Let me introduce you with someone-whom I would like to call the change maker. Lamiya Ashraf Mowla, who is originated from Bangladesh and now a doctoral student at Yale University, USA, came up with the plan to instill curiosity amongst all the young learners and life up their life. On 2013, she felt the necessity of outreaching science to every corner of the country, since the ratio of science students was decreasing in a large scale. And obviously, science is the key to development a country cannot prosper without the prosperity of science. So she shared her idea with three other leading personals- Lubna Mariam (Samaj Unnayan Sangstha), Sabreen (American Centre) and Mr. Arif Hossain (IER). Thus the journey started.

The goal of Bangladesh Science Outreach (BSO) is to instill curiosity in school children by introducing them to the exciting scopes of science and technology. The volunteers will be trained by the Institute of Education and Research to hone their teaching skills and become Mentors. Mentors will create innovative experiments and interactive popular science talks and demonstrate these at the classrooms of secondary schools around the country.

The objectives include:

=The talks and demonstration will foster a curiosity for science among the school students. The Mentor?s enthusiasm and passion will inspire the students to pursue higher education and encourage them to be more diligent and inquisitive. They will be inspired to learn through understanding and not through memorization, and be scientifically literate.

=Developing the workshops will allow the Mentors to explore their own creativity and create innovative techniques of science teaching. The training program organized by the IER will give them the opportunity to learn about teaching models and science education

=The Science Room created at each of the participating schools will enrich the science teaching resource of the school. The school teachers at the participating schools will be encouraged to adopt the teaching techniques developed during the program into their own teaching routine.

The organization is mainly supported by an NGO named Samaj Unayan Sanstha and recently The American Centre. For the guideline, Institute of Education and Research has lent its hand. The panel of advisors include- Prof. Md. Jafar Iqbal, Prof. Yasmeen Haque, Shahjahan Tapan, Arshad Momen, Lubna Marium, Prof. S M Hafizur Rahman, Associate Prof. Nure Alam Siddique. Initially there are 28volunteers, who are commonly named as Mentors and there are obviously administration wing, recruitment wing, research wing, workshop wing, school co-ordination wing etc. to provide more support.

By far, around 30worksdhops are held around the corners of the country and that?s just the beginning, pilot program which I mean. And there are so many things changed already. Workshops included guiding the talented students for farther care in their field of study up to grade 12. Some of the workshops showed the necessity of tracking formalin in food and the way to get rid of it, whereas some showed how to make a car with only a plastic bottle and some other low cost materials. And now, Bangladesh Science Outreach is going for long term plan, which includes more volunteers, more young learners to be motivated.

As I said, nothing is impossible if you take it as a challenge and make the impossible possible. And I believe within a short time Bangladesh Science Outreach will cover the whole country and make the young learners individually change makers.