The Faridabad Basketball Association organised the U-17 District Basketball Championship, which took place at Shiv Nadar School on August 29 and 30, 2022.
19 teams participated in the competition coming from different parts of Faridabad. The knonckout and quarter final rounds of the competition were played on the first day. We had four semi-finalists at the conclusion of the day: Bansi Vidya Niketan, Shiv Nadar School, Delhi Public School Sector-19, and D.A.V. Sector-14.
Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad competed against Delhi Public School Sector-19 in the first semifinal, which Shiv Nadar School won 50–22.
Shiv Nadar School and Bansi Vidya Niketan were our finalists following the semifinals. The Championship was won by Shiv Nadar School by a score of 69-36 after the finals game featured some outstanding performances from both sides, who showed great intent and confidence on the court.
Col. Atul Bali, the Head of Administrator of Shiv Nadar School, Faridabad, and Mr. Sandeep Sharma, the general secretary of the Faridabad Basketball Association, distributed the medals and trophies.
Pavani Goyal of Shiv Nadar School won the most valuable player award, and Shiv Nadar School's Shreya Garg won the most promising player of the championship.
Vedang Darbari , our young Mathematician from Grade 7 ranked among Asia's Top Ten in Clash of Pi, Singapore. Clash of Pi the Asian Math Circuit is the world’s most comprehensive and advanced mathematics circuit for students of Grades 3-12. Over 1000 schools in Asia and over 300,000 students in 16 countries have adopted the circuit and participate in it making it the most widely regarded competition in the region.
Arjun Mehta, Grade 3 has recently started playing and played his first tournament and reached the semi-finals of the National Squash Tournament, Squashters U-9 under the aegis of Squash Racquets Federation of India this week, organised at Hamdard School.
At this tournament, Arjun also played in the U-11 age group (along with his age group of U-9) where he also won one match. Overall, 500 players from 21 states participated in this squash tournament across multiple age groups. After playing half a dozen challenging matches, he ranked 4th and was awarded with a trophy.
Rhea Chadha, Grade 10 has written a paper that was published in the academic journal - the IOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science (IOSR-JHSS). She worked with Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) and Learn with Leaders (LWL) to understand the process of academic research. Her research paper was on the kind of environment Indian women authors face in their writing efforts. She interviewed 15 Indian women authors as part of her research, created a research design to understand the environment these authors faced and summarized the process and the results in the paper. She has herself co-authored the book 'Life as a Teacher' in the year 2021.
Her paper ‘Inspiring Indian Women Authors: Creating a supportive environment’ was accepted by the International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR) after a double-blind peer review to maintain the standard of its journals.
Click here to view her paper
Viraj Sing Goel, Grade 7 won a “GOLD Medal in the 37th Delhi State Shooting Championship” that was held at Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range, Delhi.
He competed in the Under 16 Sub Youth ISSF Air Rifle Category and scored 602.4. With this win, Viraj continues to be the Number 1 Ranked Player in Delhi in the Under 16 age category for the second consecutive year.
Manaasvi Vij, our grade XI student won Gold Medal in the 50-meter and 200-meter Butterfly Swimming Events in the SGFI State Games which is going on in Ambala.
She has now secured a spot in the Student Games Fedration India - National Games wherein she will be representing our Shiv Nadar School.
Congratulations to Manaasvi Vij!
Prayaan Bhatia, Grade 5 - Ranthambore, participated in "4th HARYANA STATE QWON KI DO (M and W) CHAMPIONSHIPS 2022-2023" held at Dr. Mangal Sen Multipurpose Gymnasium Hall (Sports Complex), Rohtak and won Silver Medal. The event was held on 30-10-2022.
Congratulations to Prayaan!
Aanya Bhatia of grade 8 has been selected for the Haryana Team in 47th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship 2022. Basketball Federation of Haryana selected top 12 girls from all over the Haryana and our Aanya is one of them.
Coaching camp of Haryana Team for the 47th Sub-Junior National Basketball Championship 2022-23 will be conducted from 3rd to 12th November 2022 at Hisar, Haryana.
Congratulations to young Aanya!
Prayaan Bhatia, Grade 5 - Ranthambore secured Silver Medal in the '4th HARYANA STATE QWON KI DO (M & W) CHAMPIONSHIPS 2022-2023' held at Dr. Mangal Sen Multipurpose Gymnasium Hall (Sports Complex), Rohtak on 30th October.
Congratulations to young Prayaan!
Maira Sikka of Grade 6 appeared in the U-14 Roller Skating Federation of India State Championship. She participated in Three Events and Won Gold medal in one, Silver medal in the second event and Bronze Medal in the Third and Final Event.
She will play the Nationals that are scheduled between 11th - 22nd December 2022, in Bengaluru.
All the best to our little champ!