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New Indian Express
10 hours ago
- General
- New Indian Express
Students in Puducherry create interactive doll to spread Pocso awareness
PUDUCHERRY: In a remarkable example of student entrepreneurship, the students of Ilango Adigal Government Higher Secondary School, Muthirapalayam on Tuesday have taken the lead in raising awareness about the Pocso (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) Act through innovation, creativity, and peer learning. The highlight of the programme is the use of a student-developed interactive talking doll named 'Zara'. Equipped with touch sensors, Zara helps children distinguish between safe and unsafe touch in a simple, relatable way. The initiative, designed and led entirely by students, focused on sensitising 175 girl students to the Pocso Act. The doll, designed to communicate in Tamil, English, and Hindi, was used in live demonstrations that captured the attention of the audience and effectively conveyed messages about personal safety. A series of engaging student-led activities marked the day. These included the performance of a Pocso awareness song titled 'My Body, My Right,' composed by the students and tuned by the school's Head of Institution, K Kokilambal, who also performed it alongside girl students from Classes IX to XII. Another powerful segment of the event was a dramatic role play based on the 'NO-GO-TELL' strategy, which illustrated practical steps children can take to protect themselves and seek help, said S Sriram, Physics Teacher who coordinated the project and guided the students in developing the content and integrating technology into their outreach. This student-led effort underscores the role of youth as powerful change-makers, demonstrating how innovation, creativity, and community engagement can come together to champion the rights and safety of children.
The Hindu
2 days ago
- Science
- The Hindu
Ilango Adigal government school begins its academic year in style
The Ilango Adigal Government Higher Secondary School at Mutharaiyarpalam has initiated the academic year in style, with its students brainstorming to create an interactive doll that emits alerts about unsafe touch. The school, known for its initiatives in the past of inculcating scientific temper in students through experimentation of theories from science classes, has this time, encouraged students to apply physics lessons for a practical outcome. A group of Class 12 science students relied on the principle of Law of Conservation of Energy to develop an interactive doll — named 'Zara' — which helps in warning children about unsafe bodily touches. The students, from what they have imbibed in their physics classes about transformation of energy, under the guidance of teachers, made three dolls of fibre reinforced plastic which sends out loud alerts when someone touches the body in an inappropriate manner. When the doll encounters unsafe touch, it will give out a cry — 'No, don't touch' — and then read out a brief about the POCSO Act as a forewarning. 'The touch-sensitive dolls are multi-lingual. The dolls are equipped to speak in Tamil, Hindi and English. The idea originated in classrooms, and we used the facilities at our Atal Tinkering Laboratory. This is also our effort to educate students on sexual offences,' S. Sriram, lecturer in Physics, Ilango Adigal School said. The school has organised an event to present a demonstration of the doll on its premises on Tuesday. A POCSO awareness song titled 'My Body, My Right,' composed by the students and tuned by the head of the institution K. Kokilambal will also be presented at the function. In the previous academic years, the school had come up with several innovative scientific models with active participation of students. Last year, they presented a working model of Van de Graff Generator made using locally available materials, such as plastic pipe, stainless steel utensils, rubber belt and a 12 DC motor. The French-era school had previously developed a mechanised braking system for temple cars with the assistance of Atal Tinkering Lab.
