Lucknow, 5 February : The two-day long Inter-school Science Festival 'SCIFARI-2023' organized by City Montessori School, United World Campus, saw a kick and scintillating start at CMS Kanpur Road auditorium today. The Founder of CMS, Dr Jagdish Gandhi lit the lamp of learning to inaugurate the function ceremoniously. In his address on this occasion, Dr Gandhi said that such events are the need of the hour to promote students' imaginative and innovative prowess. This Science contest is an innovative event that will accuminate the talents of students. CMS Founder-Director, Dr Bharti Gandhi, and CMS President and MD Prof. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon were also present to inspire and encourage students. The event began with the School Prayer, All Religion Prayer, and World Unity prayer. The tiny tots presented scintillating educational-cultural items in honour of the participating students and their team leaders.

            The participating students showcased their creative thinking, skills, and brilliance in the events held after the inaugural function, exhibiting their awareness of societal development. Competitions of Scifari began with Sci-Rhetoric (Elocution) followed by Sci-Zoid (Declamation) contest allowing the teams to explore their creative side. Students spoke with confidence about their favourite personalities or scientists. In the Sci-Nerdly Minds (Quiz) contest, students were very apt and quick in answering the questions. The quiz contest had two rounds. The top ten teams of the first round appeared in the second round. The audio-visual and buzzer rounds received profound clappings from the audience. Sci-Porium (Model Presentation) contest exposed the scientific temper, creativity, imagination, and deep understanding of participants. The students made eye-catching socially-useful models showing their humanistic perspective.