Thane: 10 projects selected for national level of National Children's Science Congress

THANE: The

Thane district

saw the highest number of

projects

from the state being selected for the

national round

of National Children’s Science Congress.

Out of 30 projects that were selected from the state, 10 were from Thane district. It was seen that earlier 18 projects from the district were selected for the state round out of which 10 were chosen for the national round. The topic of this year’s

NCSC

was ‘science for sustainable living’ and the selection round for nationals was from January 29 till 31.

“The students had to show their presentation via live video for five to six minutes, post which there was viva. Also, the projects that were not selected but were innovative, had potential and could be developed, focus will be done on those for next year, so that they can become better,” said Surendra Dighe, president of NCSC (Maharashtra).

It was seen that out of the 10 projects selected from the district, most projects were from Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania School, as four projects were the institute.

“We made sure that children should not feel that they can’t do projects just because physical classes were not happening. Every student was guided by a teacher who too had a responsibility for the project. While, we allowed class 11 and 12 students to come to school in case any experiment needed to be checked in the lab, for others along with our support, we had requested parents to also keep a tab, especially those who were using gas, fire etc.,” said Revathi Srinivasan, principal at Smt. Sulochanadevi Singhania school.