lucknow who said that we need to educate children instead we need to learn from them this was stated by professor yash pal eminent scientist who is presiding over the 11th national childrens science congress the congress was inaugurated by the union minister of state for science and technology bacchi singh rawat he said we have surplus in terms of knowledge but we have not utilised it giving the example of the super computer he said when the western countries refused to provide super computers to india we took it as a challenge and succeeded in producing computers that have been acknowledged by the world lov verma chairperson ncsc organising committee said there was a need to encourage children who were interested in the field of science first scientist is a child since it he who puts forward most baffling questions said verma professor pal noted that elders usually overlook the obvious which is questioned by children they notice things that we dont he said children from across the country have come to the state capital to participate in the congress and make their project presentations there are about 700800 children participating in the congress which has its focal theme as food systems towards nutrition for all