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Tell us about Pillalamarri District
Science Forum?
As a co-founder and General
Secretary of Pillalamarri District
Science Forum, a non-profit or-
ganization since 2005, I have
been organizing numerous activ-
ities under the motto "Donate
your leisure time and money" in
order to foster a scientific attitude
and temperament among stu-
dents and teachers at government
schools.

What are your contributions to
science?
I have established Dr. Kalam Science Mr. T.N. Sridhar and his students with former President of India Sri. Pranab Mukherjee
Lab on the terrace of my house under
the ageis of Dream Force Foundation nent labs to visit classrooms and en-
with a seed money of 10 lakhs from my gage with children from various
earnings. This lab is open to all, the main schools in the area. I created a life-
aim of the lab is to infuse scientific skills kit that fosters household repair
temperament among the students and abilities with the help of the District
citizens. I encourage students to take Collector and presented it to other
part enthusiastically in INSPIRE, NCSC schools as well. I also organized nu-
and JNNSMEE. Apart from these,I merous groups and created an alumni
organise Educational tour to North association to raise money for the
India every year. During the tour, I school, mobilized to raise about Rs.
facilitate my students to meet the 25 lakhs and invited a number of mo-
President of India and interact with tivational figures to participate in in-
him/her and get inspiration. teractive sessions with students to
motivate them. In addition, I con- Mr. T.N. Sridhar and his students celebrating Children's Day
How did your organizing activities ducted online classes and demonstra- with former President of India Sri. Ramnath Kovind
help the students? tions during lockdown to keep the
students in touch with my subject, Academy, Tech Mahindra Founda- Fair 2009, and special jury award in
I organized visits to many presti- and provided financial, social and tion Award for innovative teaching 2011 and was selected for National
gious labs like NIN, IICT, NGRI, RCI, moral help to many poor and physi- methodology, and State level Best Workshop for Utsahi Physics Teach-
CCMB, Birla Science Centre and cally challenged students. Teacher award from the Government ers in 2017.I also bagged state-level
Planetarium and SDSC-SHAR to stu- of Telangana in 2017 are some of my best teacher innovator award and
dents and science teachers. I organ- What are your other achievements? prized achievements. I also received Intinta Innovator by Telangana State
ized a summer residential 11-day pro- an award from National Teacher Sci- Innovation Cell in 2019.
gram every year for class X students I received National Award to ence Congress 2018 for my research I received recognition at National
with the help of donors and made the Teachers 2022 by Government of In- paper on joyful learning with self-col- INSPIRE and was chosen for the 2017
students understand hard concepts dia, Silver medal in National level Sci- lected material. I was a Special Pub- and 2018 Festival of Innovation as well
of science with hands-on experimen- ence Techno Festival, Transforming lisher in 2007, ISRO and won special as the SAKURA Japan science ex-
tation. I mobilized scientists of emi- Educator Award 2022 by Science cash award at Southern India Science change programme. In 2017, 2018, and
2019, my students were chosen for the
India International Science Festival.
I also received Gandhi Global Family's
State-level Science Seva Ratna Award,
Gandhi Gyan Prathistan 2020's State-
level and District-level Best Teacher
Awards, and others' State and District-
level Best Teacher Awards.

What is your message to parents and
community?

Join your children in government
schools as they are the best. As a chal-
lenge to the private schools in my vil-
lage, I conducted a Quality Test to
demonstrate practically how much
better government school kids fared
than those in private institutions. By
this time, enrollment had dramati-
cally risen, and the private school had
Mr. T. N. Sridhar receiving National Award for his innovative teaching finally closed.
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