THSTI celebrated its second Open Day for 2019, this time as a pre-event of the India International Science Festival (IISF) 2019 to be held at Kolkata from 5th to 8th November 2019. One hundred fifty students and teachers from Government Senior Secondary School, Bhankri village and Manav Rachna International School in Faridabad and DAV, Sector 14 in Gurgaon attended. Prof. Shinjini Bhatnagar, Dean (Clinical Research) welcomed the students to THSTI, briefing them on our research, THSTI's Science Setu (outreach) program and IISF 2019. The students visited the Biorepository and Small Animal Facility, Central Instrumentation Facility for a demonstration by first-year PhD students. The visits were followed by a chalk-talk session by Dr. Tarun Kumar Sharma (in Hindi) and Ms. Hina Lateef Nizami, a PhD student (in English). A science poetry session and painting competitions were organized for our young visitors.