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.
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
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.
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.
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
Congratulations to Oviya
Oviya Walia of Grade 3 Secured Two Bronze Medals in the 34th District Roller Skating Championship held at Faridabad District on 30 and 31st October 2021.
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