The District Science Park in Cuddalore serves just as a showcase.
CUDDALORE:
Not many students and teachers know that there exists a science park on the campus of the office of the Chief Educational Officer in Cuddalore. Occupying a vast space the park consists of objects delineating various concepts in physics subject. It is intended to teach the functioning of various devices, using the play-by-learn method.
The impressive periodic table greets the visitors to the park. There are objects such as pin-hole camera, simple camera, musical pipe, 3-D pendulum, revolving periscope, gravity ball, pulleys and so on. The principles of lever operation, gravitational pull that propels the oscillation of pendulum, how mass and weight, and mass and inertia could be ascertained, and how the magnitude of a plate could be arrived at are well defined. There is, of course, the universally known Newton's third law of motion (Every action has equal and opposite reaction) that the visitors will not miss. What is significant about the science park is that each concept is well defined and a supporting object is put up for easy understanding.
It is believed that even a single visit to the park would make the students grasp the concepts easily and commit them to memory. But what is disconcerting is that all the concepts are related to physics subject and explained in English. It defeats reason why in an educationally backward district like Cuddalore such a park should be entirely devoted to physics and that too in English. Chief Educational Officer C.Amudhavalli told this correspondent that the park was set up during 2005-06 at an expenditure of Rs. 5 lakh sanctioned under the Rashtriya Sam Vikas Yojana programme.
However, it was not formally inaugurated, and, having discerned its utilitarian value her predecessor (former CEO) R.Veerasamy kept it open for the school students. Ms. Amudhavalli further said that the park was now under the control of the Manjakuppam government higher secondary school. A part of the net-roofing put up in the park has come down and some of the objects need repair. A few curious students who enter the premises mistaking it for a regular park are baffled by the explanatory panels put up there. It is believed that the park can be of real value only when the students are taken there regularly and the explanatory notes are also put up in Tamil language.
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