Report: Gaming Competition

On 26^th September 2014, eight students of class XI and XII from Arwachin International School participated in the ‘Game Jam Titans 2014’, an annual Game development competition organized by MindBox and Nasscom at UP Technical University, Noida.  The students were asked to develop the games based on two themes : Brazil and Marathon.

 25 Schools from all over NCR took part in the competition. All the students amazed the Judges with their talent of making Pro like games. The judges appreciated the students of our school for the effort they had put in, despite such a short period of preparation. Even though they could not win but it was a very good exposure for all the students as they not only got to know the famous personalities from the Game development world i.e the Jury Panel but they also learnt how the games are developed which they play at home.

ZONAL KHO-KHO COMPETITION 2014-2015

The Arwachin International School team participated in the Zonal , junior & sub-junior kho-kho championship which was held at Siddharth International School Loni road, from 6 – 15 September,2014. Sixteen schools of zone-6 participated in this championship.

The Kho-Kho championship – The junior boys of our school secured 3^rd position and sub-junior boys secured 2^ndposition.

GURUTSAV , 2014

The ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, announced an essay writing competition and invited entries from the students to share inspiring stories about their teachers who play a pivotal role in shaping and moulding their lives and enable them to develop as citizen of the 21^st century.

In order to appreciate and acknowledge the work of teachers, MHRD announced “Gurutsav, 2014” to celebrate 5^th September, the day when one of the greatest teachers, Dr. Sarvpalli Radhakrishnan , was born.

The activity was conducted in offline and online mode. The selected Arwachinians from Classes 1 to 12 participated in the competition. The topics were:

Classes1 – 5       The day my teacher gave me a good remark

Classes 6 – 8       The year I got a wonderful teacher

Classes 9 – 12     My friend told me about this teacher who was a change agent

                              In his/her life     OR

                              I was a changed person after the intervention of this teacher

                              OR  I can never forget this particular teacher because…………….

The word limit for classes 1-5 was 200 words, classes 6 – 8 was 500 words and

Classes 9 – 12  was 1000 words.

It was not merely a competitive activity but it also provided a platform to enable the entire nation to pay rich tribute to the teaching community.