As a kid I grew with fascination of being a scientist . but I never tried for it ..i was so lazy .
But when I was in my 10th , I read APJ abdul kalam’s wings of fire.. I was deeply moved by the book. It instilled a kind of enthusiasm and patriotism in me . I soon wanted to be a missile scientist like kalam. In that quest, I started to pay more attention in physics ,read more articles on Indian missiles etc.when ever a new missile was included in the army , the next day newspaper would give a brief about it. I used to read those twice and thrice … it was a kind of fascination to me.
When I was in 11th std , ISRO as part of space week celebrations conducted a contest for students at school level. The competition was to do a project of Indian satellites : ARYABHATTA TO CHANDRAYAAN.Chandrayaan was not launched at that time.
The competition included 3 rounds .1) project 2) paper presentation, 3)quiz. The winner would get scholarships from ISRO and will be given training in Chandigarh .The competition included some of the best schools all over kerala.
We (me and few of my classmates) together made a project on the topic and submitted it and got approved .Thus we got selected for the 2nd round.
We made the paper presentation on the topic and presented it before the some of the dignitaries from ISRO at Engineers hall ,kanakakunnu ,kerala. It was a great experience for me , as I could interact with some of the brains in ISRO…
But in the quizzing section we could not win and was ousted from the competition .. but it was big step towards my dream to join ISRO..
As a 11th std student it was the biggest opportunity ,then to show my talent .. though we could not win that competition ,it was one of the toughest I have faced so far …
Now when I look back to school life this incident comes to my mind first …
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