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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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