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Amritsar, Feb 21 (Punjab Post Bureau)- A simple indigenous invention of a wireless mobile charger and a working model of compressed air socket which can simulate rocket takeoff, by students prompted the Delhi Public school to launch an incubation lab in the school premises.
Mr IP Singh Vice Chairman of the School Managing committee in the presence of Mr Aakash Khandelwal member school managing committee and school Principal Ms Sangeeta Singh gave credit to young creative students while inaugurating the specialized lab in school aimed to encourage young enthusiasts to give shape to their innovative thoughts and creative ideas by inventing new gadgets of significance. Mr Khandelwal said “The idea is to give wings of practicality to the flights of creative imagination. It is a multi-specialty lab that includes provisions for science, robotics, IT and Mathematics departments. Its purpose is to push the innovative ideas of students by providing them with the required tools.”
In his address Mr IP Singh asked –“So, what is going to be incubated here? There will be innovative thoughts and ideas that would hatch from here to turn into innovative products.” The principal explaining about the lab said –“As a collective lab of different disciplines it provides basic tools required for the job that includes desktop computers to facilitate online access.” And added –“Students can create new software programmes and carry out research. Apart from a robotics unit that is equipped with electronic, mechanical and astronomical components. Power supply includes LED strips and bread boards to make circuits. The mechanical tools include pliers, renches, screw-driver and nut bolt sets, gears, leavers, pulleys etc for mechanical gadgets. The lab is also equipped with a gyroscope (a spinning wheel or disc in which the axis of rotation is free to assume any orientation by itself) is also provided for understanding torque and angular momentum relating to force and rotation.
A separate unit for space exploration provides astronomical telescope, lunar-walker as pay load of the rocket that also includes a robotic section”, she explained.
