DNA Club
of Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 1. Port Blair has become a
unique body in the Vidyalaya and among all the schools
of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which is supported by
Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Nature study SACON)
& Department of Biotechnology, Government of India .
Students are very much enthusiastic and eager to take
part in all activities of DNA Club. This is
because the way they start doing the work, the way they
investigate, the way they analyze the things, what they
have observed, what they have learnt, what they have to
investigate and so on. Parents are really showing
and showering the cooperation and affection when ever
and where ever and what so form it is required for
carrying out the activities.
Mainly the club activities are ordered and executed in
the form of :
i)
Lab experiments,
ii)
Field observations,
iii)
Field visits including visits to scientifically
worthy places in and around Port Blair.
iv)
Group Projects.
v)
Info Tech world.
vi)
Guest Lectures.
i)
Lab Experiments: Students have been
experimenting in the lab with the help of the equipments
available in the school labs , some of the
equipments provided by SACON such as Water testing
Kit, Haemometer, Hygrothermometer etc. The following
are the activities undertaken by the members :
A)
Blood testing for blood groups.
B)
Water testing for hardness of water and salts
present in it.
C)
Recording the Minimum Temperature and Maximum
temperature, humidity at Port Blair.
D)
Onion root tips for DNA
E)
Internal structure (Anatomy) of flowering Plants etc.
ii)
Field Observations:
Students have their own observations note books to
record the observations what ever they observe and
notice during their natural walk in and around Port
Blair pertaining to their individual or group Projects
such as Bird Watching, Butterfly Watching etc.
iii)
Field visits including visits to
scientifically worthy places in and around Port Blair:
It is an interesting activity for the members of DNA
club of our Vidyalaya to visit various scientifically
worthy places in and around Port Blair to observe
the things personally and learn from it. We are
very much thankful to the Department of Biotechnology,
Govt. of India, and SACON for providing such opportunity
by their financial support to visit the labs and other
scientifically worthy places. The following are
the some of the places visited so far:
a)
Zoological Survey of India. Port Blair.
b)
Anthropological Museum. Port Blair.
c)
Biological Park, Chidiatapu.
d)
Carbyn’s cove for the study of Marine Life.
e)
Mahatma Gandhi Children’s Park for the study of
Butterflies, Flowering Plants etc.
f)
Chidiatapu beach .
iv) Group Projects: Students have
been divided with in the Group-I, and Group- II and
students have their own group Projects to work on.
Being the man of Physics, Mr. D. R. Meena, Principal of
the Vidyalaya has become the man of
inspiration to start the projects in an investigatory
and analytical manner. He has been personally
monitoring the projects and encouraging the student to
take the project work seriously and make the difference
with the other routine projects going on in the school
and he says to become exemplary persons for others.
Some of the projects undertaken by our students are:
i)
Pollution and spread of Communicable
diseases: Group –I students have been working on
the Pollution related problem in and around Port Blair .
They identified some areas where open drainages have
become serious threat to the public of Port Blair and
going to finalize the report on it along with the
evidences in the form of photographs to submit to the
Honorable Lieutenant Governor of the Islands and to the
Municipal Chairman, PBMC for immediate action to cover
the open drains or to modernize with underground
drainage system to avoid various communicable diseases
such as malaria.
ii)
Bird watching: House
sparrow, common myna, Butterflies. etc.
iii)
Importance of Mangrove plants as coastal
defense personnel.
iv)
Mushroom culture.
v)
Biodiversity of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
vi)
Medicinal Plants of Andaman and Nicobar
Islands.
vii)
Flora and fauna of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
viii)
Making and maintenance of Aquarium.
Etc.,
V. Info Tech world: We are very thankful
to the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan to provide us with
online communication system among the Kendriya
Vidyalayas through Oracle Education Foundation.
Students have been registered in www.Thinkquest.com and
each member has the accessibility to upload the
information with him/her in his/her web pages in the
“thinkquest” portal. It is the interest of the
students to upload the project works and other
activities of the DNA Club in their web pages and they
wanted to make it available for the global people across
the globe. Shri. D. R. Meena , Principal of the
Vidyalaya has been graciously permitting the members of
DNA Club to use the internet facility available in
the Vidyalaya for such useful activities without any
time constrain.
VI. Guest Lectures: DNA Club has
been arranging the guest lectures from locally available
resource persons to enrich the knowledge of the students
either pertaining to their projects or any other
scientific matters.
Dr. Devkumar Bhadra, From Institute of Geomagnetism has
given lecture on Biodiversity , study of Seismic waves,
effects of Tsunami etc. to our students and it was very
interesting as the lecture has been delivered with the
help of LCD Projector available in the school.
Mr. Rajan , Research scholar has always been
with us to monitor the works regularly and guide our
students as and when needed.
Mr. Xavier delivered guest lecture on Personal Development
and it is very much appreciated by all our members as
his lecture has transformed the students from being
introverts to vibrant personalities.
Dr. Pramod, Principal coordinator of DNA Clubs in
andamans , is really igniting and inspiring the
young minds of our DNA Club members to progress in their
work without bothering about any kind of hurdles come
across their path of progress . Whenever he visits the
Andamans and our members he gives lectures, takes our
students to nature study and takes them the world
of scientific temperament. Recently on 4th
December he visited along with Mr. Xavier and
reviewed the progress of the activities and delivered
lecture on all the on going projects for further
improvement and investigation.
We are happy to receive Desktop, Digital Camera ,literature on
birds and other essential devices such as Water
testing Kit, Haemometer, Hygrothermometer, from Dr.
Pramod, Principal coordinator of DNA Clubs in
andamans. And we ensure that the things will yield the
fruits in its due course of time.
We hope that the Department of Biotechnology will
support our future scientists to work with the right
spirit by providing technological and monitory support
for the activities and projects of DNA Clubs in
Andamans and at other places across the country.
S.NO |
NAME OF THE STUDENT |
CLASS |
REMARKS |
1 |
VINAY
NARAYAN |
VI |
|
2 |
SUBRAMANYAM |
VI |
|
3 |
ANKUSH |
VI |
|
4 |
SREE
HARI |
VI |
|
5 |
NEETU |
VI |
|
6 |
DIPTI |
VI |
|
7 |
SHUBHAM |
VI |
|
8 |
NADEEM |
VI |
|
9 |
M. SURYA
TEJA |
VI |
|
10 |
BHARATH |
VII |
|
11 |
SARAN |
VII |
|
12 |
PRABOL |
VII |
|
13 |
U.SARAVANA |
VII |
|
14 |
SANGEETHA |
VII |
|
15 |
PRIYANKA |
VII |
|
16 |
SOUMICK |
VII |
|
17 |
RISHAB |
VII |
|
18 |
MANYU J.
VERMA |
VIII |
|
19 |
DEEPAK |
VIII |
|
20 |
SUSMOY
DAS |
VIII |
|
21 |
TANNU |
VIII |
|
22 |
RICHIT |
VIII |
|
23 |
MADHUBALA |
VIII |
|
24 |
TAMANASH |
VIII |
|
25 |
SREYA |
VIII |
|
26 |
VAISHALI |
VIII |
|
27 |
MANEESHA |
VIII |
|
28 |
SANDHYA |
VIII |
|
29 |
VIVEK |
VIII |
|
30 |
POOJA
BISWAS |
VIII |
|
31 |
SARABJIT |
VIII |
|
School Co-ordinator: 01. M.T.
Raju.PGT(Bio).
