Young World
On the wind of ambition
M. BALAGANESSIN
A project by four young students has been selected for the national level competition to be held in Nagaland shortly.
Going national: The students with their exhibit.
Four students of Panchayat Union Middle School in Vembanpatti near Gandarvakottai in Pudukottai district have brought laurels to the institution through their science project on mini wind mill that has qualified for the national level contest. The project aimed at generating power through a mini wind mill set up in a speeding mini-autorickshaw.
The students, R. Kalaiarasi, R. Muthukumar and S. Lakshmanan all of Std. VIII and S. Venkatesan of Std. VI of the school worked on the project and presented their paper at the State-level competition at Nagercoil early this month. It has been selected for the national level competition to be held in Nagaland shortly.
“The principle of the mini wind mill is based on the functioning of the giant wind mills. While travelling by a speeding motor vehicle, one experiences strong currents of wind which is not put to use. Utilisation of this wind energy for generating power is the objective of the project. The hands of a fan fitted in the vehicle make uniform rotations or cycles. The fan is connected, in series circuit, to a set of five dynamos which together generate Direct Current (D.C.) of 1.5 volt,” says the guide, S. Geetha.
The current is stored in a battery and utilised for supplying energy to a few bulbs in the vehicle, according to the district training co-ordinator, A. Manikandan.
Step by step
The competition, sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology and the National Children’s Science Congress, was organised through the Tamil Nadu Science Fourm. “The project was chosen at the district-level Congress held in Pudukottai last month and was qualified for the State contest,” says Govindasamy, the district co-ordinator of the Tamil Nadu Science Forum.
The students were felicitated at a function in the school. The headmistress of the school, G. Ramajayam, the president of Parent Teacher Association, V. Srinivasan, the president of Village Education Committee, Chellakannu, and the Village Panchayat president, Thaiyalnayaki, appreciated the efforts taken by the students in preparing the project.
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30 May 2010
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Award winning kids await TN wordMay 25th, 2010
DC Correspondent Share Buzz up!Pudukkottai, May 24: Five students of a rural school, recipients of ‘child scientist’ award at the national children’s science conference for their innovative project and honoured at the international science conference, are pinning their hope on getting free education, as promised by deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin, till they complete their higher studies.
R. Manokaran, K. Praveenkumar, S. Lakshmanan, R. Kalaiarasi (all studying in class VIII) and C. Venkatesan (class VI), students of panchayat union middle school at Vembanpatti, near Gandarvakottai, bagged the ‘child scientist’ award at the national children’s science conference, jointly organised by the Nagaland government and the department of science and technology, in Nagaland, in 2008 for their innovative project on ‘generating electricity through windmill in motor vehicles’.
The children demonstrated how a four-wheeler could be run with the help of the power generated through the wind velocity that hits the vehicle. “The electricity generated through wind could be stored in the dynamo to run the four-wheeler. About 1.5–3 volts of electricity can be generated from a dynamo depending upon the wind velocity. The students proved their point by generating 6 volts of current from the five windmills installed on the five floors during the national meet,” Mr Manikandan science teacher of the panchayat school who guided the students, said.
Later, the child scientists were honoured at the international science conference in Ahmedabad in August 2009 and their paper published in the internationally acclaimed ‘Hands on Science’ magazine.
The child scientists met Mr Stalin in Chennai on August 22, 2009, on his invitation on the way home. When he asked them what they wanted, they said they wanted free education till they complete their higher studies and Mr Stalin reportedly assured to do the needful. However, no concrete steps have been taken in this direction.
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Award winning kids await TN wordMay 25th, 2010
DC Correspondent Share Buzz up!Pudukkottai, May 24: Five students of a rural school, recipients of ‘child scientist’ award at the national children’s science conference for their innovative project and honoured at the international science conference, are pinning their hope on getting free education, as promised by deputy chief minister M.K. Stalin, till they complete their higher studies.
R. Manokaran, K. Praveenkumar, S. Lakshmanan, R. Kalaiarasi (all studying in class VIII) and C. Venkatesan (class VI), students of panchayat union middle school at Vembanpatti, near Gandarvakottai, bagged the ‘child scientist’ award at the national children’s science conference, jointly organised by the Nagaland government and the department of science and technology, in Nagaland, in 2008 for their innovative project on ‘generating electricity through windmill in motor vehicles’.
The children demonstrated how a four-wheeler could be run with the help of the power generated through the wind velocity that hits the vehicle. “The electricity generated through wind could be stored in the dynamo to run the four-wheeler. About 1.5–3 volts of electricity can be generated from a dynamo depending upon the wind velocity. The students proved their point by generating 6 volts of current from the five windmills installed on the five floors during the national meet,” Mr Manikandan science teacher of the panchayat school who guided the students, said.
Later, the child scientists were honoured at the international science conference in Ahmedabad in August 2009 and their paper published in the internationally acclaimed ‘Hands on Science’ magazine.
The child scientists met Mr Stalin in Chennai on August 22, 2009, on his invitation on the way home. When he asked them what they wanted, they said they wanted free education till they complete their higher studies and Mr Stalin reportedly assured to do the needful. However, no concrete steps have been taken in this direction.
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15 April 2010
welcome dear my young world!
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