Academic excursions overtime have offered opportunities for students to have better grasp and retain ideas in order to advance classroom experiences. It has therefore become imperative for students in learning especially in a world where education no longer lies in a single classroom.
It is on this premise that NAVRC grants opportunity to students from different institutions of higher learning; to explore the Centre, and gain knowledge of the different research activities being carried out in the Centre.
The Students during Interactions at the the NAVRC’s Auditorium
Recently, 500 level Students of Community Medicine, University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, (UNEC) came on a tour of NAVRC; to gain knowledge of the different research activities undertaken by the Centre in containing the spread of vector borne diseases. The students had opportunities of visiting the different research Sections and the Insectary where NAVRC Staff were on ground at each point; to teach and demonstrate to the students how some of the research activities were carried out in the different sections visited. They were also taken round the different mosquito colonies and laboratories where they were shown the different methods of catching mosquitoes, their feeding habits, and how their study aid in researches.
Ms. Ikechukwu carrying out explanations of the Insectary for a better understanding of the different mosquito and colonies by the students
Exploration of the breeding colonies of Aedes and Culex mosquitoes, and knowledge of their biting habits
Students being shown the different immature stages of the mosquitoes before emerging into adulthood
Lecture on the various method of mosquito egg collections and preservations
Mr. Illiya carrying out demonstrating of some of the methods of carrying out vector control using plant extracts
The students being taken on the different methods of catching of mosquitoes by Mr. Onwude
The training ended in a group photograph of the students and some staff of NAVRC that facilitated their trainings during the short trip to the Centre.
