“Science for
the people and The people for science”- This is the 2019 theme of National
Science Day celebrated all over India today.
It encourages us to make science an integral part of people’s lives.
Every year
we celebrate this day by introducing the Eureka Idea Box, but this year due to
your exams starting early, we have already done that. So if all of you have put your creative ideas
into the box, you have done your bit to expand your mind.
Cultivate
your curiosity because curiosity gives rise to questions, questions give rise
to ideas, ideas help form theories, theories are proved or disproved by
experiments and these experiments give rise to scientific discoveries and
inventions.
All of you
know that National Science Day was celebrated to commemorate this day in 1930
when the Nobel Prize was awarded to our Dr.Chandrashekhar Venkata Raman for
discovery of the Raman Effect. But do
you know how he discovered it? It is
said that while returning from England aboard a ship, Dr. Raman was standing on
the deck contemplating the blueness of the Mediterranean Sea, when an entirely
new explanation for the phenomenon struck him..
This was his “Eureka” moment and he discovered the Raman Effect.
I wish to
take this time for highlighting the
various ideas and projects that have won acclaim for the school in the
field of Science. A Smart Gas leakage
detector made it to the National Round of CBSE Science Exhibition while and
unusual combination of farming techniques called Tratek Farming made it to the
Nationals of the Children’s Science Congress (NCSC). An idea on modernization of Age Old
Techniques to suit today’s world won us an award at DRDE while the idea of an
app based smart dustbin and a multipurpose ladder won us national acclaim at
the Inspire Awards.
So keep your
mind open, let the ideas flow freely. Be curious, be hungry for ideas, seek
explanations and in all keep the scientific spirit alive.
Happy
National Science Day!!!
Chitra
Viswanathan
