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• Who we are
• Past Activities
• Future Activities
• Joining and Signing-up for events
  • Joining the WhatsApp Group
  • Link for Events </aside>

Who we are

The Science Club has five goals:

• Appreciation: To develop an appreciation for the sciences and their influence in our daily lives.
• Cultivation: To cultivate scientific temper, critical thinking, and the habit to question the world around us.
• Facilitation: To facilitate a problem-solving mindset via the organization of fun activities and events with the aim of learning and exploration in a stress-free manner.
• Community: To bring to focus the importance of community in science by providing a platform where individuals from both STEM and non-STEM backgrounds can come together to understand and enjoy science in a community-driven manner by developing an atmosphere of open discussion which promotes the exchange of ideas, knowledge, and opinions in an accessible manner between peers and faculty alike.
• Realization: We envision a club where science is taken out of the textbook/classroom and put into action in the real world, thereby bringing to light its role as a bridge between us and the natural world.

Past Activities

• In the club’s founding year (completely offline), the members built a Tesla Coil and demonstrated the Van de Graaf Generator.
• In the club’s second year (completely online), the club mainly hosted student-led talks and discussions over Zoom sessions.
• Our student-led talks/discussions were held by any interested members of The Science Club and topics have included:
  • The recently released image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy
  • Bioluminescent organisms
  • An introduction to RSA cryptography
  • A cursory introduction to astrophysics.
• We ended the last academic year (partially online and offline) with
  • An Integration Bee
    • A competition where people are pit against each other to solve integrals from calculus in the same style as MIT’s yearly integration bee contest
  • Multiple stargazing/planet hunting sessions in collaboration with the Physics faculty using the Physics lab’s Dobsonian telescope.
    • The slots were limited on a priority basis with priority given to club members
  • The Intro to ‘x’ major in science series
    • A series of talks + discussion sessions where the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th year declared science majors present their academic experiences to the 1st years in order to help the latter make a more informed decision about their major selection.

Future Activities

• We will continue to organize regular stargazing sessions this year as well.
  • We are collaborating with the Physics faculty to find suitable dates and times (weather permitting) to organize these sessions.
• We plan to collaborate with the Media Lab to have interactive sessions involving science simulations and video games running on the Media Lab’s state-of-the-art VR and 4K rendering technology.
• We plan to organize a comprehensive collaborative project involving the entire science club member body and all disciplines of science in the vein of KREA’s interwoven ideology.
  • We as a club will attempt to design/build something that upon completion will be used for the benefit of the KREA community and environment, either directly or indirectly.
  • All science club members regardless of their interests or background will be able to contribute.
• We are collaborating with the Bio/Envs professors (and possibly the Nature and Outdoors club) to organize a couple of biodiversity walks inside and outside KREA
  • A lot of our profs are adept at catching snakes and other creatures and identifying a diverse set of flora and fauna.
  • They are keen on sharing their skill set with our members.
• We are collaborating with the Physics, Chem and Bio professors and respective lab technicians to organize experiments and demonstrations that members can conduct and take part in.