Sohum Arora std 2K - first prize in the 'Comic Award

Sohum Arora of std. 2K has won the first prize in the 'Comic Award' category, organised by the CSMVS Children’s museum under the topic ‘The values I learnt during lockdown’.

Liana Advani 4M - Homeless Street Children Project

During this ongoing covid pandemic, Liana Advani of Std 4M raised Rs 50,000 from friends and family for the “Homeless Street Children Project.” This project was started by the Church of St Andrew and St Columba in Fort, Mumbai. The money was used to buy rice, dal, sugar, note books, pens, pencils, umbrellas and vitamin C for 50 homeless street children in Mumbai.

Aisha Bhansali 4G - Crowdfunding campaign

Student of Cathedral & John Connon Junior School, Aisha Bhansali of Class 4G had run a 'crowdfunding campaign' for the NGO, 'Habitat for Humanity India'.

Habitat for Humanity is providing family essential kits -food ration and basic supplies and hygiene kits to thousands affected by Covid-19.

The link below gives more information about the campaign.

https://cathedral.ketto.org/AishaShashankBhansaliforhfhOTAxM

Class 4G - Budding Authors

Students of Cathedral & John Connon Junior School, Class 4G - Yatee Jaiswal, Amber Velloz, Garvit Sood and Jaidev Dhoot have written a book titled ' Fearless Five- Stay creative, Stay Fearless'. We support and encourage these budding authors as they find a way to express themselves through writing.

Charity work done by Tanishka Bhatia 3M

During the lockdown , Tanishka Bhatia, studying in class 3 M, wanted to do her bit by helping the poor. She thought of a creative way of raising funds for charity by designing handmade bookmarks and selling them for Rs 50/-each,. She approached her friends and family. Seeing her enthusiasm she received orders of 100 bookmarks.She painstakingly made each and every book mark herself and raised Rs.5000/-.

Tanishka donated all her proceeds to Annamrita NGO, which is one of the most active food NGOs in India. It has resolved to liberate the underprivileged children from the vicious cycle of poverty and illiteracy by serving them sanctified and nutritious mid day meals.

Garvit Sood 4 G - Speech and Debate India

After going for many rounds of fun but simultaneously intense debates, Garvit Sood of Std 4G from The Cathedral & John Connon Junior school has won the following awards in these respective debating events organised by 'Speech and Debate India'.

1. Regional Tournament:
2nd place COVID19 Video Award
3rd Place Winning Team
2nd place Movie Contest Award
5th place High Potential Award

2. National Tournament:
Honourable Mention Team Award
High Potential Award
Extemporaneous Speaker Award
Impromptu Speaker Award
Impromptu Debate Team Award

There were some important qualifier and elimination rounds which Garvit cleared before reaching the National Tournament. Garvit also won a free leadership course program.15 teams were there to compete in the National Tournament, having 4-5 team members each.

Middle School - All India Open Mathematics Scholarship Examination (IPM) Winners

Adyant Gupta (5B) has ranked first in his age category in the IPM Examination held in January 2021. He scored full marks (100/100) and has ranked 1st amongst 3626 children in his age category.

Suren Gupta (7A) has also ranked first in the IPM exam for his age category. He scored full marks (100/100) and is ranked 1st amongst 2520 children.

INSPIRE Awards MANAK Winners

3 of our students whose projects were submitted for INSPIRE awards MANAK have won and received cash prize of rs 10,000/- from the National Innovation Foundation, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.

1) Ananya Kedia Std 10
2) Arianna Jolly Std 6
3) Anshi Nanavati Std 8

Shanaya Irani - ISTSE Outstanding Performer

Our student Shanaya Irani ranked 4th in the International Level of Talent Search Exam conducted by Indian School of Talent Search (ISTSE) during the summer of 2020.

ISTSE is a scientifically designed, skill-based assessment test to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of individual students. This exam assesses the overall intellectual potential of students. It uses conceptual, multiple-choice questions which focus on measuring skills and concepts in Mathematics, Science and English including Mental & Logical Ability. After the written exam there is a 60 minutes video interview of 100 marks which ranks the top 10 candidates.

Vardaan Gupta's (3K) Effort

Vardaan Gupta (3K) saw several children on the street asking for money as lockdown restrictions started easing. He wanted to help them in some way. He hand made keychains with colourful shoe laces . He was very invested in choosing the colours, the quality, and the pricing of the supplies. He designed and made the flyer on PowerPoint and then helped pack each order.

Vardaan sold these to family and friends and received a very encouraging response. He raised Rs7,500 and donated all proceeds.

We approached Helping Hands who mentioned that there were several street families with children in need of ration support. Hearing about Vardaan’s donation, other members of Helping Hands also contributed. Helping hands teamed up with Oscar Foundation who helped identify the families and distribute the ration and toys. The organisation was able to reach 75 Street families for 2 weeks ration support and 104 children for education kits.

The students and parents of The Cathedral and John Connon School contributed Rs. 16 lakhs to Akshaya Patra.

