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ANKURAM 2023 - STUDENT NATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT: 23, 24 JUNE 2023 – DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RESEARCH CELL

Ankuram 2023 - Student National Seminar was conducted on 23 rd and 24 th of June 2023 on the topic “The Role of Science in Sustainable Development of the Environment”. The seminar will focus on nurturing the research culture among post-graduate as well as graduate students through paper presentations.

Science is extremely diverse but converging and overlapping. Considering the importance of science and mathematics in today’s world, it becomes essential to undertake scientific global inquiries in various aspects. This seminar is a crucial step of the Department of science, St. Francis de Sales College towards bringing various branches of science and mathematics together.

Day 1: 23/06/2023
Technical Session 1: The technical talk on Standards & Quality Parameters by the members of BIS were explained. They detailed about the structure of Indian standards. Later a topic was given to students to write standards. 53 standard club members participated in the competition. The written standards were evaluated by the resource persons and prizes and certificates were given to students.

Technical Session 2: The Technical session 2 opened with the welcome to BIS members from our college. There were two poster presentations on Indian Standards by them.

Day 2: 24/06/2023
Technical Session 3: This year, Ankuram 2023 could bring the students before the mindfulness of a resource person like Dr S Bhavani, Assistant Professor, PES University, RR Nagar, Bangalore. She finished her PhD in thin polymer electrolyte films and published 14 research papers in various International Journals. Dr Regimol G George guided the students as session co-chair for offline session. Also, in order to improve the efficacy of the online evaluation for best presentation and best paper, review committee assisted the entire sessions.

Later on Dr S Bhavani took over a session through a keynote address. Dr S Bhavani explained about the (0.1) 365 theory very well. The keynote address was followed by oral presentations by the student participants. There were 13 presentations under Technical session 3. All the presentations were based on the theme and subthemes given by the department.

Technical Session 4: The Technical session 4 opened with the welcome and introduction of two session chairs. The session had oral presentations by students and there were a total of 14 presentations. All the presentations were based on the theme and subthemes given by the department.

At the end Mounika S, Kanaka & Yakshith of VI Sem BSc(PCM) was announced as the best presenter and St. Francis de Sales College, Bangalore was announced as the best presenter at the end of the session. The participants were requested to submit the feedback form through the link provided through mail.