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| New England Shirdi Sai Parivaar (NESSP) Conducts Its 1st Ever Annual Kids Academic Competition |
Kodukulla Suryanarayana
12/19/2012
New England Shirdi Sai Parivaar (NESSP) conducted its 1st ever Annual Kids Academic Competition on Saturday Dec. 15th at Sai Community Center 290, Littleton Road, Chelmsford, MA. The aim of this event was to inspire and encourage our children to participate in various competitions which help them to excel and succeed in their chosen endeavors.
This event provided opportunity for young children and youth to practice and participate in various academic competitions like Chess, Vocabulary bee, Geography bee and Essay Writing. The unique value proposition of the event is “Charity towards the communityâ€. NESSP requested the participants to donate clothes, shoes, nonperishable food etc. towards the participation fees. All the goods collected from the donation will be distributed to needy people through our partner organizations like Lowell Homeless shelter, Youth villages, Cradle to Crayons etc. Over 150 children participated in the whole day activities. Highlight of the event was seminar by Sri Anil Saigal on PREPARING FOR COLLEGE ADMISSIONS. The seminar is geared towards providing information on how to prepare for college admissions and better understand the whole process. More than hundred parents actively participated in the seminar. This was very useful for all the parents and students in middle/high school. Sri Anil Saigal spoke for about 1 hour and followed by another hour of Q&A session. Many parents requested to conduct these seminars on regular basis which will help other parents and students who could not make it to this session. We got lot of positive feedback from the participants and parents. Here are a couple of quotes:
“Hearty congratulations to all the NESSP volunteers who worked tirelessly in seeing this event come through. It is yet another feather in NESSP's cap.†- Shridhar Mysore
“It was a excellent program and also well - coordinated efforts by NESSP. Thanks to NESSP to giving this great opportunity for all kids to deliver their skills.†– Ramesh
“Thank you for organizing the entire day's events with such rhythmic precision. Expectations were exceeded, in the first hour itself, when the schedule got started off, right "on schedule". Advait enjoyed participating in the event, as much as practicing for it.
My humble suggestion is to carry on your good work, by making such events / practice sessions, a regular feature. Specifically - form a “Chess league†and have the kids meet regularly.†– Nagendranath
NESSP arranged a Bus trip to MIT for our Vsanskar students on Sunday Dec 16th. Dr. Vipul Chitaila of vSanskar and NESSP Teacher volunteers took students to different MIT departments and explained them about the same which generated lot of learning interest in the students. Sai Temple presenting vSansakar for KIDS educational journey and the first batch Course Started on 9th September 2012. This Unique program offered for the first time in the New England area in an audio-visual, interactive format for the holistic global development of today’s youth. The mission to create a learning environment for our youth that will strengthen their social & career development skills, and provide moral and spiritual grounding with the objective of building their creativity, personality and values to make them into well-rounded individuals.
Winners of the Kids Academic Competitions are:
Level 1 Chess Winner - Advay Goel
Runner Up - Prateek Motagi
Level 2 Chess Winner - Bill Senapathi
Runner Up - Sriharshith Pedda
Level 3 Chess Winner - Sri Nuvvula
Runner Up - Shanmukha Srinivasan
Level 1 Geography Bee Winner - Aishwarya Ramesh
Runner Up - Prateek Motagi
Level 2 Geography Bee Winner - Adhvika Arunkumar
Runner Up - Rohan Mallu
Level 3 Geography Bee Winner - Sreyas Yennampelli
Runner Up - Shreya Challa
Level 1 Vocabulary Bee Winner - Ranjana Ramesh
Runner Up - Aishwarya Ramesh
Level 2 Vocabulary Bee Winner - Richa Juvekar
Runner Up - Ritvik Karthik
Level 3 Vocabulary Bee Winner - Shreya Challa
Runner Up - Pranav Abbott
Essay Writing Winner - Nanditha Kasireddy
Runner Up - Rohit Bandaru
NESSP was founded in August 2006 based on Shri Shirdi Sai’s doctrine of “Love, Dedication, Devotion, Equality, Faith, Replica Watches and Patience†as a volunteer-driven, nonprofit organization with a vision to Build permanent Shri Shirdi Sai Temple in New England and facilitate services to devotees. 1st ever Shirdi Sai Temple was established in New England area on Dutta Jayanthi day in 2007 by NESSP. Our mission is to promote the philosophy of Shri Shirdi Sai Baba and to support religious, spiritual, cultural, educational and charitable activities in New England.
Upcoming Events :
Dec 29th – Sri Sai Temple 5th Anniversary Celebrations & Dutta Jayanti
Dec 31st – New Year Eve – Temple will be open till Mid-Night
Jan 1st New Year Day – Temple will be open all day
More details are available at the temple website: www.nessp.org.
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