(The Gist of PIB) Young Scientist Programme (YUVIKA) [APRIL-2019]

Young Scientist Programme (YUVIKA)

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has launched a special programme for School Children called “Young Scientist Programme” “YUva VIgyani KAryakram” from this year.
The Program is primarily aimed at imparting basic knowledge on Space Technology, Space Science and Space Applications to the younger ones with the intent of arousing their interest in the emerging areas of Space activities. ISRO has chalked out this programme to “Catch them young”.

The residential training programme will be of around two weeks duration during summer holidays and it is proposed to select 3 students each from each State/ Union Territory to participate in this programme covering state, CBSE, and ICSE syllabus.
Those who have just finished 9th standard (in the academic year 2018-19) and waiting to join 10th standard (or those who have started 10th Std just now) will be eligible for the programme. The selection will be based on the 8th Std marks.
A few seats are left for the programme from various states.
The interested students can register online from 25th March 2019 (1800 hrs) to 03rd April 2019 (1800 hrs). The selection is based on the academic performance and extracurricular activities. Students belonging to the rural areas have been given special weightage in the selection criteria.
The list of provisionally selected candidates from each state will be announced on 06th April 2019.
The provisionally selected candidates will be requested to send the supporting documents through Email to ISRO.
This Email ID will be intimated to selected candidates.
After verifying the relevant certificates the final list will be published on 13th April 2019.