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Dream World School

IRIS Mentorship Camp Conducted in Bhubaneswar, Orissa.


    An IRIS National Science Fair aims to up level the quality of the affiliated fair projects.This year the IRIS mentorship camp, from South-East Indian Regional Mentorship Camp of IRIS National Science Fair 2018, was hosted atSiksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University, Bhubaneshwar, Orissa on 13th and 14th July, 2018.

At the two-day national fair around 50 young scientific researchers and innovators, winners of several science fairs of different parts of the country were invited to showcase their projects. From our school two teams were invited for mentorship camp. The details of the designed models and our student teams with the escorting teachers were given below.


Team

Students

Class

Sub-Theme

Title

Escorting.Teachers

1

ShivaKumar M.

X

Resource Management andFood Security

Biometric and  GSM Automatic Rationing System

Mr. Adam Syed and    Ms. Geetha Y.

2

Deeksha G.

 

&

 

 Shreya Apsani

X

Waste Management and Water Body Conservation

Nature to Nature: ‘Eco-friendly Incense Sticks, Perfume and Packing covers’

 

 

 






The purpose of inviting the students was to provide them an opportunity to interact with scientists and mentors which enables them to discuss their own ideas, to present their work and to prepare them to participate at IRIS National Fair 2018 that paves them to shine at a National and International Platform.

 On Friday, 13 July 2018 the first day of the Regional Mentorship Camp program at the Institute of Technical Education and Research (ITER), the faculty of engineering and technology of SOA (Deemed to be University), Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at ITER, Prof. Renu Sharma gave an Introductory address and motivated and fostered innovative ideas among all students. Prof. Amit Banerjee, Vice Chancellor, SOA gave an opening note of the occasion.

 At 10:25 a.m. each student team was given five minutes time to present briefly about respective projects in front of the SRC members. After the presentation, the SRC members spent time with each participant to understand the ideas, suggesting ways and means to infuse research and innovative thought processes into their existing projects. It was an exhilarating experience for students and teachers as well when the experts pointed out the gaps. The discussions and suggestions continued for the whole day.

    

The first discussion team was from Dream World School, Ballari on the topic ‘Nature to Nature’ (Eco-friendly Incense Sticks, Perfume and Packing covers). Menters asked inquisitive questions and gave many ideas and suggestions to improve the model to carry out some research work in future. Later, another team of Dream World School, Ballari presented on the topic Biometric and GSM Automatic Rationing System. The SRC members were impressed with this model and discussed with the students related for the development of the model.

The students and teachers noted down all the valuable suggestions given by SRC members and worked on it for the next day presentation.

On 14th July, the second day of the camp, interactive and learning session on ‘Science and Innovation’ was continued from 9:00 a.m.to 11: 00 a.m. by experts of SOA, Prof. Nachhiketa K. Sharma, Prof. S.N. Bhuyan and Prof. Naresh Sahoo.

Later, a session with mentors began at 11:00 a.m. The participants presented their projects to the SRC members after making some changes to their models as per the suggestions and critics received from them. The objective was to enhance the projects so that it can meet up the IRIS standards. Ten minutes time was given for the presentation.

At 12:30 P.M. an interactive session started on how to apply for IRIS. The programme ended with vote of thanks by Ms Astha Sharma, Outreach Manager, IRIS and motivated the students to come up with innovative steps to make their project better.

It was an immense pleasure for Dream World School students to get selected for IRIS Mentorship Camp. We thank Mr Agam Tyagi, Outreach Team and Ms Astha Sharma, Outreach Manager for giving all kind of support for our teams to reach such a wonderful and fruitful mentorship camp. Our students found it as an opportunity to learn and develop skills like craftwork, model work (origami) and to explore and express their creative ideas.