Mayor visits Science & Maths exhibition

AID India organized Science & Maths exhibition at the Corporation schools of Triplicane in Chennai on 22nd Apr 2008. Students from 13 schools participated in the exhibition. The Chennai Mayor M. Subramanian and the Additional Commissioner for education Ms. Usha Kakarla participated in the exhibition.

The Mayor said that the children were able to explain difficult concepts that even adults may find it difficult to understand. Ms. Usha Kakarla said that Maths & Science programs have been introduced in 31 schools for 3,565 students as on date, said Additional Commissioner (Education) Kakarla Usha. Teachers are trained to teach concepts using the experiments. All Corporation schools would be encouraged to take up the programme for their middle school sections from the next academic year.

News in The Hindu: http://www.hindu.com/2008/04/23/stories/2008042359240400.htm

Zonal Exhibition programs for Science & Secondary Mathematics

The Chennai team organized two zonal exhibitions recently for the science and secondary maths programs. While the science exhibitions have been going on in many districts, the maths exhibition was a new experience for secondary maths as well as the Chennai team.

Ms.Usha Kakarla, Additional Commissioner, Chennai Corporation made a visit to the Triplicane exhibition on 26th March 2008. She visited each and every single stall. She tried many of the puzzles and was stumped by quite a few ones! One of the girls asked the visitor to find 4 weights that can be used to measure any weight from 1 to 15 kg. The visitor thought she had the answer when she said 1, 2, 5 and 7. The girl knew the correct answer as 1, 2, 4 and 8 - so she said the visitor’s answer was wrong. When asked why, the girl thought for a moment, then said "you can measure 1, 2 and 3kg but not 4kg. That’s why!” This really impressed everyone who attended the exhibition.

Another boy, Salim, from CMS Krishnampet wowed everyone with his enthusiastic explanations. At his science stall, he did a couple of experiments and then wanted to show a grinder model which was not turning on. He later found out where she was, dragged her to his room, and showed that it was working now! He also showed up in the maths section again!

Grand Drawing Festival by AID INDIA & VESTAS INDIA

AID INDIA and VESTAS INDIA jointly conducted a "Grand Drawing Festival" on 22nd March 2008 at the Corporation Boys High School in Gopalapuram, Chennai. Children participated in the competition from 20 schools and were selected for the final competition. 75 children participated in the final competition and the topic was “Green World for the Green future”. Writer Yuma, Koothalingam (Sub-editor - Puthiya Paarvai), Ashwin Kumar (CSR Manager, Vestas India), Srinivasan (Implementation coordinator, AID INDIA), Antony (Documentary film director) were the chief guests and distributed the prizes to the winners. Function was organized by the Social work students of Loyola College and Madras School of Social Work (MSSW).

Metric Mela & Science Fair

A Metric mela was held on 24th Oct 07 at Desiyanagar boys club. About 85 adults and children participated and prizes were distributed to the same who were the winners in the events. On 19th Oct 07, another Metric mela was held at Perambur Chembium boys club.
On 23rd Oct 07, a science fair was held at Korrukkupet in which, 30 students took part and demonstrated the Science Concepts in front of their parents.