Samagra Shiksha Nagaland under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) organised an exclusive exposure trip to Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, for 39 Science Students of Government Higher Secondary Schools with the aim to foster young minds and leverage the potential for science, mathematics and technology learning in non-classroom settings beyond the four walls of a classroom and provide opportunities for science, mathematics and technology learning abound.

Imchanok Jamir, Media and Communications Coordinator, Samagra Shiksha, Nagaland, informed that three students each from all districts, with a total of 39 students along with four teacher guides were selected for the trip with an objective to broaden their horizons, spark curiosity and inspire them to explore the wonders of science. The exposure trip took place from December 14th to December 17th, 2024 and involved various activities such as career counselling session by Prof. Ramesh Kumar Sonkar, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, interactive session on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence by Dr. Debanga Raj from DS and AI, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati. The students also had the opportunity to visit the Central Library, Computer and Communication Centre (Supercomputer), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati.

Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) is primarily focused to enable children to become motivated and engaged in Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) through observation, experimentation, inference drawing, model building, rational reasoning, testability etc and also to create curiosity, excitement and exploration among school children in Science, Mathematics and Technology and to create a culture of thinking, inventing, tinkering and doing to promote inquiry based learning in Schools. Likewise, the exposure trip was organised by Samagra Shiksha Nagaland under Rashtriya Avishkar Abhiyan (RAA) with the core goal of promoting and fostering Scientific temper.