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Young World
A different kind of competition
PAVAN KUMAR H.
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Each book was made with care and enthusiasm.
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New learning: Knowledge is free.
Each scrapbook is like a miniature encyclopaedia. Pavithra Raj, a standard X, student of Rathnamanasa, Ujire, was on cloud nine when it was announced that he had won the first prize in the scrap book computation. He punched the air and ran to the dais to collect the award.
Rathnamanasa is a unique boys’ residential high school which along with formal schooling gives students practical knowledge of agriculture and dairy farming. The institute is known for its innovative style of teaching and one among those is maintaining a ‘scrap book’. At the time of admission to standard VIII, the students are instructed to maintain a scrapbook in which they are suppose to collect all the related information about the subject in which they are interested.
Students from day one start searching for materials they want to put in it in it from books and the internet. The information is then pasted in one long book in the sequence of availability.
Innovative
Sports and agricultural issues were the main topics which most of the students preferred to save in their scrap book, but the winner (Pavithra Raj) had made an encyclopaedia of the galaxy. From “Sun is a star” to “Pluto losing planet status” all have found its place in his book. He says, “I want to be an astronaut and I am interested in astronomy so I tried to collect news relating to space.
To collect information such as which is the new nebula found, why the black hole absorbs light I browsed through the internet , newspapers and other related journals."
Gundurao A Kalyankar lost the first prize by half a point. He had chosen science and technology with all the supper electronic gadgets to atomic bombs and other war weapons being his main interest.
Any developments in the past three years regarding these issues have been recorded in his book. Creativity in presentation of matter was another highlight. Some photo arrangements belied the prowess of photographic software.
Krishna Bhat, coordinator of the school says, ‘till the students reach the level of professional course they are supposed to study the prescribed subjects without choice. So we thought of giving them a chance to collect information and study things which they like. Those books will be returned to them and they will be asked to continue them even after their schooling is over.”
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