The 1st half of the “After SLC” intake is over and our 6th week began with our students researching their topic of interest and planning for the “FINAL PROJECT CHALLENGE” that will be a month long preparation which will be exhibited on the final day- June 21st!!!
On Thursday, our students made a field trip to Centre for Energy Studies at Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk. This site had been discussed during their Solar Oven Challenge. For more info please visit http://ces.ioe.edu.np/
Students from Sano Sansaar displaying the solar cooker
Continuing with our weekly themes, this week we focused on WATER and our students visited the SmartPaani site as well as Saanjha Petrol Pump in Pulchowk where SmartPaani has implemented its rainwater harvesting project. For more info please visit http://smartpaani.com/
Students at Saanjha petrol pump checking out the rainwater harvesting installation site implemented by SmartPaani
Suman Shakya sharing his experiences on SmartPaani
Suman Shakya, a Kathmandu based social entrepreneur founded SmartPaani that deals with sustainable water management and rainwater harvesting. He has also been one of our guest speakers in our first intake.
We would like to thank the facilitators at Centre for Energy Studies, Prof. Jagan Nath Shrestha, Director of CES, Dr. Tri Ratna Bajracharya as well as everyone from SmartPaani for making these field trips possible.