Presidency Group of Institutions Announced winners of 5th Presidency Challenge Cup 2012

July 25, 2012 - PRLog -- Bangalore, July 25th, 2012- Keen to nurture the talents of the youth and provide them necessary exposure, the Presidency Group of Institutions holds a competition of the highest standards named Presidency Challenge Cup since 2008, the year of its inception.  More than 100 schools participated in various co-curricular activities resulting in the Presidency Challenge Cup 2012 (24TH & 25TH July 2012) held at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bangalore.

Presidency Challenge Cup is one of the biggest literary events in Bangalore organized for the benefit of school students. For two eventful days   NIMHANS Convention resonated with enthusiastic participants testing their spellings, oratory, debating skills and more than anything else their confidence. Competitions including Wordsmith (spell bee), Elocution (prose & poem), Quiz, and War of Words (Debate) were organized to add variety to the event. What added to the enthusiasm was the interesting array of prizes viz laptops, i pads, Tablets, e books etc that awaited the winners.

Some of the leading participating schools were:

1)   Kumarans School, Bangalore
2)   The Brigade School, Bangalore
3)   Jain International Residential School, Bangalore
4)   National Public School, Bangalore
5)   National Academy of Learning, Bangalore
6)    Delhi Public School, Bangalore
7)   Army Public School, Bangalore
8)   Navrachna School, Vadodara,
9)   New Horizon Public School, Bangalore
10)    Chinmaya International School, Coimbatore,
11)   Mahatma Montessori Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madurai
12)   Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Cochin

The Chief Guest for Inaugration of the Presidency Challenge Cup 2012 was Mr.Javagal Srinath, a former Indian Cricketer. Also present were the members of the Management of the Institution Mr. Nissar Ahmed, Chairman, Presidency Group of Institutions, Ms. Nafeesa Ahmed, Director, Presidency Group of Institutions and Mr. G. Thangadurai, Director, Presidency Group of Schools. The maverick quiz master Mr. Giri Balasubramaniam, popularly known as Pickbrain hosted the event. Giri, incidentally holds seven Limca records to his credit for achievements in the area of quizzing and has hosted more than 1500 shows across 52 destinations in India and abroad.
Speaking on the momentous occasion, Mr. Nissar Ahmed, Chairman, Presidency Group of Institutions said that the group   which has been in the field of education for 4 decades now is glad to contribute to the growth and personality development of the youth. He added that it is a matter of joy to note that the event is not only popular but has also become a bench mark in the calendar of inter school competitions in Bangalore.  Echoing similar sentiments, Ms. Nafeesa Ahmed –Director, Presidency Group of Institutions added that the literary event has also become a get together of its kind, a melting pot of   talent.

Mr. G. Thangadurai, Director, Presidency Group of Schools appreciated the efforts of the participants.. He added that Presidency Group of schools is truly a wonderful learning community, wherein dedicated teachers and staff, work closely to promote communication skills and leadership qualities. Presidency Challenge Cup 2012 is organized to promote the extra co- curricular activities at state and International level. The stupendous support and patronage the event witnessed in its year of introduction in 2008, encouraged the group to introduce WOW- War of Words, Wordsmith and Elocution in the consecutive years. We have crossed a record number of 1100 participants this year.

The winners of the events are as listed below:

PRESIDENCY CHALLENGE CUP 2012 CHAMPION
 Gregorian Public School,Cochin.

Runners Up-Presidency School Bangalore South

Winners of other categories interschool events for Presidency Challenge Cup
Category                       School                                          Winner
1. Wordsmith               NPS, Indira Nagar                       Rohan Pai
2. Elocution Prose      Presidency, RT Nagar                Sri Karthik
3. Elocution Poem      Gregorian Public School            Lakshmi.S
4. WOW                         Vidya Niketan                               Nishant
5. Quiz                           St. Paul’s English School          Amogh Chakravarthy
                                                                                              & Nikhil Chandra R.


Runner’s Up

Category                               School                                                           Winner
1. Wordsmith                   The Deens Academy                                     Varun Sachin
2. Elocution Prose          NPS, hsr Layout                                             Sreyrs Srinivas
3. Elocution Poem          St. Francis Xaviers Girls High School        Lauren Rasquinha
4. WOW                            Gregorian Public School, Cochin                Manu Pius
5. Quiz                               Sharada Vidyalaya                                         Preetham Upadhayay
                                                                                                                     &   K.N.Bharath Rao