SHREE VELAGAPUDI RAMA KRISHNA MEMORIAL COLLEGE

NAGARAM – 522268, GUNTUR (DIST), ANDHRA PRADESH

Report of the DST – SEATS – INSPIRE Programme

INTERNSHIP SCIENCE CAMP

Held from 20-12-2011 to 24-12-2011 (5 Days Work Shop)

COURSE CONTENT AND STRUCTURE OF COURSE MODULE

A five day workshop sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (DST)

was organized by Shree Velagapudi Ramakrishna Memorial College, Nagaram, Guntur

(Dist.) Andhra Pradesh during 20-12-2011 to 24-12-2011. This workshop was an

important opportunity to bring out the discussions about the ongoing research works of

various Science fields. The important aim of discussions was to Inspire the Intermediate

Science students towards Science subjects. This will help the nation to attract more

students to science and hence to research purpose. Eminent personalities and Scientists

opened the workshop. It was attended by 150 participants, the Intermediate students of

Science stream from various Jr. colleges in and around Nagaram of Guntur and Prakasam

(Dists.)

Sri BurraRatnaRaju, Principal and Sri M. SudhakaraRaoH.O.D of Chemistry Department

acted as the Convenor and Organizing Secretary of the INSPIRE – SEATS Programme.

Inaugural Function

The Inaugural session was initiated by the Chief Guest Dr. V.S. Rao, Director, BITS

Pilani, Hyderabad Campus who highlighted the aims of the INSPIRE Programme. He also

inspired the participants by taking the eight point oath formed by Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam

former president of India photographs and models related to suggested broad themes of

Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Mathematics were displayed and they were much

attracted by the participants. The inaugural session was also attended by Prof. G. Prasad,

Registrar, A.N.U. Prof. S. K. Dogra, IGNOU, New Delhi , Sri K. SambasivaRao, O.S.D., S.V.R.M.

College, Nagaram and Sri BurraRatnaRaju, Principal, S.V.R.M. College, Nagaram. All this

eminent personalities spoke on different topics related to INSPIRE (SEATS) programme

and they gave valuable suggestions to the students and other participants.

KEY NOTE ADDRESS

The Keynote address was delivered by Dr. S. Mohan, Director NITTTR, Chennai who spoke

anBiomimicry – Growing Green with Nature. He said that Biomimicry as a concept is based

on the belief that we can find solutions to all our needs as passengers on planet earth by

learning from the plants, animals and natural process that are all around us. He focused his

lecture on the History of Biomimicry and gave live examples like the Tokay gecko’s a lizard

type creature, which climbs vertical surfaces.

Day – I (20-12-2011)

Talk : 1

Prof. S.K. Dogra, IGNOU, New Delhi, gave a lecture on “Physical Chemistry concepts through

Problems” He highlighted the dimension analysis with examples like the simplest constant

can be Plank’s constant, h; units of h; Dimensions of h etc. other important constant he

focused is GAS CONSTANT R. he also explained the thermodynamic quantities in lecture.

Talk : 2 Another lecture on “Innovation in Pharmaceutical

Industry” delivered by Dr. B. Gopalan, CSO Orchid Research

Laborites, Chennai contrasted what is creativity and innovation.

He told about the novel innovations of eminent scientists of the

world. Later, he focused his lecture on Drug Discovery Research

and Told about the development of novel drug delivery systems.

Talk : 3

Next talk was presented by Prof. M. Ramachandra Mohan, Bangalore University, Bangalore

on “Urgency of Rehabilitative Measures for Down Stream water bodies of magadi hill

ranges” In this lecture Dr. Mohan mentioned about the innumerable inland water resources

of India particularly of Karnataka. He said that Uncoordinated planning development and

management of water resources greatly increases health risks. He also mentioned the

different systems of water use like surface flows, ground water etc.

Talk : 4

Next talk on “Mathematics from Nature” was delivered by Prof. P. Kanda Swamy,

Bharatiar University, Coimbatore. He quoted “Many mathematical principals are based on

ideals and apply to an abstract, perfect world”. He also explained the importance of series

numbers and Fibonacci etc.

Day – II (21-12-2011)

Talk : 1

Dr. Mannem Krishna Murthy, Varsity Education Management Limited, Hyderabad gave a

lecturer on “Earth materials” In his speech he mentioned the uses of limestone. He said that

lime stone is made of calcium carbonate which is available in various minerals. He also

mentioned commercial production of Ammonia, Ethanol, etc. he further spoke about

Cement which is produced by heating powdered limestone and clay.

Talk : 2

Second talk on “Limitation of the Knowledge of time” delivered by Dr. B. Satyanarayana,

ANU, Guntur he said that negative numbers were not in the realm of Babylonian

mathematicians. He gave different examples on Hamilton Quantum. He concluded his

speech by saying that mathematics is an open – ended subject.

