With the rich background of having sophisticated light based instrumentation facility, in association with Vigyan Prasar, has jointly organized a One Day Programme on Photonics on 27 October 2016 at St. Peter’s Institute of Higher Education and Research (SPffIER), to commemorate the declaration of Speed of Light as 299,792 458 km/s by the General Conference of Weights And Measures on 21 October 1983 with Vigyan Prasar. SPIHER is the only institute in Tamil Nadu to get the opportunity to organize One Day Program on Photonics for school students. It has created awareness to the students about the deployment of Light based technologies.