With a view to encourage, popularise and inculcate scientific temper among its more than 12 lakh children, KVS organises Annual Science Exhibition (Rashtriya Bal Vaigyanik Pradarshani) at three different levels. On NCSC, children showcase their talents and discuss the application of Science and Mathematics in different areas related to everyday life.

In order to develop critical thinking about various national and global issues to maintain healthy and sustainable societies, children in the KVS ecosystem are provided opportunities to present their original scientific ideas through the platform of the National Children Science Congress and Inspire Manak Awards.

NCSC

In KVS, NCSC is implemented in three phases, i.e., School level, Regional level and National level. At Regional level, 300-400 Child Scientists from various Kendriya Vidyalayas present their projects. About 450 outstanding innovative projects are further selected from 25 Regions to participate in the KVS National Level. KVS, a state with 42 exemplary projects, participates in the National Level NCSC in which 28 States, 8 Union territories and 9 Gulf countries participate.

KVS selects 42 exemplary and promising projects out of 449 creative and innovative projects from 25 regions, including three CSWN category projects, for further participation at the National Level NCSC.

INSPIRE Award

The ‘Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research’ (INSPIRE) scheme is one of the flagship programmes of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India. The INSPIRE Awards, MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspirations and Knowledge), is executed by DST with the National Innovation Foundation of India (NIF), an autonomous body of DST. It aims to motivate students in the age group of 10-15 years studying in classes 6 to 10. The objective of the scheme is to target one million original ideas/innovations rooted in science and societal applications to foster a culture of creativity and innovative thinking among school children.

During the session 2022-23, 3671 students from Kendriya Vidyalayas across the country submitted their best ideas in the INSPIRE Awards MANAK portal. 710 Students were selected for District Level Exhibition & Project Competition (DLEPC). Further, 08 best projects were selected through the KVS State Level Exhibition & Project Competition (SLEPC) held online from 08.02.2023 to 09-02-2023. These projects participated in the National Level Exhibition & Project Competition (NLEPC) for the session 2021-22. Moreover, 01 project titled ‘Partial Inversion Table for Aged and Lower Back Pain’ prepared by Master Sugali Yashas Kumar of KV RWF Yelahanka, Bengaluru was placed in top 60 projects all over India in 9th NLEP conducted by DST, New Delhi.In order to boost student’s attitude of logical and national thinking Lab activities are regularly conducted for various classes. It encourage scientific curiosity, critical thinking and lead to easy learning of concept.