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The Straits Times September 17, 2007 |
Indian school to set up Branch in S'pore |
BY RAVI VELLOOR
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India Bureau-Chief
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IN NEW DELHI
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| SINGAPORE is set to get another Indian school. NPS International School, a unit of Bangalore's Well -regarded National Public school, Will start enrolling student in January next year, seeking to tap the rising Indian expatriate population in Singapore and neighbouring countries |
| A126,000 sq ft building on a 2.42 ha plot in the east of the island has been identified, although the precise location cannot be mentioned pending fire Safety clearance, organisers said, Classes are expected to begin in April. |
| National public School, established in 1959, has more than 8000 students in six schools in the southern Indian metropolis of Bangalore and one in Chennai, The International School Bangalore, also run by NPS, has student of 40 nationalities, mainly children of people working in India 's technology hub. |
| "We are targeting an estimated 60,000 Indian families in Singapore," Dr.Bindu Hari, dean of schools, said from Bangalore, "At about $600 a month our fees will probably be a little higher than other Indian schools, but that is because we are looking to hire the best teachers and provide smaller classes". |
| Singapore already has two reputed Indian Schools - the Global Indian international school, Which is set to open a, third campus, and the DPS International School. |
| But Indian expats are bound to welcome the Wider choice of schools offering curriculum closer to that taught in India, said economist P.K.Basu, who is also president of the Indian Club, an Association of-indian expats in Singapore. |
| NPS International sees its connection to Bangalore as a unique selling point. |
| Talent is increasingly flowing back and forth between the cities, whether in IT companies such As IBM, or design and engineering firms such as Singapore's Jurong International . |
| Said Dr K.P. Gopalkrishna founder-chairman of NPS: "We guarantee admission to any of our students in Singapore whose parents get transferred, to Bangalore". |
| He said That While the school would have a nolistic approach to education, there would be emphasis on academic excellence, and the curriculum will mix Indian and international subjects. |
| "We want our students to be competent enough to get admission to the best universities in the world. Our curriculum is also tailored to breed entrepreneurship " he said. |
| While there had been inquiries over the years from countrieswith large expat indian populations, NPS had been hesitand to Spread its wings overseas . |
| But Dr Gopalkrishna said: "Your Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam Spent several hours with us some months ago while on a visit to Bangalore, and that gave us immense confidence about picking Singapore for our first foray abroad, "We have been thoroughly impressed with the speed and, efficiency with which the education Ministry operated to make us feel welcome." |
| vallour@sph.com.sg |
THE HINDU November 20, 2006 |
A trophy and a visit to NASA |
| National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore, wins national-level Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz |
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WHIZKIDS: The team from NPS Indiranagar, flanked by the runners-up, the quiz master, Ochinthya Sharma, Bobby Mitra, MD, Texas Instruments, India, and Sylvia Subbaiah of the TI India Foundation
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| National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore, won the first national-level `Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz' conducted by Texas Instruments (India) Pvt. Ltd., the Indian arm of Texas Instruments Inc., in partnership with the Karnataka Quiz Association (KQA). The school faced stiff competition in the contest held at the Sriram Centre for Art and Culture, Safdar Hashmi Marg, New Delhi. |
| The winning team of Sriharsha V. Bhat and Mayukh Samanta walked away with the Texas Instruments trophy and the much coveted all-expense paid trip to NASA, Houston and the Texas Instruments Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication Facility at Dallas. |
| This is the first time that the Jack Kilby Science and Technology Quiz has been extended beyond Bangalore, into Chennai and New Delhi. Regional rounds were conducted in Bangalore, Chennai and Delhi prior to the national finals. |
| The Quiz has been an annual feature in Bangalore since 2003. |
| A total of 135 teams participated in the Delhi round. There was overwhelming response at other centres as well with participation from 516 teams in Chennai and 417 teams in Bangalore. |
| "The growing calibre of the students' year on year has made us constantly raise the bar to challenge these bright young minds and foster in them the spirit of enquiry in science and technology. They truly are representative of the world class talent that Bangalore is known for," said Biswadip (Bobby) Mitra, Managing Director of Texas Instruments (India) Pvt. Ltd, while giving away the prizes. V. Sreevatsan and V. Prashant of SRDF Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Chennai, were placed second. |
| G. Sidharth and Shubham Prakhar of Delhi Public School, R.K Puram, Delhi, came third. They were awarded trophies and certificates. |
| Some of the prizes won included robotic kits, merit awards, digital cameras and telescopes keeping in line with the quiz's objective of spreading innovation. The quiz was conducted by Ochintya Sharma from The Karnataka Quiz Association. |
The HINDU Jan 25, 2006 |
Young authors give it a go in Bangalore |
Staff Reporter
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| 1,200 students participate in the contest |
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| BANGALORE: Over 1,200 students from 125 schools participated in the Bangalore city finals of the "Classmate Young Author Contest 2005" organised by ITC Ltd. at the St. Joseph's College auditorium here on Tuesday. |
| A creative writing workshop conducted by Pavan Padaki, Creative Director, Brand Comm, marked the event. Competitions in story writing in the genres of science fiction, thriller/detective and fantasy were held for students from Class IX to XII. |
| A panel of judges headed by renowned writer Ruskin Bond will shortlist the best stories from 15 cities for the national finals. |
