“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.”
Like Chief Guest, Dr Vijay Bhatkar, Einstein would’ve been proud of the students of G G International School, Pimpri, Pune after witnessing and interacting with almost every child at length on the day of their Annual Science Day!
“An excellent programme! A lot of hard work has been put in by the entire team. What I liked is the conviction with which students were explaining their content and also the fact that the topics were of level higher than the age of the children,” exclaimed Mr Amit Goel, Managing Director of the Goel Ganga Group who was visibly impressed with the minute detailing and the way the day was planned for parents and visitors.
Every child participated from Std I – XII with a variety of working models and dances based on scientific processes and cycles. The visiting parents and principals of other schools were thrilled with what the students spoke and more so with how they spoke! Confidence and the readiness to be grilled with questions pertaining to the projects displayed were the highlights of the student performance.
Mrs Sonu A Gupta, Director of GGIS expressed her elation at the roaring success of yet another typically well-planned and executed annual day. “The manner in which the staff and students worked towards the preparation and success of this annual day makes me proud beyond expression. The entire Admin and teaching staff, headed by the Principal, Vice Principal and HoD of Science has been a treat to experience! I am proud of the GGIS family!”
“The programme was of truly international standards and it was like being in Oxford or Cambridge. I have visited several science days but this concept of the journey of man and the execution was excellent. My sincere appreciation for all the GGIS staff and students!” – the words of an enthralled supergod of the supercomputer, Dr Bhatkar during his interview with the science enthusiasts of GGIS. The idea of science being a boon available across the counter and being driven by imagination was emphasised by the Principal, Mr Murad Sarfraz and his thoughts were echoed when the chief guest encouraged every student to imagine because it is imagination that makes us humans to do wonderful things through science.
The Annual Day marked its actual beginning on 17th December with the Inter-School GGIS Mega Quiz Contest in which the neighbouring CBSE schools participated. The concluding session of the challenging and creative Quiz was held on the 24th and the privileged winners were felicitated at the hands of Dr Bhatkar. Needless to say, every participant was in awe of the modest giant of the fields of IT, Education, Science and Spirituality.
The excitement in the eyes of the Science Department members was visible from the time Dr Bhatkar magic-spray-painted the welcome banner to the culmination with a student press conference. The theme of the ‘importance of science in the life of man from the caves to the moon’ was done full justice with students explaining the Big Bang Theory, the stages of evolution and so on right up to nano-technology and gene-silencing. The students paid rich tribute to Dr Dabholkar who lost his life in the pursuit of fighting superstitions by performing tricks of ‘babas’ and showing the visitors that it is truly pure science and nothing else that they use to make a buck and create a super-aura about themselves.
The day was a grand success simply because the event lived up to the motto of GGIS, ‘Empowering Knowledge’ where every child learnt a great deal and put in his best to make the day worth engraving in the best of our memories!
