The "Eastern India Innovation Festival 2024" was held at the Digha Science Centre premises on March 15-16, 2024. This grand Innovation Festival, the first of its kind in the history of the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), aimed to highlight the role of science and technology in exploring new frontiers of the mind and the resulting changes in learners' perspectives. A variety of competitive and non-competitive events, such as Model Display, Nature Trail Programmes, and Cultural Programmes, were organized for school and college students from different eastern states of India. Innovation Hub students and mentors from SSC Patna, Regional Science Centre Bhubaneswar, DSC Digha, DSC Purulia, DSC Bardhaman, and BITM Kolkata also participated in the event. Professor Krishna Kumar, Dean of the Faculty of Science at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, inaugurated the festival on March 15, 2024, in the presence of Dr. Arijit De, Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at IIT Kharagpur; Dr. Somnath Ghosal, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Rural Development and Innovative Sustainable Technology, IIT Kharagpur; Shri Subhabrata Chaudhuri, Director of Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata; and Shri Rajib Nath, Director of the National Council of Science Museums, Kolkata. Dr. S. Balakrishnana, Joint Director and Officer in Charge of the Marine Aquarium, ZSI, Digha, Purba Medinipur, chaired the valedictory function on March 16, 2024, and presented the awards.

A day-long interactive workshop on “Plant Tissue Culture Techniques” was organized by Digha Science Centre on February 20, 2024. Dr. Aveek Samanta, Assistant Professor in the Department of Botany at Contai Pravat Kumar College, East Midnapore, conducted the workshop. Approximately 30 students and teachers participated, and the event was thoroughly covered by electronic media. The participants learned about the cultivation of plant cells, tissues, and organs on specially formulated nutrient media, and how an entire plant can be regenerated from a single cell under the right conditions.

A gala of events on Science & Art were organised during Science & Creativity Week-2023. Dr. PC Panchariya, Director CSIR-CEERI was the Chief Guest in the programme.

Innovation Festival was organised from 11th to12th February,2023 in collaboration with National Innovation Foundation – India, Guwahati. Grassroot Innovators from the States of West Bengal, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya and Tripura took part with their innovative projects in the Festival. An automatic sanitation system for cars (currently deployed in taxis) was selected as the best innovation developed by Sri Gautam Gurung from Shillong, Meghalaya and received the Dinanath Pandey memorial “Smart Idea Innovation Award”.

The 5th Innovation Festival and Science Show 2023 was held at Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai during 1st to 3rd February, 2023. A section was allotted for young innovators wherein the district level and Inspire award winning 08 students’ projects from Mumbai Region were exhibited. Besides, there were projects from organizations SA.KU.RA—MI, Salaam Bombay Foundation and Ahmed Abdullah Garib I.T.I, Mumbai. As part of the Festival, activities such as Make and Take workshops, Science demonstrations, workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Robotics, workshop on Science Toy Making, etc. were held. Also, science shows were performed by BARC and NSCM Teams on different topics like ‘Matter at Low Temperature’, ‘Light and Sound’, ‘Biology’ and ‘Chemistry’.

On the occasion of National Science Day, Science Festival Competitions like Drawing, Painting, Essay Writing in Tamil and English and Elocution Programme were held in the Hub. 60 students participated in the event.