| The contest, now in its third year, witnessed participation from 4,000 schools across 15 major cities in the country. |
London trip
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| The winner of the Classmate Young Author 2005 will be taken on a seven-day trip to London for a literary tour covering London, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon and Edinburgh. |
| All 15 finalists will win prizes such as computers, camcorders and digital cameras. The best stories will be published by Rupa & Co. |
Success
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| "Classmate Young Author Contest has been a grand success during the past two years. Given its popularity among schools, this year we decided to take it to more cities. |
| For the city finals, schools were allowed to send eight participants instead of two, which will increase participation, and the competition will be tougher," Chand Das, Chief Executive, ITC Greeting Cards, said. |
| The Classmate Young Author Contest 2005 is held in three stages: the school level, city finals and the national finals in Mumbai. |
15 cities
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| The contest, in association with Rupa & Co, is being conducted by ITC Ltd. in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Chandigarh, Pune, Coimbatore, Guwahati, Nagpur and Lucknow. |
| In the contest held the previous year, the national jury comprised Mr. Bond, Gita Hariharan, Subhadra Sengutpa, Meher Marfatia, Reena Puri and Monisha Mukundan. |
Last year's winners
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| Jyoti Iyer of Lucknow was adjudged "The Classmate Young Author 2004" for her story "Post Box No. 99." Bangalore girl Debi Talukdar from National Public School had won the city finals for her story "A Bald Man's Comb." |
| The story revolved around human emotions of an abandoned cancer patient finding the strength to fight his terminal illness. |
Hindu Business Line, August 2005 |
TCS IT quiz kicks off in Bangalore |
Our Bureau
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| Bangalore , Aug. 7 |
| CONNECT Sachin Tendulkar to a group of friends and some black berries to arrive at the name of a company... " |
| Even before the audience blinked, pat came the answer, `Airtel'. And how did the 11th standard would-be techie arrive at the name? "Sachin is the brand ambassador for Airtel, the company which has just introduced a Blackberry wireless solution in India, and `friends' is the company's promotion theme." |
| To say that Genext in Bangalore is well-connected to the IT world would be an understatement of its tech awareness. |
| At the TCS IT Wiz in Bangalore, toughies such as these were cracked without a blink: Who are carders (credit card hackers), who is the Enchantress of Numbers (Ada Lovelace, the founder of scientific computing), Panda is an anti-virus software, and Digicel is one of the sponsors of the current triseries in Sri Lanka. |
| When asked to connect Akebono (a sumo wrestler) to the theme song from `Kaal' in just five seconds, the audience was sure that this would put the young systems down. |
| "Malaika Arora is the brand ambassador for Yahoo in India and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang's first workstation was named after this sumo wrestler," was the confident answer and it was the right one too. Such fast thinking prompted Mr N.G. Subramaniam, Vice-President and Head, TCS, Bangalore to comment: "The knowledge of these students will make us go back humbled." |
| After five rounds of answering such high-tech questions, National Public School, Indiranagar walked away with the first prize, followed by MES Kishore Kendra and Jain College. |
| The seventh edition of the TCS IT Wiz kicked off in Bangalore to a packed hall today and will soon be taken to Chennai, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad, Pune, and Kolkata. |
The Tribune, July 10, 2000 |
Five teenagers to get Lucent jobs |
From Imran Qureshi
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| BANGALORE, July 9 — Five Indian teenagers, among the "best and brightest minds" in the cities of Bangalore and Chennai, have been offered jobs by the US-based Lucent Technologies. |
| Lucent Technologies (India's) Research and Development Department has handed over letters of offer of employment to the five teenagers studying in Class 11 and Class 12, to "encourage youngsters to get into the science and technology and mathematics area," company officials said. |
| The four boys and a girl were selected for employment after they came up tops among 655 of the "best and highest minds" in Bangalore, Chennai as well as Hyderabad who took a two-four examination in physics, chemistry, mathematics and general knowledge, to become the first batch of Bell Labs scholars. |
| The five are Arjun K. Bansal and Vijay Kumar of National Public School, Indiranagar, Bangalore; Shruti Chandrasekhar of National Public School, Rajajinager, Bangalore; Arvind Thiagarajan of DAV Boys Sr. Secondary School, Gopalapuram, Chennai; and Sundeep Venkatraman of the N. Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan S.S. School, Nungambakkam, Chennai. |
| "They are the brightest of the brightest. If you see the scholarship selection criteria, they are really the cream of the crowd. So given that, we have absolutely no doubt that they will excel in whatever field they choose. They have the opportunity so they can focus on physics, chemistry and mathematics rather than worrying about which job or which career to choose," says Krishna Tanaku, President and Managing Director, Lucent Technologies India Research & Development. |
| The five Bells Labs scholars will receive their awards — Rs 25,000 with the school getting Rs 50,000 per winner for equipment and tools to enhance the quality of education it provides — and the job offers at a function to be held in their city of residence at a later date. |
| Lucent Technologies is not putting any conditions on the students. It is an option from the individual student standpoint. Obviously, he or she can choose to go wherever he or she wants to. There is no binding agreement on the part of the student. |
| Will the scholars take up the job offer after they complete their graduation? "I may just take the job. If I get a job even before you have finished your education," says Shruti. Arjun considers it the "best option" at the moment since R & D interests him. And, Vijay, who wanted to do electronics, and "always wanted to be there," was excited. "There is nothing better than this," says Sundeep Venkatraman. —IANS |