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Hi Jiawen and other readers. First of all, it’s a great initiative taken by you to make a list of outreach activities as it will provide new ideas to us, how we can promote such activities.
My name is Prakshi and I am a Ph.D. student at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India. Every year our Institute organizes Science Open Day to make everyone aware, especially school students, of the kind of research community is doing and what the purpose is. All labs display their work through posters, presentations, and 3D models in a simplified version so that a person from a non-scientific background can also understand it. Working of certain instruments is also demonstrated so that they can experience what a researcher is doing, and how it is different from the textbooks. It is really a good experience for us to see students taking part in such activities enthusiastically, and I think it is imperative to organize such activities to make people aware about the science.
Thank you 🙂