Coimbatore: Two government school student teams from the district have won accolades at the state-level Specific Concept Oriented Project Experience (Scope) programme conducted under the Samagra Shiksha scheme.Seven projects done by as many student teams from the district were sent to the state-level competition held in Trichy on Tuesday. Each project represented a subject – mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, economics and commerce.The team from Government Higher Secondary School at Karamadai that did a project on e-commerce was placed second, while the team form the Municipal Girls Higher Secondary School in Pollachi, which did a project on a mathematics concept, was placed third at the contest.The team from the Karamadai government school did a survey on e-commerce websites, their reach and relevance today. The team comprised Class XI students K Priya, D Haripriya, S Mahalakshmi, A Prashitha and S Aishwarya. They were guided by commerce teacher R Saravanakumar.“The survey results revealed that e-commerce portals were more used by people in the age group of 30-35 years. We found that quality of an e-retail site was as important for people as competitive prices that are on offer,” Saravanakumar said.The girls team from Pollachi, comprising Class XI students A Mythili, N Nandini, M Vismaya, J Jayalakshmi and M Nandhini, made an instrument to measure the height structures using trigonometric concepts. The students were guided by their math teacher T Poorani. “We made a clinometer, an instrument which, using angles, enables to measure the height of structures. While students study trigonometric formulae such as Sin theta and Cos theta in theory, it would be more effective if they learned it in real life,” Poorani said.The students learned to use the instrument by measuring the height of buildings and trees and then verifying it. At the project presentation, the students measured the height of a black board, she said.

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