‘Vilakshans 2019’ : Students Proffer Sustainable Solutions

    • Pune Times NIE
    • Publish Date: Dec 23 2019 6:08PM
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    • Updated Date: Dec 23 2019 6:15PM
‘Vilakshans 2019’ : Students Proffer Sustainable Solutions
Students from 14 schools presented their projects on sustainability

About 100 students from 14 schools all over the city participated in the maiden launch of 'Vilakshans 2019', a science exhibition held at The East Court Phoenix Market City, Viman Nagar, on December 1. It was organised by The Returning Monks (TRM), a young event group spearheaded by Amrita Daga, Aparnaa Chakrraborrtiyy and Swetrupa Chakraborty, who envisioned this to create their flagship programme called 'Vilakshans'. The schools had earlier applied through video clippings of their projects and were then selected for the final round. 
The participating schools included Kline Memorial School, Bibwewadi, Pune International School CBSE, Tingre Nagar, All Saint High Schools, Khadki, SNBP School, Rahatani, Educon International School, Chinchwad, Hind English Medium School Gurukool, Viman Nagar, Don Bosco High School, Yerwada and The HDFC School, Hadapsar, to name a few.
This exhibition with more than 50 projects on display, achieved the mission of bringing young and bright minds on a common platform to share simple but powerful ideas to tackle the burning problems of our time and demonstrate sustainability, recyclability and reusability with resources at their disposal.
The projects on sustainability showed some interesting ideas on how paper and household items can be prepared from banana stems and pea pod peels.
Addressing the all-pervasive problem of plastic pollution, students demonstrated that plastics can be converted to fuel and also building materials. They also demonstrated how solar energy/wind energy can be harnessed to make portable induction cooktops and solar cars.
There was an intellectual exchange of ideas on how a simple banana has the potential to generate energy which can solve our ever-growing energy problems.
The omnipresent problem of green-house gas emissions is being taken on a serious note and students demonstrated that artificial leaves which work on principle of photosynthesis can convert harmful carbon dioxide to various hydrocarbons which can be reused.
Other working models were based on fundamental concepts of physics namely hydraulics and pressure. A series of related exhibits provided unique solutions to extreme problems of sewage disposal and recycling.
The exhibition revealed that the environmental crisis has reached every strata of our society and the new generation is aware and is trying to find efficient solutions to these problems. The response to the event was overwhelming as students across the strata of the society participated wholeheartedly in the event. The guests were highly impressed with the prowess of these young minds. The event reaffirmed the fact that there is more need for the society in common, to promote freethinking, research and idea-exchange to benefit India.
The ideas that the students brought were well received and everyone spent almost 3 to 4 hours going through the floor and listening to the participants keenly. They were equally ecstatic to revisit their own knowledge of concepts. 
TRM had kept the platform open to even the home-scholars. The event facilitated students to shift their focus to practical implementation, rather than just theory. Such opportunities help the students to reflect on their own strength of ideation and with due time, will be able to motivate the creators, researchers, scientists and entrepreneurs among them, believes TRM.
Among those present were scientists, educationists, principals, chairpersons and media entrepreneurs. The students found keen audience in them and were equally thrilled to present their work elaborately.

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