by Jittin Mathew and Eustace Fernandes
MUMBAI, OCT 2, 2018: Twenty-five youth from Bosco Boys Home (BBH) participated in an educative session on the use of electronics, which was organised by students of Thakur College of Engineering and Technology, on September 29.
The objective was to provide the children with hands-on learning experience through small experiments, to familiarise them with electronic components and its outputs. The goal was to ignite passion and excitement in the young minds and develop their interest in the field of electronics.
The resource person for the workshop was Professor Lochan Jolly. She explained to the children what resistance is and how to measure it. She taught them about potentiometer, digital millimeter, the working of Light Emitted Diode (LED) circuit, working of LED circuit as the temperature sensor and the working of LED circuit as blown fuse indicator. She summed up the basic concepts of electronics.
Eleven student volunteers from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication helped her to conduct the free-of-cost session. After the workshop, there was a group discussion and the youth shared their experience about what they learned.
"It was nice to see the live demo on each subject and individual guidance by the team of Thakur College made the session easy and enjoyable. It was thrilling and exciting to do the demo by ourselves," Parshuram Poojari, a student of standard nine from BBH, said.
"We appreciate the efforts taken by the students and management of Thakur College of Engineering and Technology especially the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication and Professor Mrs. Lochan Jolly in organising a much-needed training programme for our children to update their knowledge on the topic related to scientific techniques and enhancing the capability of the young minds," Annie Dias, staff of BBH, said.
"Before the workshop, hardly few students were interested in learning electronics. But it was good to see that after the workshop many kids felt that electronics is very interesting and not boring. The session, especially with live demos, made the kids enjoy and thoroughly participate in the workshop," Professor Jolly, said.