Vijnana Harate
Conversations with scientists
Simple experiments
Local languages
Informal, lively sessions where students sit with scientists, try small activities, and ask the questions they actually carry.
About Vijnana Harate
Harate means conversation. A Harate visit feels like that: a circle of students and a scientist, a table with simple materials, and a quiet insistence that science belongs in everyday life.
Sessions are run with teachers, in the language students are most at ease in. We use household objects and low-cost setups to explain ideas cleanly, then connect those ideas to the students’ own setting.
What happens in a visit
- Conversation first: students frame the topic, we fold in the science.
- Simple experiments to make the idea land — materials you can find at home or in the lab.
- Public forum with teachers and parents on what is hard in classrooms and what can be improved.
- Short teacher sessions on how to keep the spirit of the visit going in regular lessons.
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Impact
After a Harate, schools write back with small changes: a practical added to class, a question asked earlier in the lesson, a parent who joins the next event. That steady, local movement is what we aim for.