The Website for Chennai school children
By Smruthi S
Looking down the memory lane, all of us would recollect our childhood days when we soiled our clothes either playing with clay or with mud. Now, in this fast-moving era, one cannot imagine an entire family sitting under a banyan tree and playing with mud and clay. But it would have seemed possible for
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By Sara Karthik
Landmark at Apex Plaza was crowded with kids on the evening of May 4, 2012. Children were seen hurriedly flipping through fictions and novels, They were sitting on the large red mat, introducing themselves to their soon-to-be friends. A cameraman bustled about, snapping pictures of all the children
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P. Aravindhan shot this from the Loco Works bridge near Perambur. He captured it when he was on his way back, from an outing with his friends at about 6 O' clock in the evening in March this year. He used a Nikon L120 camera, with the dusk mode. Aravindhan loves photography and is just getting
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By Smruthi S
The Chettinad Vidyashram school campus in R. A. Puram saw an unusual buzz of activity for a day during the summer holidays. It was on May 3, 2012. If one thought it was probably the X and XII graders attending special classes or the teachers doing their exam corrections, then guess again! It was an
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If you’re an astronomy freak, you shouldn’t have missed this one. Marsha Sue Ivins, a retired astronaut, cosmonaut, space engineer addressed a group of students at Birla Planetarium on April 30, 2012. She used to be more of a flight engineer in her career. She began telling the students about
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YOCee, a website for children, launched its third edition of its ‘Chennai Kids’ Directory on April 29, 2012 . It was held at ARKAY Convention Centre, located in Mylapore. It was an interactive meeting as they had organised a puppetry making session where the children learnt to make puppets with
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With inputs from YOCee editorial team Many parts in Chennai felt the tremors of an earthquake that struck off the coast of Indonesia around 2 p.m. IST. It is recorded at 8.6 on the Richter scale. The tremors lasted for a little over 30 seconds. People living in apartments came out of the building.
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By Nandini P S
Photos by Madan Mohan There were quite a lot of people around the Madanapuram Lake in Mudichur, in the Chennai suburbs, on a quiet Saturday afternoon. They were there to clean up the lake as part of a program organized by the Environmentalist Foundation of India (EFI) along with the US Consulate,
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By YOCee Team
Anagha Sethuraman, a student of class 6 in Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chetpet, won the Chennai city finale of the HDFC Life Spell Bee - India Spells 2012 event. Powered by The Times of India in association with Horlicks, the event was held at the St. Bede's Anglo Indian School in Santhome on Feb.
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By Smruthi S
Did you ever know why the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas is celebrated in India every year on the 9th of January? Well, this was one among the G.K. questions put forth to the high school students who took part in the quiz competition conducted by the Coast Guard Regional Headquarters (East) & Coast Guard
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