More than 7,500 students attend e-SAITED 2021

SAI International Education Group hosted the 5th edition of one of India’s biggest K-12 Science and Technology fests SAITED 2021, virtually on Saturday, September 11, 2021 with the theme “The Journey To Infinity and Beyond”.

This was a day-long, student driven event managed by the students of classes XI and XII from the science stream with handholding support from mentors. The teams were divided into six corporate structured groups each with a different portfolio and headed by a Director. There was a Marketing team, a Finance team, an Advertising team, IT team, Logistic team and Research team. The annual event gave the students a mega platform to discuss and showcase their ideas, experiences, observations and findings through various activities.

 This year’s event hosted over 7500 students from 300+ schools across India and overseas showcasing more than 120 projects at the Science exhibition. Schools from Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya Sangathan were a part of this mega event along with the National Progressive schools of India and Round Square Schools from India and abroad.

 The brainchild of the Founder-Chairman, SAI International Education Group, Late Dr. Bijaya Kumar Sahoo, SAITED started in the year 2016 is now India’s largest school-based science and technology festival.

The annual event SAITED was divided into two segments, one included science-based activities, workshops, competitions. The other was TED Talks, MED Talks in which experts in the field of Science, technology and medicines gave valuable inputs to the students.  Activities like Tech Fair – Science and Technology were exhibited on the theme ‘Sustainable Development Goals 2030’.

The other activities were  TED Q – Science Quiz, Science Debate, Science Acapella, If I were, JAM, Science Up Comedy, Arguably the Best, Trash to Treasure,  Mathemaze that involved solving mathematical puzzles and riddles to navigate a maze, workshops on Aeromodelling, Virtual Reality, Robotics Coding, Forensic Science & Moon Walking, and Fun Games with  myriad of interesting science-based games also gave a unique blend of fun with learning.

 e-SAITED aimed to promote STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Maths), orient, educate, and prepare school students towards becoming future innovators, researchers, consultants, and designers in their preferred field. Students got an opportunity to present their ideas and research works based on the theme and obtained valuable advice to strengthen their work.

eSAITED 2021 was graced by international and national luminaries that included Prof. Michael D. Smith, Professor of Information Technology and Marketing at Carnegie Mellon University from USA,   Dr. Karen Yeates co-Founder and co-Director of the Queen’s University School of Medicine Office of Global Health, Canada, Dr. Prasant Mohapatra, the Vice-Chancellor at the University of California, Davis, USA who addressed the students in the inaugural session.

The event gave the students an excellent opportunity to interact with luminaries from the field of research, engineering, medicine, health and technology from across the globe and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. The event finally culminated with a Stand-Up Comedy performance by a renowned Comedian Kumar Varun, for participants to enjoy and unwind themselves from the months of hard work put in by them.

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