Connecting the Dots in Science

About Course

School science teaches physics in one chapter and biology in another. But the real world doesn’t work that way. The same principles of force and energy that explain how a crossbow fires also explain how your muscles move. The same bacterium that damages crops turns out to be a key mover of the entire global water cycle.

Connecting the Dots in Science is a 5-session course for students in Grades 5–6 who have been identified as high-potential through the ASSET Talent Search. It’s designed to show students what science actually looks like when you follow a question wherever it leads — across disciplines, across scales, and into territory that textbooks don’t cover.

This isn’t a lecture series. Students build things, take measurements, debate ideas, and arrive at insights themselves. They encounter the same questions that working scientists grapple with — scaled to be accessible, but never dumbed down.

What you will learn

• Investigate how living things store, release, and transmit energy — from muscles and tendons to medieval weapons
• Use real measurements and calculations to uncover how the human body works as a mechanical system
• Trace energy from the sun through photosynthesis and food chains — and discover how little of it reaches your plate
• Follow a scientific detective story from a mysterious ice-forming bacterium to the global water cycle
• Connect ideas across physics and biology to see science as one integrated way of understanding the world

Instructor: Dr. Siddharth Bharath, Director of Online Programs, GenWise (PhD, Ecology, University of Minnesota)

Format: 5 sessions, live on Zoom, over two weekends. ~90 minutes each. May 2026.

Group size: Small cohort (max 15 students)

Price: ₹4,900 — use code ATS2026 at checkout for 20% off (₹3,920)