The DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur team emerged as the champions in the junior group in the national level science project competition held in Mumbai on Thursday.
The team consisting of Class-V students Amritansh Rath, Sneha Mohapatra and Alisha Basa prepared the project titled ‘Futura: A Sustainable City’ under the guidance of science teacher Prasanna Kumar Dhala. The project illustrated the concept of four R- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recreate.
A team of scientists from the Bhaba Atomic Research Centre (BARC) under the leadership of Dr Rabi Prakash Modi evaluated the final round projects.
More than 12,000 schools participated in the preliminary round held in October last year. The winner were felicitated with a trophy, memento, certificate laptop, a seven-day trip to london along with a cash r4eward of Rs50,000 for the school for grooming the budding scientists. The school authorities felicitated the students and the teacher on their arrival at the school premises here.