Yuksam Govt School student’s research interests intl publishing house

Angela, accompanied by the Govt Secondary School , Yuksam, Headmaster Sanjoy Acharya, with her Poster presentation on CLEAN UP GUYS at YETI 2010

GANGTOK, 04 June: Local girl Angela Bhutia, a former student of Yuksam Secondary School, has received a publication offer from a German publishing house, Lap Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH and Company for her dissertation on the project CLEAN UP GUYS (Cycling Long-lived Eco-unfriendly Accumulated Non-biodegradables through United Participation for a Cleaner Unpolluted Youthful Sikkim) in the form of a book.
A press release informs that in 2009, the Yuksam Secondary School in observance of International Polar Year undertook an 8-day clean-up exercise along the Yuksam-Dzongri-Goechala trail falling under KNP of KBR and returned with 122 bags of non-biodegradable garbage.
Angela Bhutia along with co-authors Passang Kipa Bhutia and Renuka Chhetri (then in Class IX) under the guidance of Sanjoy Acharyya analyzed the findings of the exercise. The students then under the guidance of their teacher Sanju Shilal presented the result at the State-level Science Exhibition 2009 where it was adjudged as the Best Exhibit.
In a mail addressed to Angela Bhutia sent at Yuksam School’s e-mail address, Alina Covali (the Acquisition Editor of the publishing house) states that she came across Angela’s dissertation in the couse of a research on MEETYETI.
The release mentions that this is perhaps the first time in the state’s history that a school student has received such an offer. The entire Yuksam School family expresses immense happiness at the achievement which is another indicator of success of Yuksam School in recent years, it adds.
Angela, who is studying in Class XII (PCB) at Pelling SSS (West) at present, was surprised and happy on hearing the news while her Class teacher, Ayodhya Ray, also expressed happiness over the development and commented that ‘Angela is learning and shaping herself well today in preparation for a better tomorrow’.
Angela was also the only school student from the country to present a Speed Talk-cum-Poster at the prestigious YETI (Young Ecologists Talk & Interact) 2010 held at Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore).

Yuksam school’s Passang Phurba impresses all at National Conference on Biodiversity

PASSANG’S ‘PROJECT CONNECT’ CONCEPT WAS THE ONLY SCHOOL STUDENT PRESENTATION SELECTED FOR PRESTIGIOUS EVENT
GANGTOK, 19 Feb: Passang Phurba Bhutia of Govt. Sec. School, Yuksam, presented her poster ‘Project CONNECT’ at the prestigious ‘National Conference on Biodiversity Assessment, Conservation and Utilization’ hosted by the Biodiversity Department of MES Abasaheb Garware College (Pune) in collaboration with BAIF Development Research Foundation (Pune) and IISER (Pune). The conference, held from 09 to 11 February, was inaugurated by Padmabibhusan Dr. Kasturirangan (ISRO Scientist and Member of Planning Commission of India) and also attended by noted space scientist Padmabhusan Dr. Vasant Gowariker and environmentalist Padmabhusan Prof. Madhav Gadgil.
Ms. Bhutia was not only the youngest but also the only school-level participant at the prestigious event and with her passion for conservation, became the the center of attraction of the conference. The Headmaster of her school, Sanjoy Acharyya, informs that Passang’s participation was made possible by the sponsorship received from the DC West, SK Pradhan.
Passang’s poster presentation on “CONservation of Natural Environment through Culture and Tradition” (CONNECT) was well-received by various environmental scholars like Prof. Gadgil, Dr. Ankur Patwardhan, Dr. Satish Padhye and others. Notable NGO activists like BAIF Development Research Foundation President Girish Sohani and Secretary Dr. Rajarshee Joshi, and Ela Foundation President Dr. Satish Pande enjoyed her presentation, the Headmaster informs.
She was warmly received by faculty and students of the host college. Even though the competition was meant for Research Scholars, Passang was specially awarded with an ‘Encouragement Citation’ and a Cash Prize of Rs. 1,000.  She has also received an invitation to present her poster at the forthcoming National Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development to be held under the banner of Central University of Gujrat at Gandhinagar during 15th-16th March.
Even though another abstract from the same school was also selected for presentation at the conference, the student participant opted out at the last moment for health reasons, the Headmaster informs.
Eventually, Passang, apart from being the only participant from Sikkim and the only other participant from North-East, was also like a Goodwill Ambassador to the event, he highlights. The exposure was of immense importance for the student as well as the School. She brought along with her personal gifts as well as souvenirs to the School from Forest Department (Govt. of Maharashthra), Ela Foundation, PES Modern High School and her many well-wishers at Pune and proposals from many voluntary and research organizations towards various collaborative exercises with the School.
The SMDC of the School congratulated Passang on her success and has also thanked the DC-West who sponsored the exposure.

Yuksam School wins national level interschool folk dance competition

GANGTOK, 02 Jan: The Government Secondary School, Yuksam, has made the State proud and delivered the people a welcome advance New Year’s gift by bagging the first place at the recently-held mational-level Inter-School Folk Dance Competition 2011 organized by the Population Education Cell of NCERT [with co-operation from SCERTs of various states]. School troupes from Gujarat and Rajasthan took the 2nd and 3rd positions in the event held on 28 and 29 December.

Yuksam school comes second at Regional Level Folk Dance Competition

GANGTOK, 04 Nov: Govt. Secondary School Yuksam, West Sikkim has made the state proud by bagging the second position at the Regional Level Folk Dance Competition held at Srimanta Sankaradev Kalashetra, Punjabbari Guwahati on 01 November, informs a press release.

Yuksam Secondary School celebrates ‘Spirit of August of India’

GANGTOK, 03 Aug: ‘Spirit of August of India’, a fortnight long celebration commemorating the 155th anniversary of the end of East India Company rule in India following the Sepoy Mutiny – the first war for Independence - of 1857, began at the Yuksam Secondary School yesterday. Hosted at Yuksam SS in West Sikkim, with participation from all the feeder-cum-private schools under Yuksam-Dubdi GPU, the celebration was flagged off by West Zilla Adhakshya, Karma Choki Bhutia, and Budha Hang Subba, ex-Zilla Upadhakshya, both of whom are alumni of Yuksam Secondary School.

Yuksam school celebrates National Science Day

GANGTOK, 01 March: Government Secondary School, Yuksam observed the National Science Day 2011 with an exhibition on Popular Science (Hobby Electronics, Optics and Mechanics), Inter-House Science Quiz Competition and Complex-level Inter-School Painting Competition on the theme ‘Science & Technology in Human Welfare’ for the students of classes IV and V, informs a press release.

Speaking on the occasion, Headmaster Sanjoy Acharyya stressed on the need of PPP (Public Private Partnership) between remote and under-privileged schools and private academic bodies like Vinayaka Missions Sikkim University [VMSU].