The excitement is palpable on the face of E. Sai Arun Kumar and his two friends Ch. Vara Prasad and S. Durga Prasad.
The three boys from 10 class in S.K.P.V.V. Hindu High School at Gandhinagar in the city are winners of a State-level science exhibition organised by the Department of Education in Science and Mathematics, National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT) as part of 41 Jawaharlal Nehru National Science, Mathematics and Environment Exhibition (JNNSMEE) for Children—2014.
The trio, with their science teacher V.Venugopala Rao in tow, is headed to Chandigarh to participate in a weeklong national level contest slated from November 11.
Disturbing imagesDisturbing images flashed across television channels of the Kedarnath catastrophe last year set Arun Kumar thinking on the causes that led to a disaster of this magnitude.
Good opportunity“It raised my curiosity and I gathered a lot of information on reasons leading to such calamities. Almost simultaneously, the school announced the competition and I decided to participate This was a good opportunity to give shape to my thoughts and share my knowledge on the subject with others,” he says.
Talking about the rapidity with which the Himalayan glaciers are receding as an offshoot of global warming, he points to the nearly 140 hydel projects constructed along the Ganga river.
The boy is eager to use the national-level event as a platform to create awareness on the need to put a full stop on illegal constructions on river banks and drive his point home loud and clear that switching to renewable energy resources like solar and wind energy could go a long way to help the situation. The four-member team from the school will be in Chandigarh from November 11 to 17.
