MSE has been the first service of the centre to reach to people in remote areas, particularly to the students. Especially designed bus, with 24 exhibits was put into the service.
The journey of the MSE bus had been continuing for past 25 years. The MSE has till now travelled around 42,000 kilometres- kms in various remote villages, hilly and desert geographical locations of northern India to reach to more than 2,00,000 audience. The Centre has one Mobile Science exhibition on the
Students and public in urban areas have more opportunities to visit nearest science Centreand participate in the activities whereas students and public in remote areas do not haveaccess to such facilities.A package was thus designed for such events where a small truck reached to the site. The programme is popularly known as “Science Festival”.The components of a typical Science Festival are portable exhibits, Telescope, science demonstrations, inflatable planaterium and training programme for students or teachers. With publicity by local authority, the crowd is pulled to the site.
The Centre also offers tailor made activities and programmes as per the need of the requesting organisations, Universities, NGOs, IITs, schools etc. The Centre has reached around two million audience through various outreach programmes. The Centre in the past 25 years have established itself as a brand in the mindset of its regular audience, communities, scientific organisation, NGOs. Through outreach programmes the Centre has woven a long term relationships and establishing strong community ties, understanding their need to design the outreach programme, which in turn, can encourage more people to visit the Centre. The association and the journey of kindling masses with scientific temper are continuing.Pls consult the attached document
