Shining at the World Scholar’s Cup by Prachi Sharma Gr 8B

The ‘World Scholar’s Cup’ an event hosted by Indirapuram Public School was founded by Daniel Berdichevsky .We (Samarth Modi – Form 7, Aditya Jain Form 7 & Myself) took part in the event on the 19th and the 20th of January 2016. The event was on a large scale which saw participation by about 1000 students from 33 schools in Delhi NCR along with some schools from Mumbai and Patna. 

The idea behind the event was to create something different from the traditional academic competitions and conferences held round the year. The approach was to make academic participation joyful and rewarding at the same time.

It was a tournament which offered an opportunity for all round enrichment and motivated us to not just demonstrate our existing strengths but to discover new ones.

The theme for this year was ‘An Imperfect World’.

Based on the theme were the team events we took part in – 

1 -  Team Debate – An interesting format where we had 15 minutes to research on a topic and our argument, with full access to the Internet. After that we were all supposed to speak for 4 minutes each. The topics we got for debate were- All is fair in love and war, Lying on the internet should be illegal, and India could survive a zombie outbreak. 

2 - Collaborative writing – We got six statements, each from a different subject area and were asked to choose one to argue for or against. We got 30 minutes to prepare with our teammates, then an hour by ourselves to compose the most persuasive essay possible, then 15 more minutes to work together at the end.  

3 - Scholars Bowl – This was a buzzer round with all the teams. Every question that came our way was more difficult than the one before. Together, as a team, we solved analytical questions and multimedia challenges.

4 - Scholars Challenge It was multiple choice. The Challenge looked like any other test, but with an alpaca-powered twist: we could mark more than one answer per question. The fewer we marked, the more points we could earn if we were right. 

Together as a team we did a great job and we made it to the “Global Round” however we have a long way to go. 

We plan to go to Bangkok for the 2016 Global Round where 3000 scholars from over 40 countries will take part. I look forward to an interesting June 2016.