The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) has signed an agreement with the MCC Cricket Academy, London, under which school boys from across India can receive MCC cricket coaching at a camp in TDS on January 25-29.
“The MCC Academy will provide pupils with the very best coaching and technical analysis while developing team building and leadership skills. School coaches will also be provided with training and the drill. This training academy is part of the ongoing training relationship that TDS has with MCC,” says Dr. Peter McLaughlin, headmaster of TDS.
“We are delighted to be returning to The Doon School with the MCC Lord’s Club India Cricket Academy in January 2015. We hope this lays the foundation for regular camps during the course of the year,” says Simon Reid of the MCC Lord’s Club India.
For further registration and details, visit www.doonschool.com/mcc2015
Resonance STaRT-2015
The final stage (Stage-II) of the talent search exam STaRT-2015 conducted by Resonance Eduventures Pvt. Ltd (estb.2001), the well-known Kota-based test prep company (IIT-JEE, AIPMT, AIEEE) which has 13 learning centres countrywide, was successfully completed on December 14. STaRT (Scholarship, Talent and Reward Test) is an aptitude-cum-benchmarking test for class V-XII students countrywide. Toppers are awarded rewards, recognition and scholarships. Over 23,000 students who were selected in stage-II appeared for final stage evaluation in 60 Resonance centres across the country.
This pan-India annual event is conducted in two stages and more than 1.85 lakh students were evaluated in stage-I, of whom 23,000 were selected for stage-II.
Abid Husain, chief coordinator of STaRT-2015, says the Top 100 students in each class V-XII will be invited for the Champions’ Camp to be conducted on January 15-16 in Kota, during which the expert faculty team of Resonance will brief them about preparing for competitive exams.
The two-day event will be followed by a felicitation function on January 18, at which prizes valued at Rs.1 crore will be awarded to winning students. Students securing #1 All India Rank (AIR) in each class will be conferred a gold medal and nine-day trip to NASA, USA. AIR #2 students will be awarded silver medals and a seven-day Europe (CERN) trip and AIR #3 students will be awarded bronze medals and a six-day Singapore excursion. AIR #4 & 5 students will win branded laptops while AIR #6-10 hi-end tablet PCs.
A total of 2,400 prizes valued at Rs.1 crore will be distributed and around 6,000 deserving students will be given awards/scholarships valued at Rs.5 crore.
Global cooperation appeal
Following a terrorist attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar (Pakistan) in which Taliban terrorists gunned down 132 children and nine staff members, 11 students of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar, Campus I, representing 50,000 students of CMS schools in Lucknow, called a press conference in Lucknow on December 17. “The time has come to form a World Government, a World Parliament and a World Court of Justice,” they said.
Addressing the press conference, Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, founder-chairman of CMS — the largest single city primary-secondary school worldwide spread over 20 campuses in Lucknow, — said he was deeply saddened and disturbed by the cruel murder of innocent children in Pakistan. “Terrorism is a worldwide disease and it’s too widespread to be tackled by any one country. The only way to control it is at the global level through a New World Order. A World Police Force is needed which can enter any country without visas to catch culprits. We have to make the World Law and World Court System so strong and effective that its laws can be implemented in all countries of the world,” said Gandhi.
Parikrma Health awards
Parikrma Humanity Foundation (PHF, regstd. 2003) which has an aggregate enrolment of 1,600 children in its four free-of-charge schools in Bangalore and over the past 12 years has enabled 146 slum children to enter university and placed 52 alumni in well-paid jobs, has instituted its annual Health Awards for schools in Bangalore. “Over the past 11 years that we have been running our schools, we have learnt that good health is an important prerequisite of children’s achievement in academics, sports and social spheres. Schools need to give it adequate attention,” says Shukla Bose, founder-CEO of PHF.
The Parikrma Address School Health Awards will confer 12 awards to schools with an active program for counseling and mental health; an innovative health education curriculum; ‘physical activity for healthy living’ programme; encouraging good nutrition and personal hygiene practices; substance abuse, tobacco and alcohol use prevention; innovative child safety programme; timely health check-ups; health and sanitation community programmes, promoting the health of staff; innovating to deliver in-school health services; and fostering a healthy school environment.
To qualify for the awards, schools in Bangalore can either apply online at www.schoolhealthawards.com or download the application form and post it to Parikrma Humanity Foundation. There are no registration or participation charges.
Applications will close on January 24 and the Parikrma Address School Health Awards will be conferred on February 7.