The Tamil debate conducted on Tamil Day was a very enlightening conversation between the students of 11 and 12 from all four houses.
The Tamil debate conducted on Tamil Day was a very enlightening conversation between the students of 11 and 12 from all four houses.
Independence Day has great importance in every citizen’s life. This day reminds us every year that freedom is sacred, and citizens must do everything.
As part of the ‘make your school greener’ competition, conducted by the Indian Green Building Council, ten ideas were presented to make our school eco-friendlier, focusing on the main objectives of renewable energy, water efficiency, waste management, better environment quality and green education. From among the presentations of over eight hundred participating schools, ours was chosen as one of the top three by the jury. The second round of the competition was held in Hyderabad. It was a three-day conference. We had the opportunity to showcase our presentation to the jury. After our presentation, we were quizzed by the judges to eventually convince them of implementation of our ideas. Prize money of four lakhs was given to the three winning schools. IGBC will conduct regular audits before rating the schools a “Green Building” under the silver, gold or platinum category. Hari Shree was given the award for ideas most beneficial to both school and society. – Tejas, Sricharan Komateswar, Pranav Arcot, G Hamsini, Mekala Bala Gopal and Vidyuth T
Niharika of class VII and Saharsadara from class IX participated in the art competition conducted by Sishya, OMR. They both bagged the second place in the middle and high school categories respectively.
In spite of pouring rain, the Chairman of IGBC, Chennai Chapter, Padmashri CN Raghavendran, along with Ms. Komal Daal from United Way Delhi and Mr.Jayaraj and Mr. Rajaraman from Carrier visited our school for a short ceremony of handing over the cheque and discussing the implementation of ideas. Following a small presentation of the ideas, Mr. C N Raghavendran gave an insightful speech about the beginning of IGBC and the importance of young minds in shaping a greener future. He liked the simplicity of our ideas and also stressed on the importance of young minds working towards sustainable development. We will now work on implementing our ideas with the prize money and getting a platinum rating for our school.
Mekala and Saketh of class X were part of ‘Best Performers’ of ‘Go 4 Guru’ essay writing competition. A waiver of Rs.25,000/- against overall NASA trip as their prize, gave them an opportunity to visit NASA, Kennedy Space Centre. On the final day at NASA, the best performers shortlisted earlier were requested to write an essay on the spot. Saketh won the ‘Kalpana Chawla Award’ and Mekala received the ‘Space Explorer award’ for the same. It was a wonderful trip and the students were able to experience so many aspects that they had read only in books, newspapers and Internet. They also experienced various activities such as the interactive space shuttle take-off simulator, tour of launch pads and got an opportunity to interact with NASA Astronaut Dr. Winston E Scott. – T G Saketh, grade 10
In the summer of 2019, I, Gayathri Venkatesan attended a PAN India essay competition by Takthe in partnership with UNESCO New Delhi, writing on the topic of ‘Is protecting the natural environment a priority?’ The top one hundred essays were to be published into a book known as ‘Inside the Millennial Mind’, in which my essay was featured. I received the book from the book launch in New Delhi. I learned many things about the topic as I researched and found some very shocking things as well that I would not have expected in the slightest. It was a wonderful experience, as the book contained the various thoughts of students akin to myself all over the country. All in all, I feel like the entire experience, from participating in the competition, to receiving the book was a journey that was wonderful and I would definitely do it again if I had the opportunity. – Gayathri Venkatesan, grade 11
Our under 12 girls team secured third place in the Ellen Sharma Memorial Inter School Basketball tournament.
Our Under 11 and Under 13 football teams were awarded the runner up trophy. Nithilan from class VI was declared the best player of the tournament and Shaun from grade VII was awarded the trophy for the best goalkeeper of the tournament.
R Nitin Valliappan of Class 6, secured first place across all Chennai schools in ‘Ramanujan Math Talent Exam’, conducted by the TamilNadu Science and Technology Center. He was felicitated by the Tamil Nadu Education Ministry on the 28th of february.
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