New Delhi, 10th November 2021: India’s largest S&T public engagement platform, India Science Fest, launches SciWo: A hunt for the Science Word of the Year! Being the first such initiative anywhere in the world, it is uniquely placed to connect science and society. We wish to get society’s attention to scientific breakthroughs, and create greater interest in the public for science.
SciWo will be crowdsourced through an online hunt! The initiative welcomes all science students, PhD students, professors, teachers, science communicators, and industry professionals to come forward to send their entry to help us find the most apt word/phrase. The final word shall be selected by an eminent jury working on multiple inputs such as online votes, references in scientific literature and public science media.