Seven students of the Taurian World School, Ranchi accompanied by their physics teacher shared their experiences of NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre where they interacted with astronaut Don Thomas and witnessed a detailed presentation on shuttle Atlantis post. The students were taking part in a felicitation ceremony here of the school onWednesday.
“I was thrilled when I actually interacted with Don Thomas, a renowned astronaut. He shared his experience with us and also gave valuable tips. Apart from educational aspect, we were also accompanied to various recreational places. This trip was a memorable experience for us,” said, a student, Saurabh Srivastava, who was the part of seven member’s team.
The TWS organizes international and national educational tours yearly with the motto to expose the students to remove cultural, linguistic and traditional barriers and acquaint the students to various platforms available worldwide.
“The motto of organizing such events and excursion programme is to ignite the young minds to myriads of possibilities and motivate them to believe and thrive to achieve their dreams and aspirations all of which are an integral part of holistic development of education,” said Principal, TWS, Dr. Subhash Kumar.
Meanwhile, the school management felicitated all the meritorious candidates of standard X, who took the board examination in March 2016 and scored 10 CGPA, setting example for juniors besides bringing glory to the school. On the occasion, the seven candidates who went on the expedition trip to USA too shared their experiences with their counterparts on Wednesday in a private programme organised at city based hotel.
“This year 54 candidates appeared in the board examination and every candidate scored decent CGPA with 19 percent candidates scoring 10 CGPA and 56 per cent candidates scoring above 8 CGPA. This is just not the school management success but I extent my gratitude towards the guardians who throughout the journey helped and kept motivating their wards to perform well in exams,” said, the Principal.