Patna: The four-day Regional Science Congress 2025, hosted by the Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS), kicked off with nice enthusiasm on Wednesday at the Indian Institute of Technology Patna (IIT-P) on Wednesday. The occasion brings collectively 100 excellent college students—primarily Class X toppers—together with 24 women, chosen from 83 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas throughout Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. Immersed in a spirit of scientific curiosity and innovation, these younger minds are actively taking part within the congress. The main goal of the congress is to ignite scientific curiosity amongst college students, foster consciousness of cutting-edge developments in science and expertise, and domesticate a rational, scientific mood. The theme of this 12 months’s Congress is “Application of emerging technologies in sustainable development”.Inaugurating the younger scientists’ meet, IIT-P’s dean–cum-registrar A Okay Thakur exhorted the proficient youths to broaden their horizons past conventional disciplines similar to science, engineering, and expertise. They should discover areas like ideation, incubation, and entrepreneurship to contribute meaningfully to nation-building, he stated.He requested the individuals to adorn their personalities with information, conduct, and character and develop into accountable residents of a developed and self-reliant India. He additionally highlighted India’s strides in semiconductor expertise and underlined the huge alternatives accessible for college students within the science and expertise sector.IIT-P’s senior college Naveen Nishchal delivered a well-liked speak on “Inspiration towards the study of science” on the event. The individuals visited IIT Patna’s physics and chemistry laboratories, in addition to its incubation centre, the place they engaged in hands-on experiments and explored sensible purposes of scientific theories.The assistant commissioner of NVS, Patna area, R Okay Choudhary, and the principal of Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Bikram, Mukhtar Singh additionally addressed the scholars.