Forty nine students of Class XII from three different Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools of Meghalaya along with 7 faculty members visited NESAC on 29th March 2022 as a part of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) programme called “Vigyan Jyoti Scheme”. The students’ visit was coordinated by Dr Rekha B Gogoi, Scientist-SE and Shri Abhishek Chhari, Scientist-SD. Dr Arup Borgohain, Scientist-SE, NESAC gave a general overview of Indian Space Programme and informed the students about the various activities of NESAC and other ISRO/DOS Centres. Later, the students were taken to the Space and Atmospheric Science lab, where Dr Aniket Chakravorty, Scientist-SD provided detailed information about the working principles of different instruments used for understanding atmospheric processes prevalent over the region through observation. They were also taken to the UAV lab and a live demonstration of UAV fly was given by Shri Sashi B. Nayak, Technical Assistant, NESAC.
