NASA visit kindles dreams in school children

Updated on: Monday, May 07, 2012

It was literally a journey through space and time for 31 boys and 19 girls of a school at Tiruchengode, who visited National Aeronautics and Space Administration in U.S.A as part of a 53 member team.
  
The students of Vidyaa Vikas Educational Institutional Trust, speaking at a felicitation function at their school, said they had stayed for three days at the NASA Space research after arriving there on April 11 on a 14 day trip. They learnt Rocket technology, rocket launching techniques, Satellite technology and its function in orbit.
  
They said they also interacted with astronauts and were later given certificates by NASA, something which is considered quite prestigious.
  
The students said their visit had kindled a desire in them to pursue research to discover something new and make the country proud. Some also harboured a desire of going to the moon.
 
The Managing Trustees said the mission of this expedition was to develop a scientific bent of mind, develop an analytical attitude and encouraging one's potential to invent new things.

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