Friday, October 08, 2010 : Badminton Hall
Today, the captains and the student heads of the school conducted a really great intra house quiz. It was entirely organized by the students and the planning was so good, that it would put professional competitions to shame.
The students first held a 20 question general elimination round which was open to all who were interested. After that, the top scorers had to go through a more grueling question and answer round and the top two achievers of each house were selected. A brilliant idea that the student leaders had was that the third participant would be a chosen student of their house. So, the whole house selected the third participant and the teams for the Grand Finale were ready.
The teams came up to the badminton hall along with all their classmates. 4 tables were arranged on the stage, one for each house. The participants took their seats and behind each team, was the vice captain of the house. They were there to applaud and encourage their team, as and when necessary. And then the quiz began.
The head boy and head girl (Shubhankar and Rujuta) were the quiz masters and the score keepers were the house captains (Shubhang, Nikita, Taniya and Mahimna). The rounds went on smoothly and in quick succession as the teams were bursting with answers and when they were not the crowd was! All in all, a very alert and charged atmosphere.
The teams performed very well. There were some really brilliant answers, even us faculty members were surprised to see that students had gathered such diverse information. There were some really cute answers by the junior-most teams as well. For example Who is the author of Romeo and Juliet? Enid Blyton! The quizzees obviously substituted a very famous author for another one, and we still applauded their logic and quick thinking.
And then, much too soon, the quiz was over. In the junior section, Blue house picked up a good lead early on and maintained it right till the end. In the senior section, there was a tie between the Blue and Red House team. Ultimately, in the tiebreaker, the Red House team won.
Here are the teams that took part in the Mega Final
Junior Section (5th and 6th)
Red score 95 Shreyas Kulkarni, Aditya Pujari, Anish Kulkarni
Blue score 110 Rutuj Anturkar, Siddesh Dalvi, Varad Khirsagar
Green score 55 Kartik Shidhaye, Param Gandhi, Adwait Raste
Yellow score 50 Rohit Jayanti, Shaunak Sarpotdar, Nandika Bhattacharya
Senior Section (7th , 8th and 9th)
Red score 180 Apurva Salvi, Pradyumna Jagdhane, Omkar Pawar
Blue score 165 Chinmay Markale, Rigved Sardey, Pradyumna Gaikwad
Green score 90 Sayli Bapat, Pallavi Shintre, Renuka Joshi
Yellow score 85 Adwait Joshi, Abhishek Muluk, Neel Kelkar
The organizing team was as follows :
Heads Shubhankar and Rujuta
Captains Mahimna, Taniya, Nikita and Shubhang
Vice Captains Omkar, Eshaan, Sujoy and Shivani
All in all, it was an excellent afternoon. The organization was good, the event was well planned, the organizers were well prepared and at no point were they caught by surprise. Kudos to our student government. Maybe the real leaders can pick up a few pointers from these youngsters!
This event has given us the confidence to throw more competitions at the leaders and let them organize them. We are sure they will do a wonderful job. Well done, team!
