North South Foundation (NSF) is a volunteer driven non-profit organization established in 1989. The organization was established to provide scholarships to kids in India.

The NSF Scholarship program in India is designed to encourage excellence among the poor children who excel academically but need help to attend college. A scholarship of $250 will enable a student to attend one year of college. For the year 2012-2013, NSF has provided over 1000 scholarships and more than 10,000 scholarships in its lifetime.

The money for the scholarships is raised through the registration fees from the educational contests conducted in the US. The Educational Contests are designed to encourage academic excellence among Indian American children. We conduct spelling, vocabulary, math, essay writing, public speaking, brain bee and geography bees. Some of the NSF children have achieved top ranks in the Scripps National Spelling Bee, MATHCOUNTS and National Geographic Bee.

NSF has 84 chapters in the US, including 2 in Massachusetts. Over the April 6-7, 2013 weekend, NSF MA, Worcester Chapter conducted contests in Essay Writing, Geography Bee, Public Speaking, Math Bee, Spelling Bee & Vocabulary Bee at Fitchburg State University in Fitchburg, MA. Over 400 kids participated in the contests.

Dr. Narayanan Menon, Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, presided over the awards ceremony on Saturday. Dr. Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT, presided over the awards ceremony on Sunday.

The top 3 winners in each contest for the North South Foundation, Worcester Chapter Regional are listed below:

Junior Essay Writing
1st - Vasant Sundaresan     
2nd - Akash Banerjee           
3rd - Natania Lyson             

Intermediate Essay Writing
1st - Sanjna Das                  
2nd - Abhijeet Sambangi    
3rd - Rohit Kantipudi          

Senior Essay Writing
1st - Mano Sundaresan     
2nd - Anupama Balasubramanian  
3rd - Karthik Karnik                         

Junior Geography
1st - Sruthi Kurada                          
2nd - Nitish Kaza                               
3rd - Maanasa Dhavala                    

Senior Geography
1st - Sathwik Karnik                        
2nd - Suraj Rajiv                               
3rd - Ritvik Rao                                

Math Bee Level 1
1st - Tarun Iyer                                
2nd - Shriyans Sapkal                      
3rd - Abhinav Parvataneni             

Math Bee Level 2
1st - Poonam Sahoo                      
1st - Sukethram Sivakumar          
1st - Danush Chelladurai               

Math Bee Level 3
1st - Aditya Hoque                        
2nd - Sathwik Karnik                      
3rd - Atharva Kasar                       

Junior Public Speaking
1st - Alexander Naduviledam     
2nd - Trisha Kagalavadi                 
3rd - Arnav Sharma                      

Senior Public Speaking
1st - Madhumita Kaushik           
2nd - Hemma Murali                   
3rd - Anaya Tipnis                        

Junior Spelling
1st - Aditya Biswas                     
2nd - Srichakrika Gudimella       
3rd - Aditya Bachina                   

Senior Spelling
1st - Surabhi Iyer                       
2nd - Shraddha Iyer                   
3rd - Anirudh Iyer                      

Junior Vocabulary
1st - Aditya Bachina                    
2nd - Tarun Iyer                             
3rd - Ritvik Karthik                        

Intermediate Vocabulary
1st - Indumathi Prakash             
2nd - Divya Bachina                      
3rd - Surabhi Iyer                          

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