30th Aug 2025 | 9 AM to 5 PM
STORM Junior is a teen's-day-out into the world of reptiles!
What to Expect in a Day
Introduction to Reptiles & Amphibians
Child-friendly sessions to help them appreciate the amazing adaptations, habitats, and behavior of these often misunderstood animals.
Hands-On Reptile Handling Guided, safe interactions with select reptiles to observe their anatomy, movement, and behavior.
Reptile Management Basics
Children will learn the fundamentals of caring for reptiles, including enclosure setup, feeding, and hygiene.
Observation and Identification
Introduction to basic field tools and techniques to identify species and understand their ecological roles.
Interactive Experiments
Simple, hands-on scientific activities that explore how reptiles and amphibians function in their natural environments.
Conservation Awareness
Sessions that help children understand the importance of protecting reptiles and amphibians, and how they can contribute.
ELIGIBILITY
For 14 - 18 yrs
Batch size : 20
DETAILS
Date: 30th Aug 2025
9 AM to 5 PM
Venue: Birds of Paradise Foundation 94/3,Banjarapalya Village, Agara,(Kengeri) Hobli, Bangalore, India, Karnataka
FEE
Rs. 3450/-
(Additional ₹500 per child for transportation from Chellagatta Metro Station to Birds of Paradise)
Includes: Lunch, beverages, snacks, stationary, program charges.
Excludes: Transport to the venue and personal expenses
Priyanka Swamy
PhD Scholar, Program Manager
Kalinga Centre for Rainforest Ecology
Priyanka has diverse experience across the ecological fields and laboratory work. As part of the Phylogeography of king cobras project, she has travelled to king cobra habitats across the world and has experience with phylogenetic and population genetics tools to understand evolutionary and biogeography patterns and assist conservation prioritisation. She has also addressed questions related to diversity patterns, population structure and drivers of diversification of the Ranids of the Western Ghats and other herpetofauna.
An excellent environment educator, she has co-conducted a wide range of outreach programs for diverse audiences from school and college students to forest officials, researchers, and enthusiasts.
She is now pursuing her PhD project on Malabar pit vipers which marks the beginning of a topic long-awaited to be explored.
Dr P Gowri Shankar
Course Designer and Director
Herpetologist, TED Speaker, TEDFellow 2020
Gowri Shankar is a wildlife biologist working on king cobras for close to two decades.
He has been featured in several wildlife documentaries on channels like the BBC, Discovery, NatGeo Wild, Animal Planet, Smithsonian and National Geographic Channel.
He completed his PhD at North Orissa University and a former exchange student at Uppsala University, Sweden.
He was awarded the herpetologist of the year-2015 by the Swedish Herpetological Society.