The science exhibition was superb. I will detail my experiences. The exhibition was called EUREKA 2K3 .As I said earlier the exhibition was planned for three days but it was extended to one more day due too overwhelming response. Inauguration

The inauguration was on Thursday morning. The chief guest was Dr M.Arumugam, director of National Institute of Technology (REC renamed). The Post master general was also there to release stamps of monfortian mission. Apart from these Ms.Sunaina Mandeen(MD,Nexus computers), a old student was the guest of honour. The principal briefed the main reasons of conducting the exhibition. One for the 100th year of monfortian mission and another is that RSK is entering its 40th year.

Inter school projects
The projects were divided into two. Inter school projects and Intra school projects. For the Inter school competition more than 16 schools participated. They had participated in the fields of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology . There was two categories � 9th and 10th &11th and 12th. The prizes were also given for the best projects on the closing day. All the projects were innovative. The interschool projects were displayed in the monfortian hall,the newly built hall. Don't wonder where it might have been constructed. It is just a reconstruction made on the supw, ncc, commerce classes next to the old biology lab.

Intra school projects
The intra school projects were displayed from 1st std to 12th std. They had three divisions primary school, junior school, main school. They had displayed on all the subjects they have in syllabus including SUPW, arts, languages. It was so nice to see the tiny tots explaining their project.

Highlights
The highlight of the exhibition was the Air show, as they called it. About 13 students of 12th std had made an aircraft under the guidance of an aeronautical engineer. It is about 4 feet in length. It was made to fly by remote control. It had an 2.9 cc engine and a capacity of 280ml. It can fly upto a height of 3000ft. It also had a small camera used to view the birds or the land below. It was a superb show for 20 minutes. It was really appreciable to take such an effort. The next thing was openheart surgery. It was shown by a projector in a classroom. Then they had skeleton dance, puppet show etc to entertain the people coming. They also had food stall put by hotel Sangam and some more stalls were put by sponsors.

The response
The crowd was too large than they expected. On the first day only people around trichy turned up. The next day 34 schools came to see it. About 35000 people came on Friday. On Saturday schools from nagapatinam, tanjore, chengalpattu, lalgudi, karur etc came. People were overflowing. So the school decided to extend for one more day on Sunday.

Valediction
Though it was extended to Sunday the closing ceremony was on Saturday evening. The trichy collector and executive director of BHEL were the chief guests. The collector greatly appreciated the efforts. Our principal briefed all the events and said about what made him think about a science exhibition. When Dr A.P.J. ABDUL KALAM was the president elect (ie) just one week before he became president, he had come to trichy. He was staying in bhel guest house. Our principal met him and asked him to give a lecture to our students. He agreed and gave a 45 minutes speech to our 10th, 11th , 12th. So from that time he wanted to give students an opportunity, which would make them future scientists.

At that time one of our old student Mr B.V.RAMANAN (MD,liviya polymers) also came forward with this idea. He was the main cause for the eureka2k3. He was helping principal an all ways, planning out and everything. Many of our old students around trichy and other districts were generous enough to sponsor for the eureka2k3. Like, students of 1983 sponsored the prizes. It would not have been so successful without their help.

To sum it all it was a very grand exhibition, which has created history. It has made Rsk to regain its glory. It was the talk of the town for the past one week. All the leading newspapers had published about this with colour photos. All the teachers were working enthusiastically. The whole school was decorated so beautifully. The school was in a festive mood. And it has made me sigh why at all there was no such event in my period.