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Students at their creative best

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Two-day open house exhibition showcases ingenious exhibits

— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

Up close: Students with a python at ‘Creation 2008’ in Osmania University College for Women.

HYDERABAD: Students were awestruck as the giant python softly curled around their necks and hands.

They vied to have a feel of its velvety texture and slithery movement when the demonstrator offered the serpent for a while. This was one among the many moments of fun on Monday at Creations 2008, the two-day open house exhibition in Osmania University College for Women, which started on Monday.

The exhibition staged hundreds of ingenious exhibits by the enthusiastic students, who erased the rigid lines between the departments.

Department of Telugu showcased the instruments of early scientific development such as ‘Naagali’, ‘Guntika’, and ‘Moku-Mustaadu’, while the division of Commerce gave expression to the disasters of global warming. The HIV model all decked up with beads and pearls looked fatally alluring while the English department explored a little into history too by depicting the first voyage to the USA.

Models and exhibits pertaining to recombinant era, drug designing, molecular modelling, weight management, and Bioinformatics won special compliments though other displays were by no means inferior.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. We worked for three days to develop the model of bulb that lights up with a clap,” said Sheema Sadia and Humera, two students from the final year of B.Sc Electronics.

Automatic letter alarm, a heartbeat monitor and a skeleton of FM Radio were among other exhibits in the department.

A clay-built model from the Department of Botany depicted the role of plants in human life, while another explained the eutrophication of lakes.

In all about 1000 students from 30 departments were involved in the show.

The whole campus donned a carnivalesque look with even trees holding posters and thermocol models.

Cultural events were organised after 3 p.m.

Inaugurating the exhibition, Vice Chancellor of the University T. Tirupathi Rao urged the students to make their college life memorable by organising more of such events.

“A college like this is the right place for people to come and get exposure to scientific development. More such programmes should be organised to promote creativity and free thinking in students,” he said.

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