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BRAINWAVES Interschool Competition was held on 01 and 02 February, 2010. The event was organized by the YMCA, Andheri Branch. The Prize Distribution was held on Saturday, 06 February, 2010. Following are our winners:

S.N.	Student’s Name	Std / Div	Prize detail	Prize Awarded
1	Sourya Majumdar	VII B A	First Prize in English Essay Writing	Certificate + Trophy + Rs.500
			Frist Prize in English Short Story Writing	Certificate + Trophy + Rs.500
			Second Prize in General Knowledge	Certificate + Rs.300
2	Palak Lapasia	VII B A	Second Prize in English Elocution	Certificate + Rs.300
3	Adarsh Rohra	VI A A	Third Prize in General Knowledge	Certificate + Rs.200
4	Aditya Doshingkar	VI A B	First Prize General Knowledge	Trophy + Certificate + Rs.500
5	Neil Malu	VIII B B School	First Prize in General Knowledge(Sr)	Trophy + Certificate + Rs.500
6	Urvi Gala	VII B B	First Prize in Poster painting	Trophy + Certificate + Rs.500
7	Vidur Shah		Third Prize in General Knowledge (Sr)	Certificate + Rs.200
8	Varun Mahesh	VIII B B	Third Prize in English Elocution (Sr)	Certificate + Rs.200
9	Shreya Srivastava	VIII A B	Second Prize in Hindi Story Writing	Certificate + Rs.200
10	Shreshti Chatterjee	VIII D B	Second Prize in English Elocution	Certificate + Rs.200

NSTSE 2010 – WINNERS LIST

RESULTS NSTSE – 2010

S. N.	H. T. NO.	STD.	STUDENT’S NAME	CLASS RANK	STATE RANK	ALL INDIA RANK
01	1492A005 (He got Rank = 1 in Mumbai)	2	Vardhaman Mukesh Jain	1	25	104
02	1492A009	2	Kartik Kannappan	2	53	267
03	1492A010	2	Pranav Shirish Limaye	3	147	796
04	1492A030	2	V. Rupesh Chaphekar	3	147	796
05	1492B025	3	Utkarsh Vinay Bhosekar	1	168	911
06	1492B050	3	Anusha Kikani	2	349	1755
07	1492B038	3	Naman Rajesh Mehta	3	361	1804
08	1492C062	4	Rohan Parag Shah	1	11	68
09	1492C049	4	Jasjit Anantpal Kaur	3	131	635
10	1492C074	4	Vishrut Rajeev Kumar	2	49	309
11	1492D038 (This student is a National Topper with a Rank below 100)	5	Miron Godrej Wankadia	1	4	15
12	1492D030	5	Rishabh dinesh D’Souza	2	36	157
13	1492D049	5	Avnee Avinash Kalia	3	182	845
14	1492D062	5	Daisy Sunil Agrawal	3	182	845
15	1492E035 (This student is a National Topper with a Rank below 100)	6	Aditi Kabra	1	7	37
16	1492E006	6	Vatsal Pramod Jha	2	83	437
17	1492E023	6	Urja Vinay Bhosekar	3	105	595
18	1492F001 (This student is a National Topper with a Rank below 100)	7	Archit Vinay Patke	1	1	1
19	1492F019 (This student is a National Topper with a Rank below 100)	7	Rohan Rakehs Sitaniya	2	4	17
20	1492F002	7	Shounak Nipun Rangwala	3	25	198
21	1492G014	8	Rutvij Dimple Shah	1	74	621
24	1492G042	8	Shrikant Bhaskar	2	110	925
25	1492G043	8	Ajinkya Avinash Kalia	3	116	988
22	1492H011	9	Megh Hiren Shukla	1	222	2695
23	1492H015	9	Kanika Dinesh Nahata	2	342	3950
24	1492H024	9	Shreya Sushil Kumar	3	393	4413
25	1492J003	10	Sachin Poduval	1	56	1210
26	1492I002	10	Rajat Shah	2	310	5296
27	1492J007	11 PCM	George Jibu Cherian	1	58	1744
28	1492J003	11 PCM	Nathanael D’Silva	2	213	4794
29	1492L006 (This student is a National Topper with a Rank below 100)	12 PCM	Harshit Malik	1	3	20
30	1492L002 (He/She got Rank = 2 in Mumbai)	12 PCM	Macrina Melville Lobo	2	7	212
31	1492L001	12 PCM	Alak Vijaykant Deora	3	43	1048

TECHNOVANZA was organized by VJTI Institute, Matunga, Mumbai by their engineering students to propogate an interest and a zeal of technological innovation; to reach out to a wide mass of young minds. Part of their programme included a one hour robotics workshop for our Std. VIII students, who later on participated in a display to show case their projects between 05 and 07 February, 2010.

