A science exhibition titled, OUR PLANET OUR CONSCIENTIOUSNESS – young minds’ concern for the most beautiful planet in the universe’ was organized on 29-07-2012 in the premises of Deshpande Centre for Social entrepreneurship BVB College, Vidya Nagar.
The organisers group comprised of Dr Kaveri Hallikeri, Dr Kruthika S Guttal, Mr. Bharath Thakkar, Mr Somashekhar Masuti, Mr Gyan Laturkar of fifth batch of hubli champions.
Ten schools from hubli and Dharwad were randomly selected for participation. The schools from Hubli were- CHETAN PUBLIC SCHOOL, Dr G V Joshi Rotary English medium school, Convent High School, St Anthony’s Public School, St Mary’s High school , Smt Nirmala K Thakkar High School. Schools from Dharwad were- Baala Balaga, Basel mission English Medium School, Pavan English Medium School, SDM Central School.
The participants belonged to 8th , 9th , 1oth classes. Students from 8th and 9th class were to present posters of chart paper size and 10th class students had to prepare models from refused or waste materials available at home. (minimise use of new materials).
The topics were as follows-
8th class - Conservation of water & your inputs for need of the day.
9th class - Gadget o mania & social networking sites- its repercussions on human health & society
10th class - Environmental abuse – where do we stand in future.
The program was took off at 10 am in the morning... Overall of 41 groups of 140 enthusiastic students participated in the event.
The event also saw a stall from USHAS an organisation training children with special needs. Products made by children were displayed and few children and teachers appreciated their hard work by buying few of the products.
Mr Luiz , Principal of Sukruthi College, Mr. Anil Joshi , Program Manager (academics) Agastya International Foundation had consented to be the judges for the event.
Tough competition was set up by confident students. The prize winners were-
8th std –
First prize- SDM central school - Tushar, Vijayalakshmi, Shreya TM.
Second prize- Pavan English medium school -Rachita Byahatti, Madhuri Yavgal,Supreet patil.
9th std
First prize - Convent high school - Nakshatra, Shrinidhi, Supriya Desai.
SECOND prize - Pavan English medium school -Pooja Kulkarni, Suman, Amruta Deshpande.
10th STD
First prize- Pavan school – Jagruti ,Sumaiya, Channarajayya.
Second prize-Dr G V Joshi Rotary English medium school- Shrinidhi, Achal, Arbaz.
Prizes were sponsored by Sankalp semiconductors pvt lmtd hubli. The first prize included a CD of science projects and a Parker pen, and the second prize included a book on Science exhibition. The prizes were distributed by Mr Anant Kulkarni representing Sankalp Semiconductors.
The event closed at 2.pm with the prize distribution, and few words of wisdom shared by the Judges and Mr Naveen Jha CEO Deshpande Foundation India.
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