Karaikkal Children's Science Festival: 3rd to 7th October 2011

Pondicherry Science Forum is organizing a Children's Science Festival at Karaikkal involving children from the 4 different enclaves of Pondicherry - Mahe (in Kerala), Yanam (in Andhrapradesh), Pondicherry and Karaikkal. The Karaikkal District PSF Unit is organizing the Festival where in 50 guest students from Pondicherry, Yanam and Mahe will stay with 50 host children from Karaikkal. The festival is scheduled for five days from 3rd October to 7th October 2011.

Various Science Activity corners will be the attraction of the Karaikkal Children's Science Festival, which will have Science Experiment Corner, Explaining Miracles, Mathematics Corner, Origami, Nature Study, Science Toy Making Corner etc. The Children will be taken for a one day local site seeing tour on one of the days.

The KCSF is being catalyzed & Supported by the Department of Science, Technology & Environment, Govt. of Pondicherry in collaboration with the Directorate of School Education, Govt. of Pondicherry. The criteria for participation of children is that they should have participated in the National Children's Science Congress (NCSC) either at the State level or at the District level from any of the four enclaves of Pondicherry in the year 2010. Age for eligibility for participation is between 11 and 13 years. Fifty (50%) percent of the participant children will be girls.