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About Kalpana Chawla Memorial Award 2015
About Kalpana Chawla Memorial Award 2015
Kalpana Chawla was one of the role model for Biyani Girls College. They instituted
Kalpana Chawla Award in her fond memory.
It is the 9th Edition of the contest.
Kalpana Chawla Award motivates and inspires girls to achieve bigger in their life and
always be winners in their respective fields.
The award is open to all the students and the criteria to win the award is Kalpana Chawla
Award Entrance Exam which is designed in a way that it examines the analytical and
reasoning ability of the students and also their general awareness.
Topic of the Essay Competition is : "My Career Goals and Inspiration from Kalpana
Chawla"
Kalpana Chawla Award
Kalpana Chawla Memorial Awards-2015 Will be Held after the result is announced at
(Biyani Group Of Colleges "Utsav" Auditorium)
The winners would be given the cash prizes in the award function.
Dr.avul Pakir Jainulabdeen abdul kalam was born on 15th october , 1931 at Dhanushkodi in
Rameshwaram district of Tamilnadu. He did his secondary education at schwartz high school in
Ramanathapuram ,B.Sc. at St .Josephs college ,Tiruchi and DMIT in Aeronautical Enginerring at
the MIT^,Madras (chennai) during 1954 - 57.
After passing out as a graduate aeronautical engineer Kalam joined ( Hindustan Aeronautics
Limited) Banglore as a trainee , and later joined as a Techincal assistant in the directorate of
Technical Development and Production of the Ministry of defence.
In1960's kalam joined the Vikram Sarabhai Space Research center at Thumba in Kerala . he
played a major role in developing the first indigenous satellite - launched vehicle .in 1982,he
rejoined DRDO as director and conceived the integrated Guided MIssile Development
programme (IGMDP) for five indigenous missiles : Nag Prithvi ,Akash, Trishul ,AGNI.
Dr.APJ. Abdul kalam has established an advance technology research center called 'Research
Center Imarat' to undertake development in futuristic missile technology areas . it was perhaps
the most satisfying achivenent for Kalam during the missile years.
Dr. Kalam has also servd as Principal Scientific Advisdor to the government of india during 25th
novenber 1999-10 November 2001. Later , hequit the job and took over the job as distinguished
professor at Anna University .
on july 25,2002 , Dr .A.P.J Abdul Kalam was sw2orn in as the 12th president of india by chif
Justice of India Shri B.N.Kirpal in central hall of parliment at an impressive function telecaste
live across the parliment at an impressive function telecaste live across the country Dr .Kalam
took the oath in the name of God as a 21 -gun salute boomed in the background.
Dr. Kalam a bachelor is connoisseur of classicalcarnatic music . he plays veena in his leisure.He
write poetry in tamil , his mother -tongue . seventeen of him poems were translated into English
and published in 1994 as a book entitled "My journey". He reads the quran and the Bhagavad
Gita with equal devotion . he is also New Millenium , wings of Fire ; An Autobiography and
ignited Minds .
Dr. kalam is by no means a miracle man .His advice to the youngster of the nation is to "dream'
dream and convert these into thoughts and later into actions". people Also to "think big. we are a
nation of a billiuon people and we must thik like a nation of a billion people . only then can we
become big."
Srinivasa Ramanujam