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‘ENVIRO 2010’ EXHIBITS SCHOOLCHILDREN’S INITIATIVE TO SPREAD ENVIRONMENTAL MESSAGE.

Posted on: 05/Jul/2010 5:41:12 AM

Spoons, motors, scientific models and experimental kits were on display.

‘Enviro 2010` opened in Chennai on Saturday. The exhibition show cases some of the devises invented by school children are using spoons and small battery-operated motors an initiative   aimed at save the planet from global. The spoons, the motors and many more scientific models and experimental kits designed by school students were on display at the inauguration of ‘Enviro 2010,` a two-day exhibition, jointly organized by Industrial Waste Management Association (IWMA) and Science Olympiad Foundation (SOF). It is being conducted at Youth Hostel, India Nagar, Ayer.

It’s inspiring to see  S.Archishman, a Class V student of PSBB, K.K.Nagar explaining what environmental protection means to him. For example, if human activity adds too much smoke to the atmosphere, it will affect the environment and in turn, affect us.”

Another  child Gideon Santosh, a class V student of Alpha Matriculation School, said: “Preparing for the exhibition helped me learn interesting things. I never knew that seawater could be purified to get drinking water.”The exhibits were on a broad range of themes, from global warming to water purification and renewable energy to ozone depletion.