VARANASI: Rural schoolchildren in Classes 6 to 8 will be introduced to science through experiments, working models and sustainability activities at UPS Tikary on Saturday, October 24, under IIT-BHU’s GramVigyan 2026 outreach programme.
The institute’s Virtual Sustainable Development Centre, also described as the SDG Centre, is organising the event with the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences and IIT-BHU’s Social Service Council. The announcement places practical participation at the centre of the school programme.
Hands-on experiments, interactive demonstrations, working models and quizzes are among the planned activities. A Young Innovators Challenge is also listed, bringing a participatory element alongside the demonstrations through which children will encounter scientific ideas.
The programme’s themes include waste management, clean energy, water conservation, microbes, sustainable agriculture and biodiversity. Together, they connect science education with questions that extend beyond a textbook and into the use of water, energy, land and other resources.
Science linked to sustainability
The institute says GramVigyan is intended to encourage scientific curiosity and sustainability awareness among rural children. Its format combines observing demonstrations with opportunities to participate, rather than presenting the day solely as a set of classroom lectures.
The audience is specific: rural pupils in Classes 6–8 at UPS Tikary. The programme brings the institute’s outreach work to the school, linking a technical institution, a young scientists’ academy and a student service council around a shared educational activity.
The SDG Centre’s wider mandate includes green and clean technologies, environmental conservation, efficient energy use and improving quality of life. Its institutional description also identifies training, workshops and awareness activities for students, staff and other stakeholders as part of its work.
Building on the centre’s educational work
In February, the centre organised a workshop on Sustainable Development Goals at IIT-BHU’s Dev and Vardhana Goswami Lecture Hall Complex. The institute recorded around 250 registrations from students, faculty and staff for that event.
That earlier workshop addressed themes including clean energy, water and sanitation, responsible consumption and climate action. GramVigyan takes the sustainability-education focus to a different audience, with school-level practical activities planned at Tikary rather than an institute lecture-hall programme.
Saturday’s activities are still scheduled, and the Young Innovators Challenge has not yet produced results. Families and teachers should use the participating school’s communication for attendance and timing; the programme announcement does not provide a public walk-in schedule.
For the children involved, the planned day offers several ways into the same subject: watching a process in a demonstration, exploring a working model, answering a quiz and contributing an idea. The common thread is science connected with environmental questions and everyday life.