Talk : 3

The next speech was addressed by Sri K. SambasivaRao, O.S.D., S.V.R.M. College, Nagaram

on “Nature’s Role in Biological Control” he started his speech by saying that nature is the

best expert or manager, in the sense of balancing the non-living and living matter. He told

the differences between organic and non-organic matters. Later, he told about the inter

changeable biological reactions by giving examples on photosynthesis and respiration

reactions. He further told about the role of nature in maintaining biodiversity through food

chain and the role of nature in the control of population.

Talk : 4

The last talk was given by Prof. S.K. Dogra, IGNOU, New Delhi on “Intermolecular Forces”

Prof. Dogra started his speech by asking various questions on “Intermolecular Forces”. He

said that when temperature is raised, heat energy is supplied to the system which increases

kinetic or translation energy of the molecules and thus moves with increased volcity. He

further explained what is dipole and induced dipole attraction. He mentioned later about

the Ionic bond, lattice energy, conditions of electrical conductivity etc.

PRACTICAL SESSION

In Physics practical session Dr. M. Krishna Murthy, demonstrated experiments

related to Chemistry laboratory, a practical session – “Separation of Amino acids by paper

chromatography” was conducted. In Life Sciences laboratory, DNA isolation by Gel

Electrophoresis seperatio of Pigments by Paper choromatography by Sri K. Sambasiva

Rao.

WALK – TALK

We played Science Videoson NASA & Bigbangand as a walk-in-talk session,

interaction between the participants and Prof. S.K. Dogra, Dr. M. Krishna Murthy,

Sri K. Sambasiva Rao, and the staff members of our college Physics and Chemistry

departments was held.

Day – III (22-12-2011)

Talk : 1

Prof. A.K. Kapoor, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad delivered a lecture on “Silicon and

its compounds in daily life” he gave introduction to what is silicone and its compounds. He

explained the properties of Silicon, in what way it is important to plants and how it

contributes to form sand. Pure silicon is used in the manufacture of electronic devices like

chipping, LCDs, thin – films; Solar Cells, and lastly used Silicon in Alloy wheels motor car

industry.

Talk : 2

Dr. K. Ravindra Kumar, Sri Chaitanya IIT Academy, Hyderabad, gave a lecture on “Physics of

Running”. In his speech he pointed out the velocity or speed of the famous Olympic athlete.

Usian Bolt popularly known as lightning bolt. He derived the formula for speed from the

physical laws and got the value of the power by comparing the empiscal formula with

derived one. Lastly he explained Olympiad Exam.

Talk : 3

The third talk on the third day was delivered by Dr. Manned Krishna Murthy on “Subjective

and objective orientation in learning” In his speech he brought about the various

differences in child education and matured education. Later he told about subject

orientation and objective orientation. He told about listening, reading , writing and

speaking skills. He further explained the types of objective testing, teaching requirements,

typical objective questions.

Talk : 4

The last talk was addressed by Dr. A. Anjaneyulu on “Graph Theory and its Applications” He

began his speech by giving definition for linear graph. He told about parallel Edges multiple

edges, simple graph, general graphs, Koingsberg Bridges problem, utilities problem,

seating arrangement problem, types of graphs etc. and also gave examples for all of them.

He further explained real numbers.

PRACTICAL SESSION

In Physics practical session Prof. A.K. Kapoor, UOH, Hyderabad

demonstrated experiments related to Optics and Luminescence. In chemistry

PracticalsSpectrophotometric ,PHMetric titrations and Conductometrictitrations.

In life sciences laboratories Fossil impressional of Angiosperms and their

formation, evolution tree regarding Angiosperms Museum Specimans-

observation of some economic interestClassification of Bryophyta and

pteridophyta with examples and plant physiology experiments anatomy slides

observation demonstration by Dr. K. Ravindra Kumar, Dr. M. Krishma Murhty

& Sri K. Sambasiva Rao

WALK – TALK

In walk-in-talk session interaction between the participants and Prof.

A.K. Kapoor, Dr. K. Ravindra Kumar, Dr. M. Krishna Murthy & Sri K.

Sambasiva Rao and the staff members of our college Physics, Chemistry& Biology

departments was held.

Day – IV (23-12-2011)

Talk : 1

The first talk on fourth day was address by Dr. S. Shivaji, CCMB, Hyderabad on “Bacterial

Biodiversity of Antarctica and Stratosphere Via The Indian Ocean” he started his by saying

about “Extremophiles and Thermophiles” later he said that how for Ice covers in the fifth

largest continent “Antarctica”. He showed the pictures of the scientists who explored in

Antarctica. The explorers from India who went to Antarctica were shown. The minerals,

animals, birds living in Antarctica were mentioned.

