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Children take part in a drawing competition at Angelics High School in Guwahati on Sunday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Robotics umlimited
The recently concluded workshop on robotics at the NETES Institute of Technology and Science (NITS), Mirza was intended as an introduction to the practical side of engineering through the use of robotics as a teaching mechanism.
NETES, or Northeast Technological Society, is a group supported by the All-India Council for Technical Education.
The monthlong workshop was conducted from June 15 by people with extensive experience in robotics and embedded design. The students were chosen on merit and came from most of the prominent local colleges and especially from engineering colleges.
The first phase of the workshop focused primarily on basic electronics, since the participants’ collective knowledge in this area was quite weak. Rather than teach them theory, the authorities got the participants to “learn by doing”. Each of them made an ultrasonic range finder. The first phase ended with the participants gaining excellent functional knowledge of basic electronics design implements.
The second phase of the workshop covered the use of micro-controllers in robotics. A part of the time was spent understanding how to manipulate this complex device. To facilitate rapid testing, the participants made development boards with the micro-controllers and since these were tailored to specific needs, they were better than any other tool.
The workshop ended with the successful completion of all the projects.

Volunteers attend the training programme

The training programme was held at District Institute of Elementary Training (Diet) at Golokganj, Dhubri Jawahar Hindi High School and Dhubri open-air theatre complex at children’s park.
These trained community volunteers will serve in single teacher schools for the benefit of slow learners, beginning this summer vacation till March 2010.
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The North East Regional Centre of Indian Council of Historical Research organised a lecture on Same Images/Different Interpretations: Samuel Perrine’s Visual Presentation of the Nagas in the department of biotechnology, Gauhati University, on July 17.
Geraldine Forbes, a distinguished professor from the history department of State University of New York, delivered the lecture.
Her presentation dealt with the account and photographs of Samuel Alden Perrine, a Baptist missionary in Nagaland from 1892-1906.