trichy a 15day residential training programme began in trichy on monday to motivate children to pursue science and research the programme is sponsored by tamil nadu state council for science technologya total of 80 students all from class ix from trichy and karur districts are participating in the young student scientists program yssp 2018 at national college here organisers said that subjects like biotechnology and nanotechnology would be introduced for the students so that they could get idea and decide whether to opt it for higher education the students are from both government and private schools and have been selected by the respective school administrations and the school education department based on their academic and other performancesover the course of the training the students would be made to pursue laboratory experiments come up with scientific models learn ham radio operations and would also be taken for industrial visits according to viceprincipal of national college a t ravichandran the main domains in which the students would be trained are physics chemistry botany zoology geology computer science mathematics and biotechnology while in the mornings the students would be made to attend guest lectures the afternoon sessions would be for performing experiments in laboratories ravichandran added students have been shortlisted in a manner that ensures equal representation from rural and urban areas he said he added that prime focus would be on making students come up with scientific models on which they could pursue research in the future an initiative of this kind is happening after a while in trichy right from fields like nanotechnology to biotechnology all topics would be touched upon for the students so that they would be encouraged to pick sciencerelated courses in college he added