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Project SAPTAK
PROJECT SAPTAK- AN ENDEAVOUR TO EXPOSE STUDENTS TO THE VAST WORLD OF BIODIVERSITY
It was a pleasant day with overcast monsoon sky and soft soothing breeze. Just the perfect setting for exposing the students to the vast and varied world of biodiversity. Project Saptak provided an excellent opportunity to explore the rich world of plant and animal life. The children have been working ceaselessly for the last many weeks to search, to investigate, to experiment and finally to give shape to their findings in the form of PPT Presentations. On the day of the final presentation, they all had come equipped and manifested great acumens in expressing themselves. They manifested brilliant reasoning and technical skills, not to mention the outstanding communication skills, to unfathom and reveal various aspects of biodiversity. After the initial rounds held in the previous weeks, a total of 16 teams, 8 each from the Junior ( classes 6 to 8) and the Senior (classes 9 to 12) were selected to give the presentations before an esteemed panel of judges comprising Dr. M.L. Sood, retired Professor, Head of Zoology, PAU, the only person in North India to have a degree of D.Sc. to his credit, Dr. Shashi Trehan, District Science Supervisor, who has served as trainer for government in-service training programmes, Mr. Daljit Singh, who is the District Forest Officer, Ludhiana Range.
The following is the list of projects presented by the students of the Junior Group:
| Project Name |
Group Leader |
| 1. Life history silk moth |
Simran Kaur |
| 2. Tree profile of a Banyan Tree |
Niya Prabhakar |
| 3. Forests – The Green Wonders |
Rushang Gupta |
| 4. Life cycle of Praying Mantis |
Arshpreet Kaur |
| 5. Web of Life |
Sutej Bains |
| 6. Life cycle of insects |
Mokshalakshmi Bhan |
| 7. Web of Life |
Prabhdeep Kaur |
| 8. Benefits of Biodiversity |
Yashika Ajmani |
| 9. Food Chains |
Hardik |
The following is the list of projects presented by the students of the Senior Group:
| Project Name |
Group Leader |
| 1. Manmade Ecosystem – Agro Ecosystem |
Sonakshi Arora |
| 2. Aquatic Biomes (Ocean Biomes and Fresh water Biomes) |
Kanika |
| 3. The Land of the Exotic (Galapagos Island) |
Vani Jain |
| 4. Comparison of the two poles of planet with respect to their Flora and Fauna |
Moksha Mahindra |
| 5. Special habitat of unique biodiversity of Australia, Galapagos Island, Hawaii, New Guinea |
Bhavya |
| 6. Status of threatened species |
Mannat Sabharwal |
| 7. Wetlands |
Osheen Puri |
| 8. Status of threatened species |
Raunaq Jain |
All the students presented an impressive show and won the judges as well as the audience in their favour with their thoroughly- prepared presentations. The following teams emerged the winners after a rigorous process of judgment-
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