Broadcasting through radios viz. ‘Akashvani’ was a time-consuming and costly process and had a limited outreach.
The Revolution in digital media primarily affects youth. Whether it’s in leisure time or academic time, technology plays a pivotal role in youth life. Thus, looking at the enhanced outreach and familiarity of the digital platforms, CST, UP planned to make the quiz available to students through a mobile application.
In order to make the “Hello Young Scientist Quiz” available on major mobile platforms, TACT developed a mobile application for android and iOS platforms. The application was designed in a way to enrich the user experience, and provide them ease to access the quizzes.
Powered with cloud backend the application was available to users across the globe with no delay in response time. The analytics feature integrated in the application helped the council extract important insights about the application usage and to enrich the content accordingly. The components of the application included- a student dashboard, a large bank of questions with levels, result and rewards system, notification hub, scheduler, web services, CMS backend and cloud hosting.
Council of Science & Technology, Uttar Pradesh launched the “Hello Young Scientist Quiz” in order to sensitize the young minds towards modern Science & Technology for society’s development. The programme was broadcasted on FM Radio Akashvani. The science students from classes 8 to 12 participated in this programme by phone and answered the question by sending an SMS. Considering the digitalisation in every sector, CSI, UP intended to develop Android and iOS applications for Hello Young Scientist Quiz with an aim to give an edge to the success of the programme and reach a bigger student base.