20 budding astronomers to visit premier facilities of ISRO

New Delhi: The Chief Minister of Odisha Naveen Patnaik felicitated top 20 winners of the 11th Edition of Young Astronomer Talent Search (YATS) Programme-2017-18. The Winners of YATS will get an opportunity to visit one of the premier facilities of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
The 11th Edition of YATS witnessed participation of more than 32000 students from 300 schools, spread over 30 districts of Odisha. The competition was based on the theme ‘Celebrating achievements of India in space science’ which included topical writing and quiz competitions on various aspects of India’s space programme.
Congratulating participants and winners, T.V.Narendran, CEO & Managing Director, Tata Steel said, "We have multiple programmes to engage with students of Schools and Colleges in Odisha which give them platforms to express their thoughts, ideas and benefit from knowledge sharing."
On the ocassion, Naveen Patnaik also felicitated a young achiever from Odisha, Dr Susmita Mohanty, Co-Founder & CEO, Earth2Orbit, a spaceship designer and serial space entrepreneur on a global platform.
Badri Narayan Patra, Minister, School and Mass Education, Science & Technology, said, "we look forward to more youth from our State take on different roles in leadership; towards this, it merits that they be given proper exposure in different fields including science, sports and allied streams of education and YATS could be the launchpad for emerging space scientists from Odisha."