National Space Olympiad

The National Space Olympiad is conducted in remembrance of Indian astronaut Kalpana Chawla.

[5][6][7] In NSO 2013-2014 Prizes are sponsored by Centre for Health Intelligence Learning and Development (CHILD) is a non-governmental and not – for – profit organization.

[8] In 2014 the event was conducted on 8 February 2014 by The Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics Resource Centre (IUCAA Resource Centre), Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology and Eureka Next Intellectual Services Pvt Ltd.[9][10] The Session on space Science was done by Prof. P R Madhava Panicker A veteran with Mtech from IISC, had associated with ISRO from 1971 -2005, and now engaged as Professor at RSET, Kochi.

[12] The NSO Finals round quiz was mastered by Mr. Sreejith K R, he Completed his M. Tech in Instrumentation and Applied Physics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.

An expert in giving invited talks in different areas of engineering and applied physics as well as in conducting technical quizzes.

The event is organized by Department of Physics, Cochin University of Science and Technology and Edumithra Intellectual Services Pvt Ltd.[14][15][16][17] A technical talk by Prof. P.S Nair, former deputy director of ISRO[18][19] and a telescope making session by IUCCA Resource Centre, CUSAT are included in the event after the quiz.