The North South Foundation (NSF) is a non-profit, tax-exempt and voluntary organization that awards merit scholarships to exceptionally qualified needy students in India, entering colleges, regardless of religion, gender, caste or geographic origin.  In addition, NSF organizes activities such as spelling, math, vocabulary and geography contests for children of Indian origin living in USA.

The 8th MA regional educational contests of the North South Foundation were held on April 5 and 6 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge and April 12 and 13 at Fitchburg State College (FSC).  

Everyone who participated in an NSF bee is a winner since they learn something new every time they participate.  NSF contests are a journey.  Congrats to everyone who embarked and/or continued on this journey this April.

Over 180 (MIT) and 250 (FSC) contestants registered for Spelling, Vocabulary, Math, Geography and Essay Writing contests, combined.

NSF would like to acknowledge the efforts of this year’s Regional Coordinators:
Shitanshu Shekhar and Murali Sethumadhavan.  These events were made possible by Dr. Anu Annaswamy at MIT and Dr. Meledath Govindan at FSC.

Total contestants ~ 430
Funds raised from registration towards NSF-INDIA scholarships ~ $9,000.

Chief guests - Sudipta Singh, Partha Ghosh, Dilip Mathur and Dr. Anil Saigal talked to the children on the different days and gave away the medals.  

As a new initiative the MA chapter also hosted a food and school supplies drive and will be donating them good to local pantries and school projects.

MA chapter is hosting the Finals at MIT during labor day weekend.  If you are interested in volunteering for this event please send an email to Sangeeta Roy - hellosangeeta@yahoo.com.

Rank	Name	Grade	School*	Town*
JUNIOR VOCABULARY
1	Shivani Angappan	2	Home School	Natick
2	Surabhi Iyer	3	Benjamin Franklin Charter Public School	Franklin
3	Ananth Shastri	3	Schofield	Wellesley
INTERMEDIATE VOCABULARY
1	Giridhar Anand	7	Day School	Newton
1	Anish Thilagar	6	Hollis Upper Elementary School	Hollis
3	Akshat Shekhar	8	The Roxbury Latin School	West Roxbury
3	Suma Anand	7	Windsor School	Boston
SENIOR VOCABULARY
1	Ramesh Govindan	11	Nashoba Regional High School	Lancaster
MATH BEE LEVEL 1 (MIT)
1	Siddharth Baphna	2	Lincoln Elementary School	Brookline
1	Akshay Gowrishankar	1	Gates School	Acton
2	Vineet Alaparthi	2	Heights Elementary	Sharon
3	Samyukta Iyer	1	Angier School	Newton
MATH BEE LEVEL2 (MIT)
1	Rohit Rajiv	4	Norman E. Day School	Westford
2	Sahith Reddy	4	Grafton Elementary	Grafton
3	Vrinda Agarwal	5	Gates School	Acton
MATH BEE LEVEL 3 (MIT)
1	Akshat Shekhar	8	The Roxbury Latin School	West Roxbury
2	Nivedha Ram	7	Blanchard School	Boxborough
3	Giridhar Anand	7	Day School	Newton
MATH BEE LEVEL 1 (FSC)
1	Sathwik Karnik	2	Jackson School	Plainville
2	Akshaya Bala	2	Miller School	Westford
3	Arya Kunaparaju	2	Miller School	Westford
MATH BEE LEVEL2 (FSC)
1	Meghana Vagwala	5	Grafton Elementary	Grafton
2	Gowtham Manickam	5	Mill Pond School	Westborough
2	Ashwin Panda	4	Paton Elementary School	Shrewsbury
3	Deepika Kurup	4	Bicentennial Elementary School	Nashua
MATH BEE LEVEL 3 (FSC)
1	Nihal Gowravaram	6	Douglas Middle School	Acton
2	Anish Athalye	7	Worcester Academy	Worcester
3	Shree Nadkarni	8	Parker Middle School	Chelmsford
JUNIOR GEOGRAPHY BEE
1	Ethan Oliver	3	Oak Meadow Montessori	Littleton
2	Nihar Sheth	3	Norman E. Day School	Westford
3	Surabhi Iyer	3	Ben Franklin School	Franklin
SENIOR GEOGRAPHY BEE
1	Abhinav Kurada	4	Academy of Notre Dame	Tyngsboro
2	Karthik Karnik	4	Wood School	Swansea
3	Rahul Polu	7	Sharon Middle School	Sharon
JUNIOR ESSAY WRITING
1	Meghana Vagwala	5	Grafton Elementary	Grafton
2	Shashank Madhu	4	Fox Hill Elementary	Burlington
3	Nikita Minocha	5	Pike School	Andover
INTERMEDIATE ESSAY WRITING
1	Prakhar Sahay	7	R. J. Grey	Acton
2	Shree Nadkarni	8	Parker Middle School	Chelmsford
3	Mallika Govindan	8	Luther Burbank Middle	Lancaster
SENIOR ESSAY WRITING
1	Ramesh Govindan	11	Nashobha Regional High School	Lancaster
JUNIOR SPELLING BEE (MIT)
1	Ravi Raghavan	3	Bridge School	Lexington
2	Ashwin Krishnaswamy	3	Harrington Elementary School	N. Chelmsford
3	Janak Shah	3	Thoreau School	Concord
JUNIOR SPELLING BEE (FSC)
1	Dheeraj Yalamanchili	2	Armstrong Elementary School	Westborough
2	Surabhi Iyer	3	Ben Franklin School	Franklin
3	Anshul Joshi	2	Conant Elementary	Acton
SENIOR SPELLING BEE (MIT)
1	Shivani Angappan	2	Home School	Natick
2	Rohit Rajiv	4	Norman E. Day School	Westford
3	Aishwarya Iyer	6	Belmont Middle School	Belmont
SENIOR SPELLING BEE (FSC)
1	Akshat Shekhar	8	The Roxbury Latin School	West Roxbury
2	Mallika Govindan	8	Luther Burbank Middle school	Lancaster
3	Abhinav Pandey	7	Stony Brook Middle School	Westford
JUNIOR PUBLIC SPEKAING
1	Muneeba Syed	7	AMSA Charter School	Marlborough
2	Nivedha Ram	7	R. J. Grey Junior High	Acton
3	Abhishek Shivakumar	7	AMSA Charter School	Marlborough
SENIOR PUBLIC SPEAKING
1	Wajida Syed	12	Shrewsbury High School	Shrewsbury

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