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From Our Students<br />
Visit to Indian Institute of Science for<br />
“Open Day Exhibition”<br />
Every year our school conducts Science Exhibition<br />
on the National Science Day on 28th February. As<br />
per the agenda, the students exhibited a wonderful<br />
science show. The management was impressed by<br />
the exhibition. To further reward and motivate students,<br />
an outing was arranged to visit ‘The Indian Institute of<br />
Science’, Bangalore. This was an “Open Day” event to<br />
show case its activity to the students community and<br />
the general public on 5th March 2017 between 9 am<br />
and 5 pm at IISc Bangalore. The selected students got<br />
an opportunity to go round the campus and explore /<br />
experience and enjoy the activities of the IISc. As we<br />
reached the campus we were very enthusiastic and<br />
eager to see the experiments and explore the whole<br />
campus. We first came to the main building where<br />
Jamshedji’s statue was seen. He was founder of IISc.<br />
This institute was started in 1909. Every year IISc<br />
celebrates Jamshedji’s birthday as Open Science<br />
Day and this was his 178th birthday. We visited<br />
various departments like earth science where various<br />
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MMET School<br />
experiments and activities were conducted related to<br />
earth, fossil, etc. Mathematics department was filled<br />
with fun activities and brain testers. We also visited<br />
various other departments like molecular, Bio physics<br />
department, Chemistry department, Computer science,<br />
Engineering and Aero Space departments. We also got<br />
an opportunity to do some experiments which evoked<br />
curiosity and enthusiasm in us. We also participated<br />
in puzzle competition which was conducted by various<br />
departments and our students won prizes.<br />
The IISc visit was an opportunity for us to explore the<br />
world of science and technology and also to gain vast<br />
knowledge on various branches of science, its benefits,<br />
scientific application and their effect on life and society.<br />
We introduced the column “Kindle your English taste bud “ in our April 2016 issue with a view to improve the<br />
knowledge and interest in English language. Every month we will publish ten words / idioms. The readers,<br />
especially teenagers, are welcome to write sentences using the words / idioms and send to KNSS News Bulletin<br />
with contact and Karayogam details (email id: <strong>knss</strong><strong>news</strong>@gmail.com). Selected entries shall be published with<br />
the names of the sender in the subsequent issues of KNSS News Bulletin.<br />
-Editor<br />
“Kindle your English- taste bud”<br />
1. dilly-dally : anything of little importance or value proved lingeringly<br />
2. to call a spade a spade : to speak out plainly without euphemism<br />
3. as the crow flies : In a straight line – regardless of obstruction<br />
4. hanky – panky : fraud, dishonest and unfaithful dealing<br />
5. storm in a tea cup : much excitement and trouble over trivial matter<br />
6. to be at one’s wits end : to be greatly perplexed, not to know what to do in an emergency<br />
R Krishna Pillai<br />
B.A, B.Com, B.Ed<br />
7. the pot calling the kettle black : one person accusing another of fault of which he is himself guilty<br />
8. on tenter hooks : In a state of acute anxiety or suspense<br />
9. heads I win tails you loose : An arrangement which ends in the challenger remaining the winner<br />
whatever happens. A hopelessly unfair agreement.<br />
10. poke one’s nose : to peep into that which is private, to examine things with intrusive curiosity<br />
We feel happy to receive and publish selected responses for “Kindle your English- taste bud” February 2017<br />
Anil kumar Janardanan, T.Dasarahalli Karayogam, Bangalore<br />
1. To Usurp : Aurangzeb usurped the Mughal empire in a bloody coup killing his elder brother the crown prince Mir Qasim and imprisoning<br />
his father Emperor Shahjahan<br />
2. To ponder : The class teacher asked Kavitha to concentrate on the final exam rather than pondering over the low scorings in the midterm<br />
exams<br />
3. Menace : The Hoysala police squad picked up the drug peddlers and gamblers from the park causing menace to the public.<br />
4. The eleventh hour : Arvind’s mother advised him to complete his school assignments on day to day basis rather than keeping it to the<br />
eleventh hour.<br />
<strong>knss</strong> <strong>news</strong> bulletin March 2017 43
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