My Inspiration! My Vision!

My Inspiration! My Vision!

It was about three weeks after the earthquake that the classes resumed. I had started my courses with full speed. It was a regular morning when I would go to my class and start off with the lessons. My first hour is in class 8. The sstudents of Class 8 has these little childish behaviours and is more playful in nature. I finished with the attendance of the students and was about to start the lesson. One of the students jumped and said, ‘ Oh Sunil, tero boat miss lai dekha na!’ (Sunil show your boat to miss) I was surprised thinking why these students are so fascinated by this boat. Then I felt may be they are trying to have some fun to skip their lessons. Then I said, “No boats, we must cover our course.” Then the other said, “Miss hernus na kasto khatra ko boat cha, tapai ni chadhna milcha.”(Look at it miss, its really good one, even you can have a trip on it) Then I was sure they are just fooling around so to prove their statement I requested Sunil to show his boat to me. Sunil Deshar, is my average student of class 8 who is significantly improving in Mathematics and other subjects as well. Sunil took out his boat and showed me. I was utterly surprised to see his boat.

Sunil Deshar with his first Electrical Water Boat.

Electrical Water Boat.

It was an electrical water boat made by himself. I asked how he made it. Then he said he made it all by himself without help of any books or any DIYs that can be found in youtube. He made it during the holidays of earthquake for occupying his mind. Then I asked the reason behind his innovation and he said that he wants to be a mechanical engineer in the future so he is trying innovative ideas from now on.

Sunil joininig wires to battery fordemonstration.

The body of the boat was a plastic bottle of a cold drink, there is a main fan at the tail of his boat, on the sides there were two medical plastic bottles that were attached with the body which had fans on either side. The main fan would push the boat forward, the side fans helped to navigate the directions of the boat and the wires were all tangled inside the body giving power to the fans. The main fan was from the unused CPU and he made side fans using light plastic boards. He didn’t have the small battery so he used the big battery to provide power to the boat. It was really beautiful. Then we went to demonstrate his innovation in the fountain of the school on the water. It was amazing. The boat worked really well.  This boat was simple yet very innovative. And most important it was very important for me because it was innovated by my student.

Sunil on demonstration of his Electrical water boat to his friends.

Through out this two years fellowship, I had been facilitating my students about mathematical theories, ways to solve them and most prominently I always tried to link every subject matter with real life and motivated them to practice all the theories they studied practically in every possible way. I wanted them to expand their learning through new innovation discovered by themselves, be proactive and encourage them to further their learning process beyond school premises. When I saw Sunil invent his first electrical boat in history of Jyotidaya Coperative Secondary School, I felt my effort of those two years is worth it. I don’t know how much and how many students I have been able to touch the lives of but to know that there is this one student who is equally making an effort radiates my energy utmost. Moreover, I am highly inspired by Sunil and his determination. I think this is what I wanted to bring about a change in my school. With the favourable school environment, I want to make my students leaders, inventors and explorers in the field of their interest. This is my vision for my students.