Bhopal, Children of government schools in Bhopal surprised people by performing amazing feats. Small children launched rockets at some places and soft landed Chandrayaan at other places. All this was done on the occasion of National Space Day.

Actually, this time Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology (Mapcast) is organizing a series of programmes at different places on the occasion of Space Day.

Under this, attraction and interest towards space science and rocketry was created among the students on Friday. Indian Space Day was celebrated in Government Naveen Higher Secondary Chunabhatti School and Sarojini Naidu Government Girls College with the support of Madhya Pradesh Council of Science and Technology and Water Resources Department. Children of government schools celebrated National Space Day by launching rockets and soft landing Chandrayaan. In this program, in the first phase, in the inaugural session at the Government Naveen Higher Secondary Chunabhatti School, as a guest, the Principal Scientist of MP Science and Technology Council, Vikas Shende, explained the importance of the Indian Chandrayaan 3 program and the difficulties in achieving this goal, and how the Indian Space Research Organization successfully achieved this global achievement. After this, as an expert, Shailendra Kasera organized a Chandrayaan soft landing competition for the children to experimentally understand the problems faced in soft landing, in which the school designed and made a lander model of Chandrayaan from common household items around and a soft landing competition was held for all Chandrayaan lander models, in which the lander designed and made by the girl students successfully soft landed. Along with this, a painting and essay competition was also organized on topics like India's glorious history of space. The main attraction of this program was the launch of a water rocket, in which children made rockets from water bottles, which gave the children a chance to closely understand model rocketry by doing it themselves. This program was coordinated by Rashmi Nayak under the direction of Mamta Sharma. In which children got an opportunity to understand India's development journey in Indian space science experimentally. In this program, all the teachers including Anita Dhote, Neeta Patel along with school students enjoyed this interesting program on space science. Council's senior technical officer Dr. Sunil Garg was also present in the program.

In the second phase of the program, quiz and essay competitions were organized in Sarojini Naidu Government Girls College, in which about 200 girl students participated. Through essays, the girls expressed their views on the growing steps of Indian space science. The programs were coordinated by Dr. Kusum Mathur. On this occasion, the Council's Principal Scientist Vikas Shende gave a lecture in the context of the Indian space program.