Teams Experience:
We were the only students participating which were from school, all others were from the best colleges of Maharashtra. Although we were so young we qualified for all three rounds. We finished up ranking 12 out of 50 finalist. It was a great experience building and modifying it for different rounds. Although we could not make it this year, we will try and try till we succeed.

- Podar Overdrive

The main categories were:

Autobots
Golden bridge making
Sim City
Card Xpert
Games Diction

Vishrut Kumar – Std. IV and Shayoni Chaudhury – Std. VIII were selected for the interschool DNA ya’s Junior Journo II programme. The selection was held on 20 February, at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi. The selected students will now attend a series of workshop . The first one was held on 27 February, 2010 with a quick intro to the world of news and the basics of news gathering and writing. Congratulations to both our junior journalists!

Times NIE too had a similar program for the students of 7, 8 and 9. Three students attended the qualifying round for the Times NIE School Reporter on 10 February, 2010 at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Prabhadevi.

Students participated in a series of interschool competition organized by Nehru Science Centre and Nehru Planetarium, to celebrate the National Science Day on 28 February, 2010. Shamit Kikani and Rajat Jain of Std. VII won in the astro-painting and Ajinkya Kalia, Neil Malu and Rithvik Shah of Std. VIII won for the Science Quiz at Nehru Planetarium. Krishnan V. and Rohan Shah of Std. VIII won in Treasure Hunt event at the Nehru Science Centre.

Sripradha Shekhar won second prize and Bhavna Chandramouli won first prize in Classical Dance Competition on 26 January, 2010 at BAL MAHOTSAV organized by Prempuri Bal Sanskar Kendra at Babulnath, Mumbai.

KSHITIJ KALASHRI AWARD

PAINTING:

S. N.	STUDENT’S NAME	STD. / DIV.	SHIFT	PRIZE
01	Hrishita A. Desai	III / A	A	Gold Medal
02	Rudra Rahul Kamat	II / E	B	Gold Medal
03	Shreya Srivastava	VIII / A	A	Gold Medal
04	Kimaya Rawal	I / G	B	Silver Medal
05	Viva Kamdar	I / B	B	Silver Medal

82 students won the ‘Certificate of Merit’ for Painting.
06 students won the ‘Certificate of Merit’ for Greeting.
02 students won the ‘Certificate of Merit’ for Cartoon.
07 students won the ‘Certificate of Merit’ for Poem.
13 students won the ‘Certificate of Merit’ for Essay / Story.

Following students – Monik Pamecha, Shalini Chaudhary, Vedangi Pathak, Sujoy Ghosh and Harsh Chauhan sent essay entries for he EF’s Global Citizen Scholarship program which unites students around the world by breaking down barriers of language, culture and geography. The winners will enjoy the opportunity on all – expense paid educational tour to China.

An excerpt from the essay response by our student Monic Pamecha – Std. IX / D

Thirteen Hundred Million people living in one nation and driving it towards growth is not a simple task. While most superpowers in the world are afraid of managing a huge population, we have a country which challenged the norms, altered it and made it their biggest strength. It indeed is one of the fastest growing nations in the world, China.

There is a saying, “What China is seeing now, will be seen by the world after twenty years”. The Dragon nation is ahead of all other countries in terms of innovation. Innovation maybe Technological or Defence related or even business ideals. China has lead the revolution and continues to lead with it’s army of hard working country men who devote themselves selflessly to contribute to the country’s development. To Generate new sources of employment and income is also called innovation. It is a fact that innovation drives the world and that the future completely depends on the new ideas which tend to get more from the existing resources. Technological advancements of China are ahead of other countries especially in terms of Digital Media. The Strict Chinese Censorship rules are also key factors in development as they keep the nation men, away from other unnecessary things which form distraction in their passage to innovation. As the competition increases the scope for innovation rises altogether. This inspires us to do wonders and give birth to revolutionary ideas which help change the world and make things easier. The best ideas solve the oldest problems in our community and we are inspired to keep working on solutions for these problems. Poverty and Education are the oldest problems which are being worked upon with ideas like mass employment schemes.

As said earlier, Innovation drives the world and that’s how it works. Radical ideas to change the way we work, to ease out and reduce the number of steps in any given process and to provide the maximum output.

One of the most observant thing in China is the dedication that each individual puts into while working. They believe in team efforts then individual efforts and this is a proven ideal that major successes are products of great team work as team effort reduces load on every individual, helps people in specializing in fields, reduces the total amount of time to complete any given task and proves to be a major game changer. It also leads to productivity. Innovation is also guaranteed because we know that no two men can think the same and so when there is a team, we have people with different views who have suffered different problems coming forward which finally lead to new innovations and thus the nation begins to prosper.

Monik Pamecha, IX / D