BEAMS Rocks!!

The Science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

-Edward Teller, theoretical physicist, ‘Father of the Hydrogen bomb’

Science is indeed the greatest power given to man. You are science, I am science. The cities are science, the countries are science. The mountains are science, the oceans are science, and the plants are science. Food is science, art is science, and music is science. Nature is science, our life is science. The planets, the galaxies, the universe… Everything is science.

Well, enough of the philosophy. Lets get down to business. (I don't mean to sound like a kidnapper asking for ransom, so don't think of me like that. I am just a harmless 13 year old, trying to boast about the best school in the world. On second thoughts, I don't think I need to try and boast about it, as it IS the bets school in the world.) We, the students of the greatest school in the universe, celebrated this power with a whole day (or month, because we had been preparing for it since a month) dedicated to….. (The One and Only) … SCIENCE!!

Right from the second we awoke in the morning, to the second our eyes shut at night, just one thing was on everybody’s mind – BEAMS. Since the past one month, the standard answer to the question, “What’s up?” was BEAMS.  We devoted all our energy, each spare moment and all the neurons in our brains to, you guessed it, BEAMS.

Some of our innovations...

Our sacrifices didn't go vain. We learnt umpteen things while researching for BEAMS and I don’t know whether we could have learnt otherwise. We got the opportunity to meet new people and improve our social skills by talking to them about our respective experiments. But most importantly, we had a blast on Science Day!

I got the opportunity to stay for both – the morning and afternoon shift, and believe me, those six hours were the most interesting hours of my school life till date. I turned into a total nerd, and asked many questions, because in this case, curiosity certainly did NOT kill the cat. In fact, it enriched the cat with opinions and suggestions of her own!

Our group had decorated the room that was assigned to us with bright and colourful charts with eye - catching slogans and jaw – dropping illustrations. It really intrigued the visitors and they hung around for quite a lot of time. The thing that was very well appreciated by everyone were big wooden structures that were beautifully painted by us in every corner of the room. They received a lot of praise and admiration, and the adults were nodding their heads and talking to each other about the talent in us in their quintessential adult way.

The entire school was looking festive and inviting. There was not an inch of empty space, because we had simply swathed the walls with charts and decorations. There was a huge model of a tyrannosaurus rex near the entrance, to welcome everybody in with a fierce grin. There was a lot of noise as people were yelling out to each other. (This would have been otherwise unimaginable on a regular school day!)

There was a room called, ‘ZooPedia’, in which there were various domestic animals, some of them being doves, geese, new born chicks, rabbits, white mice, fishes, baby sparrows and parrots. To our delight, we could hold the small animals and have our parents click photos of us! That was so exciting, and we rushed with our friends to see the small fluffy chicks, rabbits and white mice!

It was really amazing, looking at all our hard work and perspiration finally pay off in the form of praise from our parents. All our efforts, may they be large or tiny were duly noted and appreciated. We felt really proud, showing off our experiments and models and receiving looks of genuine interest and involvement. We enjoyed BEAMS 2015 thoroughly. We wish everybody on earth gets at least one opportunity to visit BEAMS and start Being Enthusiastic About the Magic of Science!