It's a pride moment for PB Parivar that Ira daughter of Shri. Vikrant Mandpe, PEX, AIR sangli who is studding in sixth standard in Annasaheb Kalyani Vidyalay, Satara has achieved Gold Medal in Dr. Homi Bhabha Balvaidnyanik Science Talent Search Competition 2019-2020. She was also honoured as Balvaidnyanik.
The Mumbai Science Teachers' Association conducts Dr. Homi Bhabha Balvaidnyanik Spardha since 1981 to encourage students to take interest in science, to inculcate scientific attitude and to search science talent in students. The competition is conducted for the students studying in VI and IX Std. This competition is based on scientific knowledge acquired by the students up to std. VI and IX. This competition is conducted in English and Marathi Media.
The syllabus for this competition is -
Textbooks of IV, V and VI std of SSC syllabus and Content related to the above from ICSE and CBSE books for 6th std. Textbooks of VII, VIII and IX std of SSC syllabus and Content related to the above from ICSE and CBSE books for 9th std. Marathi medium students should refer the English medium textbooks and the ICSE, CBSE books for examples. Majority of the questions will be from SSS board text books. Less emphasis will be given for knowledge based questions and more emphasis for understanding, reasoning, correlation, etc. The questions related to general knowledge in science will be based on the topics like happenings of the last year and science around day to day life.
Any PB Parivar member can mail such achievements and photo of meritorious Children to pbparivar@gmail.com for possible publication on this blog.