The Greater Chennai Corporation who organised the 'Wings to Fly' initiative handed over laptops to eight Corporation school students, who won a competition conducted under the ‘Wings to Fly’ initiative. A Greater Chennai Corporation press release read that the competition was conducted among the students studying from Class 6 to 9, in joining hands with Rotary Club of Madras East and Foundation for Vocational Training. 

The release added that “In 2016, the students, who had won, were sent to Malaysia and in 2017, they went to Germany. In 2018 and 2019, they were sent to NASA in the USA and Singapore". The release added that due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the students, who won the competition, could not go to foreign countries.“Following this, laptops were given to the students in an event held in the Ripon Building,” the release said. A large number of 4,000 students had participated in the elocution competition, of which 32 competed in the final round on November 19.

The year 2020 marks the fifth successful year of the event.  The first two years took the format of an elocution competition for the Corporation school students. The subsequent years transitioned into a mega Science Talent Hunt that brings not just the academic skills but also their creative scientific temper to test. Last year, 7000 students from across 70 corporation schools competed with each other over a lateral thinking objective test, from which 280 top scoring students were shortlisted for entry into the finals. Of the 280, 32 were declared as winners. 

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