Practice:Trial AND

This is a trial. I am showing stuff to Subhash.

=Acharya Narendra Dev College= (University of Delhi)

Proposal to set up a Pilot ‘Centre for Promotion of Undergraduate Research & Training’Italic text (CPURT)

BACKGROUND
Acharya Narendra Dev College is a premier college of University of Delhi, fully funded by the Government of NCT of Delhi. Despite being only 17 years old, it has been recognised for its excellent teaching – the University results of students stand testimony to this. We have a vibrant and dedicated faculty and with good support from the non-teaching staff and students we are able to set our goals high. The vision we have for the college is for it to be recognised as a centre for excellence in academics and research.

We believe that good science can only take place in an atmosphere conducive to innovation, where students are provided experiences of ‘what it means to practice science’. Students need to be exposed to ‘real research’ if they have to enjoy science with all the scope it provides for creativity and the challenges it poses to the curious mind. The National Knowledge Commission working group on 'Retention of students in Science and Mathematics' arrived at a consensus that though it is well known that it was important to nurture students' curiosity and to expose them to hands-on science, school children and undergraduates get little opportunity to go beyond the set syllabi and do any creative experiments. As a member of the above committee, the Principal of the College strongly believes that ‘science’ cannot be just learnt, it has to be practised – and students have to be provided opportunities to practice it. The faculty of the college also supports this view and we have taken several steps towards that end.

1.1	Workshops for Students
In the process of encouraging students to go beyond the syllabus and learn things not because they had to but because they’ wanted to’, the Electronics Department of the college has been conducting hands-on workshops for students in order to give them opportunities to apply their theoretical knowledge to ‘hands on’ projects. The electronics lab is one of the ‘always alive’ spaces in college where students and teachers alike are