Ignite Fest gives wings to dreams of students

​Hyderabad: The three-day Ignite Festival, which concluded at Narsingi School here on Wednesday, saw many students of social welfare residential schools come up with innovative solutions for a number of problems like drought, toxic effects of plastics, malnutrition, ground water depletion, genetic disorders, diabetes and cancers plaguing the world.

TSWREIS secretary Dr R.S. Praveen Kumar said: “Exposure, opportunity and attitude take people out of poverty and ignorance. Marginalised children have dreams like other advantaged children.

We need to give wings to their dreams, let us not kill their dreams”. For the last four years, the Society had been promoting different competitions at school, zonal, district and state levels to inspire and promote young budding scientists, painters, artists, writers, leaders and social reformers, he said.

TSWREIS joint secretary M Pullaiah said that sons and daughters of daily wage earners, agricultural labourers, vegetable vendors, clerks and marginal farmers were making waves in academic and sporting fields.

It was a matter of pride that today the confidence levels of the students had reached sky-high and, by scaling the world’s highest peaks, they had shown to the world that they were not inferior to anyone, he added.

A student of Social Welfare Mattampally School, N. Sirisha, said:“I hope to become a scientist one day specialising in molecular biology and I want to find a permanent solution to diabetes”.

Another student, Swarnalatha from Mahendra Hills School, said “I started speaking in English without worrying much about others.

And today, I have participated in a debate competition and spoke fluently in English to the astonishment of judges and teachers and bagged the first prize in the competition.”