Today is: National Science Day

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BASF recently sponsored Girl Powered - a hands-on workshop that introduced 71 ninth-grade females students from Ascension Parish's four high schools to careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
BASF recently sponsored Girl Powered - a hands-on workshop that introduced 71 ninth-grade females students from Ascension Parish's four high schools to careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

In 1986, India's National Council for Science and Technology Communication (NCSTC) asked the Government of India to designate Feb. 28 as National Science Day. First held in 1987, National Science Day marks the discovery of the Raman effect, also known as Raman scattering, which is a scattering of photons or a "change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules." Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata (C.V.) Raman, an Indian physicist who worked with light scattering, discovered the effect on Feb. 28, 1928. Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 for this work.

National Science Day aims to inform people of the importance of science in their daily lives.

Source: Checkiday.com

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