HCL Jigsaw Winner 2021 - Grade 9 Raghav Garg
HCL Jigsaw is a new pioneering program with an objective of building a culture of problem solving in the country, starting at the school level. This is India’s Premier Critical Reasoning Platform for students from Grades 6 to 9. It had participants from across the country in each grade. Raghav is among the 3 winners in Grade 9.
HCL Jigsaw aims to:
- Raise awareness on the importance of 21st century skills;
- Celebrate educators who strive hard to nurture these skills in young individuals.
- Recognize and reward students who have the potential to be tomorrow's leading problem-solvers; and
- Help all participating students understand improvement areas so that they can work towards developing these critical skills.
Rewards for Raghav Grag
The Winners Trophy.- Prizes worth up to INR 1 L per student including laptop, portable speaker and Wi-Fi printer.
- Learning opportunities at HCL Innovation Labs on real life projects.
Congratulations to India's Top Young Problem Solvers
Congratulations Avviraaj Kalia
Avviraaj Kalia of Grade 1 was placed 'Winner' in the 22nd Greens to Glory Junior Golf Tournamnet held at Classic Golf and Country Club in the age category E (8 years and below).
He previously secured 1st Position in the Champion of Champions Tournament by Acegolfindia held on 22nd July at Jaypee Greens Noida.
National Coding Olympiad - IIT Bhubaneswar
Pranet Pahwag of Grade 5 has been recognised by IIT Bhubaneswar and Super Teacher.
He has secured Second position in Pan India at the National Coding Olympiad (Junior) 2020-21.
He received the Merit Certificate, Rs. 3,000 Scholarship and Rs. 5,000 prize money.
Glimpse of his work.
https://youtu.be/YP7RLx4q0fw
The British Council International School Award
At Shiv Nadar School the focus of our teaching-learning is to lead by example. This year we have been awarded the International School Award (ISA) by the British Council.
More than 2500 schools across the country participated in this journey. The range of schools varies from well-resourced private schools to government schools from rural areas and schools for the less advantaged communities.
The ISA Team consisted of 15 teachers across K-12 who worked together on a 7 Action Plan each based on UN Sustainability Goals. Every action plan was supported by strong evidence and documentation.
This Award (ISA) benchmarks and accredits schools as having an outstanding level of support for:
a. leading and nurturing the intercultural understanding and appreciation of sustainable dimension goals in young people.
b. enriching teaching and learning.
It was a year-long project for the year 2019-20. The results were delayed due to lock down and were announced only recently.
Energy Boot Camp
Students worked on Nuclear and Climate Change. A team of 3 of our students presented a project on the working of a Nuclear Reactor, and stood 4th among 15 teams from Shiv Nadar Schools and Vidyagyan Schools. Saachi Gupta – Grade 6, Arnav Balyan – Grade 8 , Dhruva Vujayvargia – Grade 9
Shiv Nadar School, in association with Indian Youth Nuclear Society, organised the Energy Boot Camp from November 6 - 8, 2020. The three-day Boot Camp featured interactive sessions related to Nuclear Energy, Climate change and Sustainability for students to make them more aware about energy and the environment.
The preliminary phase of Energy Boot Camp commenced from October 6, 2020. During this phase, the students from the participating schools competed in the Creative activities, Interactive Experiment sessions and the Inter-School Competitions. Swinzal Taneja of our school was among the winners in multiple Individual competitions such as painting, rap song and poem and slogans and taglines. Maira Sikka was among the winners in the painting competition, and Aayana Aggarwal was one of the winners in the Memes and cartoons category.
There was an Inter-School Competition with multiple rounds consisting of Energy quiz, Public interaction through video making and technical group project. Our school team consisting of Arnav Balyan, Dhruva Vijayvargia and Saachi Gupta (mentored by the Physics teacher Ms. Megha Bohra and the nuclear scientist Ms. Mudra Chavda), qualified among 15 teams to compete in the Finale. In the finale, they presented their group project to eminent Nuclear Scientists and also participated in the ‘Youth Parliament’ along with the eminent experts and panelists from various fields. They stood 3rd runners up in the competition.
Ria Singh - Young Author
Ria Singh - Young Author
Article published in the Elephant Journal https://www.elephantjournal.com/2020/05/falling-an-unexpected-journey/
Business World Education magazine published an authored by Ria. Article titled, “Air Pollution: Who Is Responsible? What Next?” http://bweducation.businessworld.in/article/Air-Pollution-Who-Is-Responsible-What-Next-/06-01-2020-181530/
1st Runner up in 1st Attempt - Safe Bench
– 1 Runner up in 1 Attempt: Grade 10 designed a project named "SAFE". It is a Self - Sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench. Aims to solve sanitized seating arrangement in public spaces.
olloquium is project based learning challenges aimed to solve a real world problem. The teams apply tech learning to solve these challenges. It not only displays the technology skills gained through different tech baskets offered at School but also harnesses entrepreneurial skills in students. Thus, offers enriching learning experience to students. Our Grade 10 students explored these projects for the first time. One team of Grade 10 came up with the project named "SAFE".
SAFE is a Self-sanitising Automatic Futuristic Effortless bench aiming to solve the sitting problem as it’s the most basic activities which has become a huge hassle and a danger to health due to pandemic. With the rapid increase of diseases to be seen, this bench can also contribute significantly in the future to combat other communicable diseases and create an overall clean environment. It focusses to solve the close contact and sanitising problem especially in the older people and children as they face more significant risk due to their weaker immune system.
Students bagged runner up position at the event. Names of the students are:
Nirvani Jain
Suhani Sharma
Mansi Aggarwal
Gurnoor Kaur
Arshia Jaitli
STEM & Space International Asteroid Discovery Project
Sanchit Kapoor’s (Grade 8) discovery is one of the only 11 discoveries that has been confirmed as provisional asteroid discoveries by the Minor Planet Catalog (MPC), and will be formally recorded in this catalog
Congratulations Mrs. Megha Bohra
Congratulations to Mrs. Megha Bohra as she is Shiv Nadar School - Topper – in Secondary School Physics
3rd Rank National in CENTA / 1st Rank in Subject – Physics / 1st Regional Rank
Viraj Singh Goel – Boy with the Aim of Gold
Viraj Singh Goel of Grade 5 is an ace shooter who has been shooting since the age of five. He has been consistently winning various tournaments. Viraj won a GOLD medal in the ‘Air Rifle - Under 12 Men Category’ and a BRONZE medal in the ‘Air Rifle - Under 15 Sub Youth Men Category’ in the 3rd Guns of Nation Shooting Competition, this tournament is affiliated with the Delhi State Rifle Association.
His winning streak won him yet another Gold and three Silver Medals in different categories in the 36th Delhi State Shooting Championship 2021. This year he played in the prestigious Purnatva Shooting Tournament organized by Uttrakhand State Rifle Association. He competed in two categories and won “Gold Medal” in both of them.