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2019 North South Foundation Regional Educational Bee Contests Concludes!

Press Release
05/02/2019

2019 North South Foundation Regional Educational Bee contests concludes!

North South Foundation (NSF) is a non-profit organization that was established 30 years ago in 1989. The mission of the organization is to provide college scholarships to economically poor, bright kids in India. These scholarships are funded by fees collected from educational bees conducted across 89 chapters in the US. Over 20,000 scholarships have been disbursed thus far, changing the lives of many scholarship recipients and their families!

NSF conducts various contests including Spelling, Vocabulary, Math, Geography, Science, Brain, Public Speaking, History and Essay Writing, over three weekends between March and April each year. NSF Massachusetts chapter conducted contests at TUFTS University on April 7th and at Fitchburg State University(FSU) during April 27th -28th weekend. Over 550 kids in grades Kindergarten to 12 participated in the two centers, while NSF had over 16,000 registrations nationwide!

Under the leadership of Chapter Directors (CDs) Mani Santhanam for Cambridge chapter and Santosh Sapkal for Worcester chapter and Technical Leads Dr. Meledath Govindan & Madavi Oliver, the Massachusetts chapters successfully completed the contests.

A combined awards ceremony was held at Kent Hall at FSU on Sunday, April 28th to recognize all the contestants and award trophies to the winners of the competitions. Dr. Kris Iyer, the Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Spring Bank Pharmaceuticals, an IND-stage drug discovery company presided over the awards ceremony. With over 28 years of experience in the biotech and pharma industry, Dr. Iyer has authored more than 110 scientific publications and has 200 US and international patents filed and issued in his name. Born and raised in a tiny village in Kerala, Dr. Iyer worked his way to become a successful entrepreneur and recipient of several prestigious awards in the Pharmaceutical field. He gave an inspirational speech that connected well with the audience, especially the kids! All the participants and winners of the bees received medals and trophies from Dr. Iyer.

The CDs from the two centers briefly spoke about the work of NSF and their roles within the organization.

Ramesh Govindan, son of Geeta & Dr. Meledath Govindan, who participated in NSF contests as a young kid and now volunteers for the organization shared his experiences of the positive impact NSF has had on his life’s journey. He encouraged the kids to keep competing and learning more and more each year.

Akshay Gowrishankar, son of Preeth & Gowrishankar, a senior at Acton-Boxborough high school was our youth speaker. He too has participated in various contests for several years. He spoke about how NSF taught him to be competitive and to volunteer. Akshay also stressed on working hard not just to win, but to learn. Akshay will be attending Caltech this fall.

Savitha Rajiv, the Regional Director for NSF Northeast and the Convener for the upcoming NSF National Finals that the Massachusetts and New Hampshire chapters are jointly hosting, encouraged parents to join the Finals team and volunteer. The 2019 National Finals will be held during August 9-11 at MIT. The top scoring 10% of contestants in various contests from across the US, about 1600 of them will be invited to participate at the Finals.

To learn more about NSF, please visit our website : www.northsouth.org To read testimonials from Scholarship recipients in India: https://www.northsouth.org/public/india/testimonials.aspx

If you are interested in volunteering for the finals, please contact Shitanshu Shekar: shitanshu@yahoo.com. If you would be interested in sponsorship opportunities, please contact Madavi Oliver: madavioliver@gmail.com. For any information related to NSF or the Finals, please contact Savitha Rajiv: Savitha.rajiv@northsouth.org.
NSF MA thanks our National Sponsor : TV Asia and local sponsor Kay Pee Jewellers. We would also like to thank Dr. Anil Saigal & Tufts University as well as Dr. Meledath Govindan & Fitchburg State University for their continued support in providing the venues and covering all logistics that enables NSF to conducts the contests at no cost, each year.

Winners at TUFTS University

Math Level 1
1st Place    Soham Samanta
2nd Place    Vihaan Jain
3rd Place    Akshay Rao   

Math Level 2

1st Place    Adrita Samanta
2nd Place    Amal Balachundhar
3rd Place    Anand Swaroop   

Math Level 3
1st Place    Akshay Kumar
2nd Place    Rohith Raghavan
3rd Place    Aahan Mehra

Junior Science
1st Place    Mohita Chepeni
2nd Place    Srivatsan Marimuthu
3rd Place    Sharmada Rajaram   

Intermediate Science

1st Place    Anand Swaroop
2nd Place    Tarun Venkatesh
3rd Place    Ishan Roychowdhury   

Senior Science
1st Place    Rohan Venkatesh
2nd Place    Sahana Behera
3rd Place    Anuprabha Dandapat

Junior Spelling
1st Place    Aditya Tangella
2nd Place    Armaan Syed
3rd Place    Srivatsan Marimuthu   

Senior Spelling
1st Place    Rohit Paradkar
2nd Place    Mahnoor Kazi
3rd Place    Aadhavan Veerendra   

Intermediate Brain Bee

1st Place    Anuprabha Dandapat
2nd Place    Rohan Venkatesh
3rd Place    Savomit Sett   

Senior Brain Bee
1st Place    Adhvika Arunkumar
2nd Place    Rudra Sett
3rd Place    Shreya Nagri   
 

Winners at Fitchburg State University

Junior Essay Writing
1st Place   Vaishnavi Iyer
2nd Place Shruthika Senthilkumar
3rd  Place   Neha Nagireddy   

Intermediate Essay Writing
1st Place    Sanjana Pulaparthi
2nd Place    Saravu Mudundi
3rd Place    Janani Ganesh   

Senior Essay Writing

1st Place    Rithika Prasad
2nd Place    Nikhita Athipathy

Math Level 1
1st Place    Siddharth Prabhu Shankar
2nd Place    Sarvesh Nandakumar
3rd Place    Anish Saravanan   

Math Level 2
1st Place    Sriaditya Vaddadi
2nd Place    Suhaas Goluguri
3rd Place    Vybhav Velamoor   

Math Level 3
1st Place    Vishal Nandakumar
2nd Place    Advay Goel
3rd Place    Sumanth Sura

Junior Geography Bee
1st Place    Rishik Kundu
2nd Place    Rohan Nair
3rd Place    Aaruni Moudgal   

Senior Geography Bee
1st Place    Aritra Ghosh
2nd Place    Sujith Yeruva
3rd Place    Pravar Mukkala   

Junior Spelling
1st Place    Rithika Sunchu
2nd Place    Rohan Nair
3rd Place    Risheth Rajasekaran   

Senior Spelling
1st Place    Harshitha Sunchu
2nd Place    Gayatri Iyer
3rd Place    Saketh Madhusudhan   

Junior Vocabulary Bee
1st Place    Siddhant Chouhan
2nd Place    Rushil Kelapure
3rd Place    Sameeksha Pasunuru   

Intermediate Vocabulary Bee
1st Place    Akhilsai Damera
2nd Place    Pratham Juvekar
3rd Place    Annika Singh   

Junior Public Speaking
1st Place    Sanjana Pulaparthi
2nd Place    Advay Goel
3rd Place    Ankith Bharadwaj   

Senior Public Speaking
1st Place    Rithika Prasad
2nd Place    Amir Hameed
3rd Place    Nikhita Athipathy   




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