Behrampura Kids Explore Science City

Every so often throughout the evening on July 8, a shout to “get back into your numbered line!!� could be heard throughout Ahmedabad’s Science City exploration park. 17 kids, ages 4-16, would scamper anxiously back into a misshapen line, reeling with excitement. Thanks to the relentlessness of Indicorps Fellow Shaila Parikh (August 06), for three hours, science and learning came alive for a group of kids who don’t often get the chance to touch, smell, run and explore the world of learning. The children are residents of the community Shaila has been living in and working with over the past ten months. Every week, three times a week, the kids come together for an interactive education course in which Shaila brings reading, science, math and their community to life for the kids. A group of these kids, a few chaperones from the community, Shaila and Indicorps staff member Archana Patel spent the evening on Sunday running through the energy park, learning about forms of matter and watching an IMAX movie on space exploration. Highlights for the kids included a slide-turned-treadmill that demonstrated concepts of force and played music when enough friction was created, a human hamster wheel and a series of fountains and watermills that showed the force of water.