A race to victory
All Girls Team From Amity Shines At The F1 Championship
Team Urja, an all-girls team from Amity, comprising three Class X students, namely Sanjana Chauhan (AIS Noida), Samara Chauhan (AIS PV), and Samaya Chauhan (AIS PV), bagged the Best Practices of Project Management Award at F1 in Schools World Championship held from September 4-18, 2023, in Singapore. Project Management is an integral part of F1 in Schools competition, in which participating teams have to prepare a project report in the form of a portfolio and showcase how they initiated, planned, executed, monitored, and closed it. Team Urja bagged the award by beating the teams from Saudi Arabia and Australia. The team was also nominated for the women in motorsports award and had earlier bagged first runner-up award at the national level competition. Impressed with their performance, a jury member, on her social media, wrote, “It was one of the best meets I had with the team from India. Not only had they designed, funded, and made a super speedy racing car, they had also calculated the carbon footprint of this competition and planted trees to balance it off.”
The event organised by F1 in Schools Limited, a social enterprise, saw participation from 68 countries. It is the only global multi-disciplinary challenge in which teams of students aged 9-19 years use CAS/CAM software to design, analyse, manufacture, test, and race miniature compressed air-powered cars made from F1 model block. The feat has been achieved under the visionary leadership of Dr (Mrs) Amita
Chauhan, Chairperson, Amity Group of Schools and RBEF, who always inspires Amitians to be innovative.
Scientific supremacy
With notepads and pen ready, four GT reporters from AIS Noida grabbed the opportunity to have a quick byte with Dr Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Science and Technology during the inaugural ceremony of the prestigious S-20 conference (under the aegis of G-20), held at Amity University, Noida. Here’s a glimpse of the brief chat.
The master of multitasking
I think I am a jack of all trades, master of none. The different stages in my life urged me to explore diverse professions. It was the interest in these professions that made me chase them. And my inquisitive nature has helped me to experience the challenges that come along the way.
The novel initiatives by him
Ministry of Science and Technology has been working on numerous initiatives. The latest one is the successful landing of Chandrayaan 3. The world is abuzz with our achievement. It is a testimony to the collective acumen of India’s incredible scientific temperament. Apart from this, we have other missions as well such as Indian Quantum Mission and National Research Foundation.
India a superpower
Under the leadership of our PM Narendra Modiji, India has attained remarkable achievements in the field of science and technology. In 2014, the country had 350 start-ups but today we have more than 1.25 lakh start-ups and 130 Unicorns. Our space economy is currently at 8 billion dollars and is estimated to reach 40 billion dollars by the year 2040. Not to miss India’s Presidency of G-20 is a matter of pride for the whole country. And I firmly believe, the youth must take lead and become the torchbearers of capacity building in the S&T sector of the country.
Interview conducted by: Yashi Sharma, XII J, Shrish Verma, Twisha Prasad & Anarghya Panwar, XI I, AIS Noida
