School students exhibited their imagination and thoughts in the form of science models during a daylong district-level science exhibition held at Narayanpur Nagar Palika Parishad community hall, the other day.
Around 200 students from 6th to 10th standards participated in the exhibition and presented different science models.
District Panchayat president Saraswati Gota graced the occasion as chief guest. Nagar Palika Parishad president Vedvati Patra, MP representative Brijmohan Devangan and other people’s representatives observed the models displayed by students at the science exhibition.
Expressing their views, the people’s representatives said that the exhibition was very inspiring for students and the exhibited science models would encourage and develop children’s interest in science. They said, though there were scarcity of science teachers in the district, but still the students need to be encouraged.
Brijmohan Devangan said that the models exhibited by the students were outstanding. He encouraged the children to understand rules of science.
District education officer MN Gaikwad said that intention of giving “Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)” award was to develop students’ interest in science to get inventors and scientists for future. As per instructions of the administration, way has been widened for the students who have made science models to participate in the district-level science exhibition, he added.
He said, in the district-level exhibition 10 top models of students would be short listed who would get opportunity to exhibit their models in the state-level science exhibition at Bilaspur. Selected participants would represent in the national-level science exhibition, he added.
Chief of all the institutions, teachers and students did untiring efforts for more than a week and the students exhibited variety of models. Educational institutions teachers, students, distinguished citizens, parents and guardians of students visited the science exhibition with interest and seriousness.