Beyond the campus gates

Outreach

A fest that runs for three days is a poor excuse for a year of nothing. Outreach is the part of Anvesha that keeps going after the halls are packed up — mostly in schools that have never had a working lab.

Last cycle2025—26
148
Schools reached
11,200
Students, last cycle
340
Student volunteers
9
Districts covered
Programmes6 running
01
School Lab Days
Year-round

We take a full day of experiments into a school that has no lab of its own. Everything is done with equipment the school can afford to keep.

02
The Mobile Lab
Monthly

A converted bus carrying microscopes, a small optics bench and a portable planetarium. It parks wherever the roads allow.

03
Mentorship Circles
Aug — Mar

Undergraduates mentor Class 9—12 students through one research question across a full academic year, start to write-up.

04
Open Lecture Series
Fortnightly

Free public lectures in plain language, held in town halls rather than on campus. No prior background assumed, ever.

05
Science on Air
Weekly

A fifteen-minute segment with the community radio station, answering questions that listeners send in during the week.

06
Repair & Reuse
Quarterly

Retired campus equipment is refurbished by student teams and donated to schools, with training so it actually gets used.

VolunteeringRolling intake

You do not need to be a science student, and you do not need to be good at explaining things yet — that is most of what the training is for. One weekend a month is enough to be useful.

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