“IEEE-EUREKA-2020 AN ONLINE INTERACTION OF ENGINEERING STUDENTS WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUENTS”

EEE Pune section organized an event called “IEEE-EUREKA 2020” for the students of engineering colleges. The event was conducted on 17, 18 and 19 November 2020 in ONLINE mode. These are purely knowledge sharing sessions where engineering students had taken the sessions to high school students in the areas of Agriculture, Healthcare, Education, Sports, Women Empowerment and Disaster management etc in ONLINE mode. The main aim of this program is to raise the National High school literacy level by using College youth as ‘Ambassadors of Education’.

The major objectives of the event are:

• To expose high school students to advanced state of art technologies.
• Motivate high school students to pursue higher studies in Science and Technology.
• Provide an opportunity for college students to interact with high school students at urban and rural schools and share their knowledge in advanced technologies.
• Encourage girl students in high schools for higher education thus promoting gender equality.

A total of 12 teams from the college have participated in this program. The team consisting of One IEEE Student member, one girl student, and the remaining Non-IEEE students. A total of 965 high school students from 50 different high schools (Both rural and urban) of the Udupi district participated in this useful program. The benefit of the program is School students and teachers were exposed to advanced state-of-the-art technologies and also School teachers/authorities can establish contact with IEEE for future technological activities.