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Our participations



                                                                                03    ‘Ideate for India – Creative
                                                                                       Solutions Using Technology’
                                                                                     ,  a  national  challenge  by
                                                                                National eGovernance Division,
                                                                                Ministry of Electronics and

               Innovations at National level                         02         Information Technology,
                                                                                Government of India and Intel
                                                                                India  is  one  such  initiative  to
                                                                                spread awareness and make the
                                                                                future citizens understand how
                                                                                they can participate and
                                                                                contribute in this movement.
                                                                                Our school bagged award in top
                                                                                listed schools in north zone of
                                                                                India for the innovative project
                                                                                and shortlisted  in Regional
                                                                                Tech created Boot Camp 7 th -
                                                                                10 th  May  2019.  The  project
                                                                                addressed an upcoming
                                                                                problem which was unnoticed
                                                                                and will intensify with increased
                                                                                usage of technology in gener -
                ATL Marathon is a national level innovation challenge,          ations to come:
                where students identify community problems and develop          Radiations.
                innovative solutions in the form of working prototypes.
                Project “Engineered larvaecidal cakes” bagged National              After intense research, World
                award for this unique innovative project from our school.       Health Organization has already
                Mosquitoes  cause  more human suffering  than any               declared EMFs as type II carcino-
                other organism -- over one million people worldwide             gens. Visualization of lethal
                die from mosquito-borne diseases every year. Ananya             effects of invisible radiation  on
                Bhatia, Ridhi Kalia and Sehej Soni of class XII began           living cells  would  effectively
                their  research  to  develop  a solution  which  would  be      sensitize    civilians,  hospital
                unique, practical, cost-efficient  and accessible. The          workers and nuclear  power
                main focus of this innovation was to tackle both                plant workers.  So, we  have
                mosquito borne illnesses  and reuse  cigarette  butt            developed a unique E.coli based
                waste.  The cake had sugar, desiccated  yeast,  binding         disposable badges that can indicate
                material to initiate fermentation once cake is immersed         whether the radiation exposure to a
                in water that produced carbon dioxide that acts as a bait       worker. All  the  research  work
                to attract adult mosquitoes. Nicotine from waste                done  under  guidance  of Dr.
                cigarette butt is lethal not only to the breeding larvae        Bhupinder  Singh, Principal
                but also the adult mosquitoes and kills them                    Scientist    and     Radiological
                very effectively.                                               Safety      Officer,     Nuclear
                                                                                Research  Laboratory,  Centre
                    It can be put in your cooler, a flower pot, or a puddle of   for Environment Science  and
                stagnant water and it will start working its magic in 24        Climate Resilient Agriculture,
                hours. The product was tested at the National Institute of      ICAR-Indian          Agricultural
                Malarial Research on Anopheles mosquitoes.                      Research Institute, New Delhi.

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