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).