5 April 2014

Camp K12 Competition, Ms. Sana Noor Primary ICT Teacher


I had a great amount of apprehension while the hurried, last minute registration process for the Camp K12 competition was going on. The reason simply being that we were just about two weeks away from the PYP Authorization visit! Camp K12 is an online technology competition which is conducted across the country and numerous schools take part in it, the fact which made me all the more nervous.

There were various categories under which our students took part – graphic designing, computer animation and web designing.

Once registered, the responsibility was primarily shouldered by each student’s parents to get them working under the category they had taken part in. The students, however, were their usual enthusiastic selves and kept coming back to me for tips, ideas and tools to be used. A great attraction about this competition was the whole public voting aspect on which 30% of the results depended. The students shared their links with all family and friends in order to get maximum votes. After several tiers of verification, their work was finally up for the jury to gauge. Within a period of about a week, which seemed too long to the eager students and their parents, we finally got to know the results.

It makes me extremely proud to be sharing with the school community that two of our students won in different categories :-
•  Devmay Dewan (Form 4) – First Position in graphic designing category 1 (KG to IV)
Devmay morphed his own picture.
•  Aditi Amritesh (Form 4) – Special prize “Young Web Designer’s Award” in web designing
Aditi had created a virtual nail art salon called “Tips n Toes”.
I would also take this opportunity to extend gratitude towards the parents for being backbones for each of our participants. If not for their support, we would surely not have bagged these awards.