Talk : 2

Next lecture was delivered by Sri G. HanumanthaRao, Lecturer in Mathematics S.V.R.M.

College, Nagaram on “Fuzzy set theory – some applications”. He explained that one of the

recently developed branches of Algebra is “Fuzzy set Theory” Dr. Rao gave definition for

“Fuzzy set theory” its concepts, application, development of Fuzzy set theory, operations in

Fuzzy sets, its sub-groups, Fuzzy sub-modules, corollary and its proof, converse etc.

Talk : 3

Next talk was given on “The Beginning of Quantum Mechanics” by Prof. N. Veeraiah,

Krishna University, Machilipatnam. Prof. N. Veeraiah began his speech by mentioning the

pioneers of Quantum Mechanics, like Max Planck, Einstein, NielsBohar, Compton,

Heisenberg, de Broglie etc. He told about how Black body radiation, Wien’s displacement

Law, the Rayleigh – jeans Law. He further said about Planck’s Quantum radiation law;

Bohr’s Atomic Spectra and some photo electric effect line spectra etc. later he told about de

Broglie’s Waves, the uncertainty principle, the wave function the postulate of quantum

mechanics, the Schrodinger’s Equations etc.

Talk : 4

The last lecturer was given by Prof. K. Gopalan, NGRI, Hyderabad on “Age of the Earth” he

mentioned that it has been fascinating to know how old the Earth is” He brought forth the

time managing devices like clock or chronometer. He said that according to biblical view

the Earth was created in 4004 BC, that is 6015 year ago, though it is unrealistic. He gave

various formulas to know the Age of Earth.

PRACTICAL SESSION

In Physics practical session Prof. N. Veeraiah, Krishna University, Machilipatnam

demonstrated experiments related to Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism. In Chemistry

laboratory, a practical – “Separation of Amino acids by paper chromatography” was

conducted. In Life Sciences laboratory, DNA isolation by Gel Electrophoresis seperatio of

Pigments by Paper choromatography by Dr. S. Sivaji & Prof. K. Gopalan.

WALK – TALK

Walk-in-talk session, interaction between the participants and Prof. N. Veeraiah,

Dr. S. Sivaji & Prof. K. Gopalan and the staff members of our college Physics, Chemistry &

Biology departments was held.

Day – V (24-12-2011)

Talk : 1

The third lecture was delivered by Prof. K. SambasivaRao, IIT, Mumbai on “Macro

Molecules” Prof. Rao defined what are polymers and the word was coined in 1833 by Jons

Jacob Berzelius. He said that Macro molecules are big molecular formed from a large

number of small molecules. The big molecules are known as polymers plastics are derived

from polymers. Later he mentioned the types of polymerization. He showed the structures

of polymers etc. He also explained Nylon, and how if is used in various products.

Talk : 2

Prof.K. Lakshmi Narayana, Director, Sindhur Institute of Technology, Siddipet.gavea

video presentation on the law of attraction and water boiled at 212 degrees. He also

showed the generation of electricity through mechanical energy with different models.

Talk : 3

The first talk on day 5 was delivered by Sri K. SambasivaRao, O.S.D. S.V.R.M. College,

Nagaram on “Plant Tissue Culture”. He mentioned in the beginning what is Tissue culture

and defined it. Next he explained the methodology of tissue culture and the advantages of

tissue culture. Later he brought out the types of plant tissue culture like callus culture, cell

culture, organ culture, meristem culture and protoplaste culture.

Talk : 4

The last talk Delivered by Dr M.V.

SubbaRao Ex-Principal S.V.R.M.College,

Nagaram & Ex-Municipal Chairmen –

Repalle, Guntur (Dt). He was Worked

Physics lecturer in S.V.R.M College, Last

30 years. He inspired the participantswith

his valuable Lecture

VALEDICTORY SESSION

The valedictory session was attended by Prof. K. Sambasiva Rao, Dept. of Chemistry,

IIT, Mumbai act as a Chief Guest of the function. Prof. K. Lakshmi Narayana, Director SIT,

Siddepet and Prof. K.R.S. Sambasiva Rao, Biotechnology, ANU, Guntur were also present as

guests of honour. Our college Secretary and Correspondent Sri A.D.L. Prasad was acted as

president of the function. In this valedictory function the mathematics book was released

by Honourable guests. The Chief Guest and Guest of honours was inspired the students

with their speeches on the importance of science in the day to day life. They distributed

certificates and material to the participants. Lastly Sri S. Dass, Lecturer in English

extended the vote of thanks.

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