Volume 2: Issue 1 November 2008

Better future with Biotechnology

By Anirudh J, Student Reporter
Exons 2008 - Biotechnology expo organised by the
Biotech Club of Sankara of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary
School was held for two days on Nov. 3 and 4, 2008.
The expo was inaugurated by Dr.Sultan Ahmed Ismail,
Soil biologist, Director of Ecoscience Research
Foundations and HOD of Biotech dept, New college,
Chennai.
The principal Smt.Subala Ananthanarayanan,
welcomed the chief guest. Dr. Sultan Ahmed Ismail gave
a keynote address on ‘Biotechnology-Promises and Perils’
which was an eye opening session for students and after
that presentation, the chief guest released the biotech
magazine ‘Shrishti - Genesis of a new era’ published by
Amritha of class 11, explaining the ground water contamination model.
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Whats in the city
Number Fun Nov. 15 at 1.30 pm
The World of Titan, Purasawalkam is organising a
Sudoku contest for school children studying in classes 9 to
12. Four members can form a team and each school can
send two teams. Four Sudoku puzzles are to be solved
within the given time.
Registration at phone nos. 2640 3624 or 2821 1705.

Magic of stories Nov 8 to 16.

Odyssey Bookstore is celebrating Children’s day for a

week with stories. Amazing stories will be narrated by
charming storytellers. There are also book reading
sessions, story writing competitions, craft workshops and
more.
Contact Odyssey at Abhiramapuram - 4553 4030,
Adyar - 2440 2264, Anna Nagar - 4261 1473,
Tiruvanmiyur - 4203 7799

Residential art camp Nov 15, 16

A residential camp on painting, sculpture, clay

modelling and wheel pottery for the children in the age
group 8 to 12 years will be held at DakshinaChitra. The
camp will also have yoga sessions and other traditional
activities.Fee for the camp is Rs. 1500 inclusive of
materials, food and stay for two days and one night.
Details at 98417 77779

To know all the events, workshops, contests, visit

www.yocee.in/whatsup.php

Better future ...

