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.
