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.
Daksh Malik the Literary Virtuoso
Daksh Malik of Grade 5 is a literary virtuoso and has won many accolades during this year, making his school and the teachers proud.
Daksh was announced a Winner of National Challenge Round of Katha Utsav 2020. During his participation he had the opportunity to meet India's best literary professionals and was mentored by them along with other selected students on different aspects of creative writing.
Representing Shiv Nadar School Noida in the English Olympiad organised by International Society for Olympiad (ISFO), he secured 2nd Rank in the State, winning a Silver Medal. He put another feather in his cap when his poem titled ‘Another Galaxy’ got published in Robinage Newspaper and selected for display on Wall of Fame on their website.
Daksh has been steadily expressing his thoughts and feelings through his writings. His story - Once Upon a Time’, a thriller on Time Space Continuum won him the second prize in Weave your story Contest. The contest was organised by Lynkube and judged by senior author, journalist and columnist Sharmilla Chand.
His participation in Holiday Season 2020 International Corona Multimedia Showcase won him Certificate of Appreciation by NW Centre of Excellence in Media Literacy, University of Washington. The project he submitted has helped to create a wonderful display of diverse entries representing the activities as well as the hopes, dreams, thoughts and feelings of young people during the most extraordinary holiday season celebrated during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Link of his submission of a scratch game ‘Body Invaders’ on Coronavirus vaccination and video on Holiday season 2020 respectively.
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/429314426
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4OtxSKmpu4
Under-14 Cricket Tournament Match Award
Gurtej Singh student of Grade 5-Gir has won the Best Batsman and Hitter of the Match Award in Clash of Talents Under-14 Tournament Match.
MIT App Inventor: App of the Month by PRANET PAHWA
9 year old 5th grader Pranet created this versatile app to help patients to find the best solution for their healthcare needs under a common platform. Pranet Pahwa has been recognised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA as they have selected his App XDOC+ the winner for MIT App of the month. XDOC+ is the platform through which the general public can know about various medical specialties and the key doctors across various specialities all under one roof.
Congratulations to young Pranet.
Achievements in Joie de vivre S4 Cultural Festival by Senior School Students
The senior school students of Shiv Nadar Noida participated in the inter-school cultural festival - Joie de Vivre. Chickar International School (CIS) and the Institute for Career Studies (ICS) organised Season 4 of their signature Joie de Vivre festival which was conducted online.
The festival provided the students a unique platform to display their innate talent in the areas of design thinking, social awareness, team spirit and creativity under different categories.
The students from the Noida campus won the following positions and made us proud.
Mahika Tampi - first position in Story telling
Aarya Mahapatra - second position in Solo Dancing.
Barish Raman and Mannat Khan - first and second position respectively in Stand-Up-Comedy
Click here to see the performances
Our Budding Scientist, Kshitij Goel
It's time to celebrate the achievement of our Budding Scientist, Kshitij Goel of grade 4, who has done us proud again with his yet another innovation in the field of Science.
NXP India, the largest R&D center of NXP Semiconductors Pvt. Ltd, conducted the Young Innovators Challenge back in August to challenge young minds to put their creativity and innovation to the around this year’s theme – ‘Let’s Fight COVID19 together’.
Kshitij, was the youngest innovator at the event and bagged the Special Jury Innovation Award as well as Audience Choice award in the junior category.
He came up with a breathing device ‘Sanjeevani, an automated bag valve mask that can act as a provisional ventilator machine for people suffering from acute respiratory diseases like Covid-19. It is basically a low cost ventilator which is relevant to the current pandemic.
Links from the Online portal of India Today and Aaj Tak acknowledging his achievements.
Glimpse of Kshitj, talking about the product. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebcDfdwZ1cU&feature=youtu.be
Congratulations Kshitij! We are proud of you!
National Design Championship runner up -2020
At the Design Championship - Devasya Sharma, Gr.8 was the runner up at the National level. He had to design a game on 'Underwater'
In the Regionals, he had secured the first position with his game on saving wild animals.