतिक्रिया व्यक्त केल्या.

Latest Updates

Annual Report for the year 2021-22 can be seen here (PDF 3MB)
मेंदू- भाग-२ ▶
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“असे कां आणि कसे? ▶

If Vidnyanvahini's MSL project appeals to you, we welcome you to participate!

(1) by providing kits of novel scientific experiments,
(2) by providing appropriate audio-visual aids, or
(3) by donating to the corpus fund of Vidnyanvahini which sustains our work.

Mobile Science Laboratory

Vidnyanvahini, through its MSL (Mobile Science Lab), gives rural students a chance to learn science through experiments.

Teacher training workshops

With a view to raise the standards of science teaching in rural schools, Vidnyanvahini conducts a number of teacher training workshops every year.

Testimonials

"Vidnyanvahini brought in their mobile science lab to give students and teachers an experience they will not forget."

Rural science centre

The Centre located in Anadur in Osmanabad district of Maharashtra offers the opportunity to perform science experiments to students in surrounding rural schools.

Student camps

This camp, held annually in Pune, seeks to expose rural students to current developments in science and technology.

Volunteer

"Vidnyanvahini took me into an entirely foreign culture and opened my eyes to the world I had not seen."

Vision

While urban India has made very impressive progress to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, rural school education in India never quite made it out of the nineteenth. This is especially true with respect to science education due to the lack of adequate laboratories. On the global scene, India's contribution to science and technology is quite noteworthy. But education at the rural school level has suffered from benign neglect. Whereas in metropolitan India we see the wonders of technology such as satellite communication and super computers; in rural India we see poverty, a lack of basic infrastructure, and an abundance of superstitions. Vidnyanvahini's vision is to try to reduce this gap as much as possible, at least at the educational level.

Objectives

To provide rural school children with an opportunity to handle scientific apparatus and learn the basics of science through experiments.
To create awareness of the relevance of science in the lives of rural school children by discussing concepts such as cleanliness, hygiene, safe drinking water, and the environment.
To explain the science behind some seemingly curious results, and thus help remove age-old superstitions.
To educate adolescent children on human reproduction.
To bridge the gap between urban and rural education.
To spread the message in rural communities that science can help solve the problems in their everyday lives as much as it does for the urbanites.
To hold workshops and training camps for science teachers in order to establish a dialogue with them through continuing education.