By Noimot Olayiwola
Students of DPS-Modern Indian School yesterday showcased their talents and demonstrated their knowledge about environment in a one-day exhibition tagged, “Go Green”.
The event, which was organised to inculcate awareness and care of the nature as well as environmental-friendliness in the classes 6-8 students, featured around 50 exhibits made by the students out of recycled materials.
On display were projects intricately made out of wastes and disposable items such as foam, paper boxes, sticks and pencil shavings and clearly explaining the effects of human activities on nature and the environment.
The themes of some of the projects included acid rain, periscope, green energy, bio-gas station, sewage water treatment, modern city, solar energy, aerodrome, village and city, polar region, global warming, hydroelectricity project and
deforestation.
The students also showcased windmills, musical instruments, birds’ nests and baskets made out of used polythene bags and old magazines as well as marine designs like sea turtle using pistachio shells and paper mache.
To depict the effect of deforestation on environment, they used bread crumbs to model trees being plundered in a forest.
Apart from showcasing their creative and artistic talents to build the projects, the students, who competed in four houses of Lily, Lotus, Rose and Tulip, also presented their culinary skills in a “cooking without fire” competition featuring a total of 12 teams presenting light meals, snacks and drinks based on different themes ranging from India, Mexico, Arabic to simple theme of the jungle, the nature and four elements - earth, air, fire and water.
Aroma of scents and sounds typical of their chosen themes greeted visitors to their
restaurants.
At the Indian restaurant, students performed a dance around rangoli (floral design) to welcome guests while at the Mexican restaurant, students spruced up the night with Mexican music and samba dance while salads and mango salsa were being served to guests.
Cafe Amazonia, Nature’s Bounty, Garden Fresh, Jungle Tribe and Elemental Lily were other restaurants’ names chosen by the students.
Majority of them served salad and sandwiches in different forms and styles such as the dhokla, coleslaw and pizza sandwiches, Bombay sandwich, uttopam sandwich grilled vegetable, mini pita pocket and double-decker sandwiches and jungle noodles salad and salad in watermelon.
One of them, the Jungle Tribe, was serving an interesting drink called electric lemonade.
Speaking to Gulf Times about the exhibition, school principal Asna Nafees said the event was held to encourage students to be more environmental conscious while also appreciating healthy competition.
“This is a yearly event during which we encourage our students to compete among each other in other to foster competitive and team building spirit,” she noted.
Some of the special guests at the one-day event were Indian Engineers Association president and chairman Animesh Sarkar, senior environmentalist Dr T Bandyopadhyay, Rajeev Saksena, Abdul Sathar and Kausar Hasar Chougule.
Mou Bera was the school’s
activities co-ordinator.
