Telugu- Wonder Kids
* "Destination Imagination Global"- California State level: 2nd prize winners- Monika, Poojitha:
Monika Palabindela(Parents- Anitha, Biksham), Poojitha Karumanchi(Parents: Chandra, Raghava), Vishali Amin, William yeh, Kristin Anderson, Catherina Xao, and Hana Chaung)- DI team has won 2nd prize in state level from “Louis E. Stocklmeir Elementary school” on March 31 2007, Sunnyvale, CA.
They won first prize from Regional level then they went to state level on and got 2nd prize. They have been practicing since six months every single day by working really hard. Daksha who is the project manager for this team, she is been working hard with them making a skit, sceneries, gadget ( light-o-matic ), maracas , and rehearsing their skit every day.
Monika palabindela, Poojitha karumanchi are proud of Telugu Kids.
About "Destination Imagination Global":
Destination Imagination is the World's Largest Creative Problem Solving Program for Kids! Over 200,000 students in over 40 countries and most of the United States participate in Destination Imagination global. This popular process-based program helps young people build lifelong skills in creative and critical thinking, teamwork, time management and problem solving.
Up to seven participants work together as a team for eight to twelve weeks to create their unique solution to a Team Challenge, which can have a focus that is theatrical, structural, improvisational, scientific or technical - or a blend of several disciplines.
Teams also learn and practice creative quick-thinking skills for the Instant Challenge portion of the program. Destination ImagiNation helps young people learn in a fun and supportive environment, and the valuable skills they have acquired will be with them for a lifetime.
Participants learn unique and critical life skills including teamwork, critical and creative thinking, project management, resource management, mutual respect, research and presentation skills and, as all challenges must be strictly team-solved, self-reliance. These skills make Destination Imagination participants more valuable to their communities and as future employees.
Creativity is not just a school-year activity. Many state, local and international affiliates offer creativity activities for kids all year.
Instant Challenge: The Destination ImagiNation Instant Challenge is a Challenge teams are asked to solve in a very short period of time at their Tournament, without knowing ahead of time what the Challenge will be.
Purpose: To put team’s creative problem solving abilities, creativity, and teamwork to the test in a short, time-driven Challenge.
Educational Focus of Instant Challenge: The team’s use of creative problem solving strategies, assessment and use of available materials, and teamwork under tight time constraints. Encourages teams to develop creative problem solving and time management strategies, performance and improvisational techniques, Develops the ability to quickly assess the properties of provided materials, and learn how to creatively manipulate materials for a unique solution.
Source: Spotlight , Q3(July-Sept)- "America Bharathi", ATA Magazine.
* Grand Prize winner of "Drawing Your Dreams” poster contest- Lohitha Kethu
“Dreams …ambition…imagination…hope” - these are the words that could be used to describe the creations of students from kindergarten to 12th grade who participated in the Virginia College Savings Plan’s 10th anniversary “Drawing Your Dreams” poster contest. The contest is awarding more than $550,000 in scholarships, made possible through a private corporate gift. More than 11,000 entries were submitted by students across Virginia since the contest opened in December 2006. The goal of this 10th anniversary poster contest was to inspire students to dream big and to realize that their dreams can become reality through higher education. The winning posters were selected by a panel of judges, including renowned Richmond artist Parks Pegram Duffy, Dr. Richard E. Toscan, Dean of Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, and University of Richmond Professor David Moore, as well as arts educators, other artists, art collectors and a gallery owner.
Lohitha Kethu, a a sixth grade student at Oak Hill Elementary School of Fairfax County Public Schools system, is one among the 13 grand prize winners in this creative and prestigious contest making her the first poster contest-Grand prize winner from "Indian Community". These 13 scholarship winners were chosen from a group of 260 finalists across Virginia.
Lohitha will receive a four-year university contract (scholarship) from Virginia Prepaid Education Program (VPEP), a tax free Internal Revenue Code Section 529 plan that guarantees to cover undergraduate tuition and mandatory fees at Virginia public institutions, private colleges or out-of-state schools. In addition, she will also receive a Virginia Education Savings TrustSM (VEST) account with a total value of $275.
Lohitha is the daughter of Mr. Sashikanth and Dr. Latha and is the grand daughter of Professor. Kethu Viswanadha Reddy (Sahitya Akademy Awardee-1997).
Source: Spotlight , Q2(Apr-June)- "America Bharathi", ATA Magazine.
* Indian whiz kids: National champions of the "SIP Prodigy 2006 -Abacus and Brain Gym"- Vishnu, Srija.
M.Vishnu Vardhan Reddy(6 yrs old,second standard)- Level-I National Champion Trophy, T.R. Shreeja(11 years,sixth standard)- Level-V National Champion Trophy: National champion of the "SIP Prodigy 2006 -Abacus and Brain Gym"(National competition of solving mathematical problems).
"SIP Prodigy 2006 -Abacus and Brain Gym"(National competition of solving mathematical problems): School children participating in the biggest ever National Competition on Abacus and Brain Gym in Hyderabad(Nov.2006).
Children in the age group of 6 to 12 years participated in a "national competition of solving mathematical problems" at Hyderabad International Convention Centre (HICC).
* To solve 90 problems of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in five minutes is not an easy task.
But for six-year-old M. Vishnu Vardhan Reddy is studying second, it is a cakewalk.
* M Vishnu Vardhan Reddy: a student of Narayana Concept School, Kukatpally, who solved "89 problems" in "Five minutes", bagged the "Level-I National Champion Trophy".
* T R Shreeja: Pallavi Model School, Bowenpally, grabbed the "Level-V National Champion Trophy" after solving "92 problems" in the specified time.
In all, 4,000 children in the age group of 6-12 years from all over the country participated in the competitions.
Nearly 1,500 students participated in the competition from the Andhra Pradesh State, out of which 1,000 students represented Hyderabad.
Ambitions of whiz kids:
* Vishnu Vardhan Reddy dreams to become a pilot.
* Shreeja wishes to be a professor in Mathematics.
J. Sampath Kumar, SIP Academy India Private Limited: "Training the youngsters emphasis was laid on speed, accuracy and concentration".
Vishnu, Shreeja represented India at "The SIP International Prodigy 2007" , competitions at Colombo in February2007
Source: Spotlight , Q2(Apr-June)- "America Bharathi", ATA Magazine.
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