A day at Science Fest

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"

- Einstein

Today, it was not as usual as we thought. It was raining heavily in Chennai. Weather reports said low pressure area and formation of cyclone around Chennai.. But this surged high pressure within us. Because, today we had planned to take PUSH children to the Science exhibition that has been held at Vivekanada Vidhyalaya Junior College, Perambur.

Early morning confusion : It was not only our wish but also the children's prayers that temporarily stopped the rainfall. The next hindrance came in the form of transport. We had arranged a van for the children. But since it was raining heavily, the van driver refused to come at the last moment. We need to thank Senthil & his family for managing the situation and this early morning confusion was solved.

Fun started : By 10am, Pradeep and Karthik guided the van driver to PUSH and moments after this were comprised of fun and enjoyment. Right from the time the children boarded the van, they started to sing , dance and play games. Karthik D and Gokul joined us in the meantime. We all reached school by 11am. The school Principal, Ms.Usha Rani welcomed us and asked us to proceed to explore things in the Science Fest.

All the stalls in the fest were informative. School students in each stall explained very well in tamil to suit our audience, although they were prepared to explain only in english. Lots of questions were fired from PUSH children and they gathered lot of new information in the fields such as agriculture, global warming impact, civilization etc.

School provided lunch for PUSH children. With fullness of stomach and mind and with a great satisfaction of imbibing few great information, we boarded the van to leave the children back at PUSH by 3pm.

Shubodaya takes this opportunity to thank the Correspondent, Principal, teachers and students of Vivekananda Vidhyalaya who guided us through out the exhibition. It was a day that would have been a gateway of scientific knowledge to PUSH children.