Earth Day Celebrations at DPS R. K. Puram

Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram celebrated Earth Day on 21st April 2011. Earth Day was first celebrated on 22nd April 1970 in the United States. Senator Gaylord Nelson of the United States founded Earth Day. It is the largest, most widely celebrated international environmental event. Earth day is celebrated to create awareness amongst people about protecting the biodiversity (that is plants and animals), reducing air, water, nuclear, soil and land pollution, promoting alternative sources of energy like Solar energy.

On this occasion, a special assembly was held in the school where students and especially members of the Environment Club discussed  the importance of the environment and how they could preserve it. A pledge to protect it was taken by the students. The ‘E&I magazine, ‘Terravision’ was released. Special Earth day badges were distributed to students and teachers. A presentation was made by Nokia on E-waste. All the teachers wore green to show their concern for the environment.

The Principal, Dr.D.R.Saini and the teachers planted saplings in the gardens of the school. Various activities like the exhibition of eco-friendly models, slogan writing, T-shirt painting and dry flower arrangement were organized for the students in the Environment Week. Students of Hope Hall School, Sector VIII also visited the school to join in the celebrations. The school is attached to DPS R.K.Puram by the Ministry of Environment under the ‘Lead School Programme’.



Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition (ARSSDC) 2011

A 12 member team from Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram comprising of Shubham Goel, Vibhor Sehgal, Saarthak Jajoria, Aditya Aggarwala, Arjun khandelwal, Keshav Adhyay, Ishan Sharma, Sibesh Kar, Shashwat, Dhruv Singhal, Achal Varma and Dhruv Gupta led by Mr. Anil K.  Verma took part in the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition from the 1st to 4th February 2011, in Manesar. The purpose of this contest was to enable high school students to experience what aerospace industry engineers work on, including designing of a city in space that could become home for over 10,000 people. Student engineers were expected to demonstrate creativity, technical competence, management skills, space environment knowledge, team work and presentation techniques.

The team from DPS R.K.Puram, qualified for the Asian semi-finals and were teamed up with the Lahore Grammar School, Pakistan and Little Flower High School, Hyderabad, India. The initial qualification rounds included completing a proposal for a space settlement within the given time frame of 3 months. At the finals, they had to prepare a 50 page report in 21 hours on a fusion powered ship named ‘Cassandras’, which would have the ability to transport people from Earth to Mars in 80 days. After a gruelling 21 hours, the report was submitted and it was presented before the judges during a 35 minute presentation. The judges were impressed with the structure and working of the space ‘Cruiseliner’ and their company ‘Dougeldyne Astrosystems & Flechtel Constructors’. The company finished 2nd in the overall tally.



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