The Indian Express appreciates Inventure Academy's green initiatives

My sisters and I

Dear passer by, please wait,
Listen to our story, before it is too late,
Me and my sisters, you call us lakes,
Witnesses to progress in human fate,

Our connections severed by mounts of concrete.
Poisoned by wastes of human existence,
are silently dying.
Our friends, the birds, fishes and insects
Centuries of close bonding
dying with us.
A mass mourning?

Small groups work tirelessly
fearing for us.
A peep into their field books
Documenting our doom?

Dear city dweller,
Can you reverse this sorrowful tale?
then…..
you have to claim us as your own,
keep us in your thoughts,
your stories to your children,
your future missions and songs of change,
and…
Give our city a happy ending.

Lakshmi Kumar
She is a faculty member of Inventure Academy.

Inventure Academy makes Best Film at BICFF

Inventure Academy won the award for the ‘Best Film’ under the Children’s produced film category of Bangalore International Children’s Film Festival (BICFF) 2010 on Thursday.

The competition titled `Make a film in 48 hours’ was organized by Ryan International School, Kundalahali and was open for around 20 schools in the city. The topic for the film revolved around Action for Green- with an aim of younger generation understanding the emission of green house gases, the main cause for global warming and there were 17 films which competed for the award.

Parthiv Shah and Akshay Bhamidipati who represented Inventure Academy, made a short documentary on `Life with Oxygen Masks’. `` There were four topics to choose from and we chose this as it seemed most challenging to us,” says Parthiv, a student of Grade 8 of Inventure Academy, who is all smiles after hearing the news.

The film is around 5 minute long and begins with showing life in 2020 where kids are leading a life with oxygen masks. In the flashback, we are shown the damage that vehicular pollution and industrial waste has already done to our environment.

``Message of our movie was to stop wasting more time in bringing about the `Change’ we so often talk about, and instead mobilize each other to working towards green world. Or else we have to be ready for our future generations to survive only with help of oxygen masks,’’ states Akshay, also a student of Grade 8 at Inventure Academy.

Inventure Academy, Head of School, Nooraine Fazal, says, ``I am delighted that the Inventurers took the opportunity provided by the Bangalore International Children Film Festival to develop and showcase their learning as movie makers and environmentalists.’’

``The win, is of course icing on the cake! Where our students had no specific preparation for the event, Inventure Academy in partnership with our parent body provides a very nurturing environment for students to identify, and develop their talents, and pursue excellence in their chosen fields,’’ she adds.

Click to view the movie- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SI9g78dZdTk

Water

Splash!
When I go into the sea,
I feel tiny air bubbles rushing up.
Their power is over; it has gone to another element.
An element that cannot break apart in the
Strongest wind,
An element that can quench even the
Hottest fire,
An element that can break apart the
Strongest earth,
An element that has no more, only equal.
Life cannot go on without it,
But we have endless supply..
But we pay for that supply.
In other words, we pay for life.
But other people,
They are forced to waste their life for life.
To spend their whole day to get water.
But in vain,
For dozens die a day from disease and drought.
But there is a cure.
A cure that has been possible for years but never
Has been done.
Until. Now.
A group of people have realized the true weapon;
Not for war,
But for water.
Not for ourselves,
But for life.
Not for fame,
But for earth.
Not for money,
Not for mankind,
Not for anything or anyone
But for all,
In other words;
Nature.

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-Parthiv Shah
Grade 7 A

Save the Earth..........Wake up.............

Earth was formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago.

If those 4.6 billion years were 24 hours, Man has walked on Earth for the last 1 minute of those 24 hours.

And of those 24 hours, Man has changed the world to suite him in the last 30 seconds.

In just 30 of those 86,400 seconds, the world has changed for the bad, and is getting worse. There is no balance. Will there ever be any again?

There probably would be. But how would there be balance, is the question. It could be by all the humans dying, because of what they or their predecessors did. It could be something like what happened in the movie 2012, in which only a few humans survive, and through previous experience think through how they live their lives, and live them in a better way. Or, hopefully, we humans see what’s happening and stop now, before it’s too late.


Only time will tell what happens. But whatever happens depends on what we do now. So let’s do something now. Something that will change what is going to happen if we do nothing. Or prepare ourselves for the end of the human race, whether it’s for the better, or for the worse.

Parthiv shah,
Grade 7,
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