For the 70 schools and 350 participants, Scolympics was not just another event. A spelling competition and a quiz for the younger children in schools was a huge draw with the Chinmaya Heritage Centre in Chetpet seeing a house with kids, parents and teachers.
Chennai based Scolympics, hosted their first events for school children on February 2, 2013.
The individual event, Speller was held in two tracks, Speller 1 for children in classes 4 and 5 and Speller 2 for children in classes 6, 7 and 8.
Quizticon was a team event with over 80 teams participating consisting of children in classes 6 to 8. In the Speller 1, Sunithi S from SBOA topped and Tejas and Vichar Lochan of PSBB came as runners up.
In the Speller 2, Aswin Narayanan from National Public School was the winner and Pranav Kamesh from PS Senior and Kardhama Ravi from Modern Senior were the runners up.
The Quizticon event had more than 80 teams from the city schools. Archishman and Keshav Narayan of PSBB T.Nagar walked away with the first prize.
The teams of Pranav Kamesh and Pranav Hari from P S Senior and the team of Aswin Narayanan and Soumya Ranjan from National Public School bagged the second and third prize respectively. Standard Chartered and Little Nathella supported the events.
Scolympics, founded by Hema Srinivas and Gopal Kidao aims to help children develop life skills in addition to the academic knowledge. They plan to host debates, Word Bees, public speaking, essay writing activities and contests.
Website: www.scolympics.in
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