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OVERVIEW

Department of Science & Technology (DST),Govt.of India under its Intersectoral Science and Technology Advisory Committee(IS-STAC), has launched a programme for the participation of youth in acquiring , generating, using and disseminating realtime and scientific field data.The programme entitled "Participation of youth in Real-Time/Field Observations to Benifit Education" (PROBE), aims at making science education intersting and useful. It is envisaged to be a countrywide programme to be implemented in about 10,000 schools.

In the pilot phase, a Pilot Experiment is being taken up in one hundred schools in Uttaranchal. The central theme of the programme is mountain meteorlolgy and programme would be called Uttaranchal-PROBE or U-PROBE.Uttaranchal being a mountain state, the theme is appropriate and relevant.United Nations had proclaimed 2002 as International Year of Mountains(IYM).

Goals and Objectives of U-PROBE

To provide an opportunity for participatory and interactive learning for school children.

To bring schools, institutions of higher learning and grassroot community organisations into networking relationship.

To shift emphasis for a student from being a passive recipient of information and knowledge (i.e.downloading) to become an active author of relevant and useful information (i.e.Uploading).

To create a database on meteorology,climate,natural resources and related fields for building village/water shed level data infrastructure.

To generate data/gather information and convert such information into useful knowledge.

To contribute to scientific understanding of weather and climate in mountain regions and study their local impacts.

To use data/information gathering as a means of generating interest in science.

To help students in schools reach higher levels of achievement in science education.

To provide an opportunity for participatory and interactive learning for school children.	To bring schools, institutions of higher learning and grassroot community organisations into networking relationship.
To shift emphasis for a student from being a passive recipient of information and knowledge (i.e.downloading) to become an active author of relevant and useful information (i.e.Uploading).	To create a database on meteorology,climate,natural resources and related fields for building village/water shed level data infrastructure.
To generate data/gather information and convert such information into useful knowledge.	To contribute to scientific understanding of weather and climate in mountain regions and study their local impacts.
To use data/information gathering as a means of generating interest in science.	To help students in schools reach higher levels of achievement in science education.