‘YUVIKA- 2022’:  1L students apply for ISRO’s training program; only 150 make to final list

More than one lakh students have applied for a residential training programme of the Indian Space Research Organisation,

Only 150 lucky ones have made it to the ‘Yuva VIgyani Karyakram’ (YUVIKA-2022) final list. The programme is being conducted by ISRO from May 16 to May 28. 

The training is organized at five centers of ISRO — Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, UR Rao Satellite Centre, Bengaluru, Space Applications Centre, Ahmedabad, National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, and North Eastern Space Applications Centre, Shillong.

The programme includes classroom lectures, hands-on activities, interaction with eminent scientists, lab/facility visits, sky gazing, robotic assembly, and ‘Cansat’ experiments, according to an ISRO statement.

All the students will be taken to SDSC SHAR — Sriharikota, the spaceport of India, for a visit and face-to-face interaction with ISRO chairman S Somanath.

“Around one lakh students applied for the programme. Finally, 150 students were selected based on their academic scores and achievements in other co-curricular activities”, ISRO said.

Somanath inaugurated YUVIKA-2022 in a virtual event on Monday.

Addressing the gathering, Somanath urged the students to fully utilize the opportunity to interact with the senior scientists and technocrats whom they are going to meet in the next two weeks.

He also explained to the students about the vast opportunities and domains like engineering, astrophysics, astrobiology, mathematics, material science, chemistry, and computer science which are integral parts of space technology “but are not known to people.