Media Release
New Delhi, Oct 17: SPACE has always been closely associated with the Ryan Group of Institutions and it was a moment of great pride as students from six of Ryan Schools were felicitated for their great achievements for discovering asteroids during this year - 2011.
On Friday October 14, SPACE organized the All India Asteroid Search Campaign ‘Felicitation ceremony’ to award and congratulate all the students who performed and participated in the campaign.
Distinguished guests from the field of Science and Technology were present for the ceremony namely, Chief guest, Tim Neely, chief environment, science & technology affairs Embassy of United States of America and guest of honours were Dr Vinita Sharma, scientist G & head, National GLP Compliance Monitoring Authority/ Science for Equity, Empowerment & Development (SEED) division, department of science and technology, Anuj Sinha, honorary director, Vigyan Prasar and Dr N Rathnashree, director, Nehru Planetarium, Delhi. Snehal Pinto of Ryan Group spoke encouraging words on the occasion to thank and appreciate the achievements of the Ryanites at this forum.
SPACE specifically lauded participating Ryan schools to have accomplished great levels of achievements. They had several achievements like provisional and preliminary asteroid discoveries, NEO Confirmations and NEO Observations. Chintan Betrabet, Umang Bhatia, Abhishek Arora, Darpan Bansal, Mihir Chawla, Gobind Deep Singh, Chhayank Satija, Yash Baheti, Amar Chopra, Pratyush Jain, Vrinda Bhargava, Kshitij Jain and Vaibhav Sharma from Ryan International Schools – Vasant Kunj, Sohna Rd, Rohini, Noida, Mayur Vihar and Faridabad from the capital city were the Ryan Students honoured for the asteroid discovery.
“These discoveries don’t come easy. They require a lot of hard work and zeal”, Dr Patrick Miller of International Astronomical Search Collaboration, USA, inspired and interacted with the students through a Skype session while Sachin Bahmba, general secretary, SPACE encouraged the students to perform in this Space Age.