DAV quiz
The regional directorate of DAV Institutions, Odisha zone, has organised the DAV Heritage Odisha Quiz-2016 for students of classes VIII to XII to rouse interest in Indian culture and heritage and also to boost their quizzing aptitude. The state-level quiz was conducted by international quizmaster Kunal Savarkar at DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar. Three-member teams from around 40 schools will go through a preliminary round, followed by a final audio-visual round on the host school's 28th Foundation Day on Friday .
Freshers' programme
Students of Class XII at Mother's Public School welcomed their Class-XI counterparts at a programme recently. The students presented an array of performances to entertain the new entrants. Students from other city schools who have joined Mother's for Plus Two also took the opportunity to get to know each other. The senior students braved the afternoon rain to welcome the new students, who duly reciprocated with loud cheers and taking part in the revelry.
Global talk
SAIMUN 2016, the Model United Nations hosted by Sai International School in Bhubaneswar, concluded this week. Student delegates from 14 countries took part in the event. The 35 delegates of the United Nations General Assembly held discussions on various global issues. Most delegates displayed their debating skills, which reflected the intense research that they had put into it. The international delegates also took part in Global Village where each country displayed their culture and tradition, either through dance or songs or artefacts. Bashirah, a Class-VI student from Uganda, presented a self-composed and choreographed song and dance, depicting the importance of the mother in one's life.
Child reporters
Centre for Child and Women Development, a Bhubaneswar-based voluntary organisation, teamed up with the National Foundation for India to organise an orientation programme on child reporting. The programme aimed to create awareness about the process of data collection, report to media houses and writing skill development among children. Around 50 members from different children's club took part in the programme.
Children in focus
Wood-Apple, a Bhubaneswar-based school for special children under Shree Sai Niketan Trust, in association with Odisha Quiz Association, conducted KWIZ-Bel 2016, an open quiz competition for school students, at DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur. Around 250 students from different Bhubaneswar schools took part in the competition. Punya Pratyasa Sethi and Jyotisman Rath of DAV Public School, Unit-VIII, Soumya Ranjan Mohapatra and Anant Narayan Acharya of ODM Public school and Preetish Biswal and Soubhagya Ratna Behera of DPS Kalinga stood first, second and third, respectively. The winners were awarded cash prizes, trophies, gifts and certificates. Income tax commissioner Sarat Kumar Dash was the chief guest ay the event.
Investiture ceremony
Dignitaries at the investiture ceremony for achievers at DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, said students were filled with potential and possibilities.
"Once tapped and nourished in the formative stages, they can create wonders in the future," said AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, director A.K. Mahapatra, who was the chief guest. Silver medals, cash prizes and citations were given away to achievers of Plus Two science, commerce and humanities. The new cabinet, led by school leader Soubhik Samal, assistant school leader Ananya Mishra, cultural secretary Dalaya Thaker, sports secretary M. Akshita and other students took the oath of office from principal K. C. Sathpathy.