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the Biotech club of Sankara. Sri. V.S. Dhandapani
secretary of Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School
received the first copy of the magazine.
A presentation elaborating various streams of
biotechnology taken up in Exons 2008 was presented by
Ananthanarayan of Class 12. Students displayed models
and charts covering various disciplines of biotechnology
like Clinical microbiology and explained on Effect of neem
on wound infections, pathogenesis of HIV, Cholera,
Amoebiasis and microbial toxins.
Biochemical characterisation of microbes,
differentiation of bacterial cell walls, Actinomycetes were
also explained. In Immunology, topics covered were
transplantation, types of allergic reactions, protocol for
plant genome DNA and Protein and DNA bands were
shown to students.
Read full story at http://yocee.in/schoolbuzz.php
A festival to
celebrate children
Just not a day but a whole month is devoted to children
to bring out their talents to the open.
NalandaWay Foundation, a creative media NGO that
works with low-income, marginalised children and help
them overcome challenges to do extra-ordinary things.
They are organising a children’s festival, ‘Art, arattai,
aarpattam’. The event is held in partnership with UNICEF
between November 14 and December 7, 2008.
During the festival, NalandaWay children’s group will
perform street plays in various parks across the city.
Children mentored by the wellknown artist and art
director Thotta Tharani will express their ideas through
art, illustrations and messages. Graffiti will be painted by
children on the outer wall of the US Consulate, Chennai
on November 29 and 30.
There will be a concert by the NalandaWay Children’s
Music Band on November 15, at 7 pm. At Sir Mutha
Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall, Lady Andal School
premises. The children performing in the concert have
been rescued from bonded labour, slavery and trafficking.
Popular drummer Sivamani will participate in this event.
A mobile audio recording booth will travel across the
city schools, communities, public spaces, and residential
complexes and children can share ideas on how to keep
their streets, homes and the city clean and safe.
There are also Story telling and Story writing
competitions for school children in partnership with AID
India and Growing Opportunity.
For more details, contact NalandaWay Foundation,
AE 49, Ist Floor, First Street, Anna Nagar or
call 98844-99196 or 99625-25286.
Email: nalandaway@gmail.com
Refreshments at
P. S. Senior By Sruti S, Student Reporter
For a long time, the idea of having an eatery within the
school premises was not encouraged by the school
authorities at the P. S. Senior Secondary School, Mylapore
so as to discourage the children having junk food.
But it is felt that the children who take up sports
activities and coaching classes need light refreshments
after the school hours. The children were going to nearby
eateries to have during the peak hours of traffic.
To avoid this the school has now opened a canteen on
Nov. 5.
The canteen sells samosas, juices and some snacks
currently. Principal of the school, Mrs. Lakshmi
Srinivasan plans to arrange for nutritious food stuff to
make the children feel energetic.
Krishna, the SPL of the school was instrumental in
implementing this idea.
The canteen is open on weekdays from 2.30 pm to 3.30
pm.
It’s reading time folks!
There are many libraries in Chennai. But some are
different and have books on specialised topics of interest.
Here are a few libraries you can go to if you are
looking for books on exclusive topics for your school
projects, reference or just for the pleasure of reading!
Old Book’s gallery
Located at 121, St. Mary’s Road, Abhiramapuram,
Chennai – 28, it is at the junction, where St. Mary’s Road
meets C. P. Ramaswami Road.
The library has scheme for lifetime student
membership.
Phone: 4353 6949
P. K. Srinivasan
Mathematics Library
An exclusive library of mathematics books, set up in
memory of maths enthusiast and teacher P. K. Srinivasan.
Address: 14/20, 25th Street, Thillaiganga Nagar,
Nanganallur.
U. Ve. Swaminatha Iyer
Library
Librar
Exclusive Tamil library of collections by the scholar
‘Thamizh thatha’ U. Ve. Swaminatha Iyer.
It has more than 3000 manuscripts and 1800 books in
Tamil.
Open to public only for reference. The library does not
lend manuscripts or books.
Timings 10 am to 4.30 pm. Sunday Holiday.
Located at No. 2, Arundale Beach Road, Besant Nagar,
Chennai - 40.
Phone: 2491 1697
Bookworms’ librar
library
This private library has a static library at their
premises, a ‘Library on Wheels’ that comes to your
apartment complex on request and online library too.
It is at 334/B, Lakshmanasamy Salai, KK Nagar.
Phone: 2489 9779
Open Tuesday Through Sunday - 9am to 8pm. Monday
is weekly holiday.
Check out all the fun places to go at
www.yocee.in/fundestination.php
Keep ThinkEng By Saniya Surana, Student Reporter

On the last day of October,

students of class 9 B of the
PSBB, Nungambakkam
school, hosted an English ISA
Project titled – ‘Keep
ThinkEng’.

Part of the International

School Award project, the
event began at 9.30 am, right
after the Social Science Unit
Test.
Five students and two
teachers from the Highcliffe
School in the UK visited the
Project which consisted of
five sections namely, -
PuzzlEng Thoughts, which
had different word games and
information about Toponyms,
Janus Words, Kangaroo
words and Beheaded words.
India’. Qurbani – The Sacrifice of a young girl, Legendary
Next was the literature corner which had beautifully Seven, One Heart, A Cop’s Undertaking, Jai Jawan Jai
crafted invitations, lost and found notices based on ‘The Kisan and A Reconciliation were the stories written and
Necklace’, a short story by the French author – Guy De presented at the event.
Maupassant. The students also got to have an insight to
the life of the author. Authors’ chair, looked upon as the core of the project
was next in the line. Two teachers Mrs. Cat Stone and
‘Melting Thoughts’ was a section based on creative Mr. Nigel posed questions to the young authors. The
endorsements. ‘Woven Thoughts’ was the centre of Puppet show, a conversation between Tintin and Archie,
attraction, where students of the class had penned down summarised the project.
short stories around the theme ‘Sacrifice for our country -
The visitors from the UK were impressed by
the authors’ short stories and answers. They
gave a very encouraging feedback. As a gesture,
the visitors gifted each author a postcard,
depicting important landmarks of the United
Kingdom.
What are the kids doing?
If you think that today’s kids are ‘all books and no Saniya
play’ think again! Surana,
Raman
They are also into sports and arts. But a few are Sathiapalan,
creating their own community to spread messages on Sheba
issues concerning them, the news they want to share or Samuel and
just-for-fun writing! Varsha
Mohan write
The way they have chosen is to blog! regularly on
their blogs.
Blog or ‘web log’ is space available on the Internet. While serious
Some are free spaces and some come with a fee. Blogger, topics like
Wordpress, TypePad or a few to mention. abolishing the
homework in
schools,
Reaching out to create managing the
waste and

