GIIS India campuses conducted “Art and Essay Writing” competitions as a part of the Real World Challenges Convention (RWCC), 2017 to be held at GIIS East Coast Singapore on 17th November, 2017. This was a prejudged event whose shortlisting for the final round was conducted by each campus at respective school premises. Providing GIIS students with international exposure, the RWCC competition provides a platform for GIIS students to network, foster innovation and international entrepreneurial skills like never before.

Global Indian International School (GIIS), Noida conducted the final round of the competition on 1st September, 2017 where students from grade 6 onwards participated with great enthusiasm and fervour. The idea was to allow students to think out of the box, and pen down their thoughts and opinions on paper. The topic for this year’s essay writing competition for the two categories i.e. Middle School (MS, Grades 6-8) and Secondary (SEC, Grades 9-12) students was “The future of technology and its limitations” and “Change in the hands of innovators and thinkers” respectively.

Around 35 students participated in the first round and out of the many entries received, 5 were shortlisted. Students shortlisted for the final showdown are as follows:

Besides this, the Art competition envisaged a lot of creative expressions on paper. The topic being ‘Recycled to Renewed’ gave wings to the imagination of students to sketch amazing pictorial descriptions. The students brought their imagination of an eco-friendly world and the ways of recycling organic and plastic wastes.  Students were judged on their creative skills along with other rubrics like theme relevancy, presentation, clarity of the message, etc. Out of the numerous entries received, 10 best entries i.e. 5 from each category were shortlisted for the final round. Students shortlisted for the final showdown are as follows:

The final entries have been sent to Singapore and the final results for the above said competitions will be out shortly. Here’s wishing our students best of luck and congrats to all the shining stars of GIIS Noida. 
May the final victory be ours!