Extraterrestrial Competition - SEDS India National Conference 2009

Extra terrestrial was a paper presentation competition, under ONESPACE (SEDS India's Outreach Programme) held during SINC’09. Once again it was an endeavour to provide a platform for the school students, the budding scientists, to present their ideas. Extraterrestrial, just this one word is enough to trigger the imaginations of the young mind, with things like UFO’s, Aliens etc residing under this topic. It was impossible not to get awestruck by the beautiful ideas of the beautiful minds!

The participants had to present their ideas on colonisation outside earth, i.e. ‘space colonies’ a futuristic idea. They were judged on the basis of Innovativeness, presentations, feasibility and cost-effectiveness. They basically had to prepare a power point presentation, but verbal and poster presentation of ideas were also allowed. The schools which participated in this event were Srishti Vidyashram (both 1st and 2nd prize), Lakshmi Garden, Ida scudder, Sunbeam, with a minimum of 4-5 teams per school. They were given 10minutes to present and were subjected to questionnaires based on their presentation. At the end, the event coordinator explained the whole concept of extraterrestrial to the participants and the points where they were lacking.

Winners:

1st prize : Arun Raggavendra , Srishti Vidyalaya                              

2nd prize: Benjamin , Srishti Vidyalaya 

After that Krishna Mohanty, Treasurer SEDS India gave thanks to the school faculties, students and the judges. She promised that SEDS will always organise events for the school students in future. It was again a great effort by ONE SPACE team in bringing out innovativeness among the school students and managing all the things. Respected Nambiraj sir accompanied the judge to the event.Budding professionalism could be easily figured out in all the participants. 

Ideas including robots, the famous Stanley and Miller experiment, weather condition in Mars etc were presented. Their eagerness to contribute in the field of science and technology could be easily seen through their innovative ideas. In fact so eager was one student, that he prepared a stunning theory on colonisation in mars, during the event and showcased it as the last participant! They all seemed to believe in the famous saying-‘participation is to confidence where winning is to survival’, as there could be seen no disappointment.