awareness new
technology on
Vasudha Mishra, a student of class 6 the web are
at PSBB, KK Nagar, initiated a Child Rights awareness written by the
programme along with student volunteers of her school kids, there are also posts describing their birthdays and
recently. She shares her experience. annual days at their schools and a trip to a landmark
place!
Saniya’s blog is here
- http://aspireblog.wordpress.com
Raman writes at
- http://www.ramansideas.blogspot.com
Sheba blogs at
- http://smartsugar.wordpress.com
Varsha writes here
- http://varshamohan.blogspot.com

They also keep changing the look of their blogs

periodically and publish links to other interesting blogs.

An Out Reach programme at the MGR Nagar
Corporation School was initiated by me along with
Vishruth, Keerthana Kumar and Priyadarshini.J, the
student volunteers from PSBB KK Nagar, on
September 11, with the help of the school management
authorities.
Being the Horlicks WizKid representing Chennai this
is one of my projects on Child Rights awareness.
Through meaningful dialogue, the volunteers made a
promising start to create an awareness in the students of
the less privileged section on topics like Freedom ,
Responsibility and Child Labour.
Read the full story at www.yocee.in/cityroundup.php
What you can do?
Read the blogs and discuss the issues by leaving a
comment on the posts. There could be healthy discussions
leading to solutions to important issues through these
comments.
Or you might just hit an innovative idea to celebrate
your birthday.
Or just you could make friends with other kids of your
age!
Watch out this space
to know more interesting websites and blogs
on the Internet
Artemis Fowl And
The Time Paradox
Author : Eoin Colfer
Publisher : Puffin
Price : Rs 395
No. of pages : 369
Book review by Raman Sathiapalan, Student Reporter
As all Fowl fans know, Artemis Fowl
and the Time Paradox is the sixth book in
the Artemis Fowl series, written by Eoin
(pronounced ´Owen´) Colfer. The series
describe the various misadventures of
the young Irish criminal mastermind,
Artemis Fowl II. When he was twelve
years old, Artemis Fowl kidnapped a
fairy named Holly. And using his brains, he
tricked the fairy folk into giving him a large amount of
gold as ransom. After that, through a string of dangerous
coincidences, Artemis Fowl becomes Holly Short´s good
friend and ceases to be a threat to the fairy folk, or People,
as they call themselves.
Hi-tech fairies, goblin revolutions, monstrous trolls and
fierce demons... Artemis thought he´d seen it all. He was
wrong. Now, he faces his greatest challenge yet.
The book opens in Fowl Manor, three years after
Artemis´s return from Hybras, the land of the demons. He
now has two twin brothers, Beckett and Myles.
Read full review and more book reviews at
www.yocee.in/booknook.php
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From the
editorial desk
Hi young friends!
This November is special at YOCee.
Your favourite hub on the Internet is entering into the
third year.
Also the print newsletter celebrates its first anniversay!
The newsletter was born out of the ideas of children
who wanted to have a reference in paper as to where to
find what on YOCee and jot down contact numbers for
reference.
So in November 2007 we introduced a quarterly
publication in print as a sneak preview of the website
www.yocee.in. And from now on it will be a monthly
publication to tell you what happens in the city and who
makes news currently.
Remember, this print edition will just help you browse
the sections of www.yocee.in, which is updated daily and
as and when something interesting for kids happens!
If you like this mini YOCee, do tell us. Drop an email
to editor@yocee.in.
Also, do share this newsletter with your friends. They
would also love to experience all that you do!
You can also get limited copies from a few places.
Query us, we will guide you as to where to pick up the
copy close-by your home or school.
Do you know, you can also tell us or write to us about
events and happenings for kids you come across? And you
can also send in your creative art works? And find them on
the webiste or in the newsletter!
A digital copy of the newsletter is also available on the
website. If your friends have missed it this time, guide
them to www.yocee.in/newsletter.php
For now, enjoy all the Children’s Day events held
across the city!
Till we meet again around this time next month, it’s bye
from . . .
Revathi
Editor
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