This contribution was used for providing cooked meals and dry ration boxes to the migrant laborers, slums and other poor affected by the COVID lockdown.

Magnets made with love- an act of kindness to spread some cheer

During the lockdown our student Ahaan Lakhanpal of std 3 decided to do something to help underprivileged children in his own way. He had created handmade wooden magnets based on comic expressions. He started with a small number of 10, but the response from friends and family was so overwhelming that he eventually ended up making close to 300 of these. He sold each magnet for Rs. 50/- and in a few months had raised a sum of Rs. 15,000/-.

Unfortunately, since most of the NGOs were shut, and still are, Ahaan couldn't find a suitable avenue to donate this sum. So, when his class teacher, Miss Choksey spoke about Junior school connecting with the Children's Ward of the Wadia Hospital to gift the 300 children there a shawl, a tiffin carrier and a water bottle each, he was excited about the idea and immediately decided to donate the entire sum of Rs. 15, 000 for this cause.

World AI Competition for Youth 2020 Winners

Four of our Coding & More students' projects were selected for the World AI Competition for Youth 2020, held in Pittsburg, USA. The WAICY is a global competition that is supported by top scholars at Carnegie Mellon University and is an annual competition for children of 6 to 18 years that gives them an opportunity to participate and showcase their learning and artistic demonstrations of the technology that can make a change to the future. Due to Covid, two of our students were able to participate live on Zoom, and the other two sent their projects remotely. And it gives us immense pride to share that three of our students have won a Bronze award in the Junior and Middle School category.

• Aahana Pupala of Grade 2 qualified for the AI competition. Her project was called Whispering & Shouting and detected loud sounds and the application is to help reduce Noise Pollution.
• Ayesha Bhuwalka of Grade 3 won the Bronze award in the Junior School Category. Her project was on Identifying Endangered Birds, and the applications are in Environment Conservation.
• Sasha Pradhan & Soha Aggarwal of Grade 8 won the Bronze award in the middle school category. They worked as a team on their project on Segregating Waste. The applications are in Environmental Pollution.

Jehaan Shah participated in the Global ABRSM (Royal Schools of Music, UK) High Scorers Concert

Jehaan Shah (7C), was selected to participate in the Global ABRSM (Royal Schools of Music, UK) High Scorers Concert in September 2020.

He represented India and played his top scoring examination piece on the piano.

Jehaan was also selected to participate in the Studio Concert held by Prof. Blossom Mendonca.

He opened the concert with a Grade 7 piece by the Italian-born English composer, Muzio Clementi.

Hridya Bhatia, a student in the senior school has developed a solution to sanitise gadgets, food packets and other everyday items effectively using ultraviolet technology in a lightweight and portable box. He collaborated with a manufacturing company to help with the production and turned this idea into a reality. To promote this further, he did some digital marketing courses and some research on web designing and created a brand- UVhealthy. The brand now encompasses a wide range of products range of products well suited to both personal and professional use. He is now runs the business from home and delivers through his website https://uvhealthy.in.

Indian Navy Inter School Quiz

Three students from the Senior School, ArkajitMaity, Naivadya Bhatti and Pranav Srinivas came 3rd in the Indian Navy Inter School Quiz which was organized by INS Trata, in association with the Bombay Quiz Club on November 15, 2019 at the NM Mulla Auditorium.

A total of 78 students representing 26 schools from Mumbai participated in the preliminary screening round, of which six teams vied for top honours in the finals.

Anish Gawande - Winner of the Rhodes Scholarship

127 students from Grade 8-12 participated in the ANCQ quiz that was held in the month of August 2018. Our students have done exceptionally well in this competitive exam.

2 students have received Award of Excellence for outstanding performance.

20 students have received High Distinction (above 95%)

44 students have received Distinction (above 80%)

The prizes are as follows:

AryamanKejriwal – Std. 10 (100%)

Jayden Thandani - Std. 8 (99%)

High Distinction

Std. 8

SohilGoswami

VaruneDastur

Dev Dalmia

Yuvna Gupta

Alekha Malhotra

Tanay Mehta

PriyavalMohta

Ananya Singh

DruvVerma

Std. 9

KavyaSaraf

Heya Shah

Riyan Shah

FarhadTarapore .

Std. 10

Anya Bhatira

Sarah Chamdawala

Himnish Jain

SaanyaKedia

Std. 11

Ananay Gupta

On 1st and 2nd December, students of Cathedral and John Connon school participated in the Interschool Competition event – WE ARE THE World, hosted by the H.R. College. The Events were divided into the 4 categories. - Fine arts, Liberal arts, Informals and Cultural arts. We won in many events. The prize winners are as follows:

1. Event – Get Smart.

1st Prize – Pranav Srinivas and Naivadya Bhati.

2. Event – Gone in 60 seconds

1st prize- Aanyaa Patodia and Ananya Purushottam

3. Event- The Amazing Escape

1st prize – Darsh Doshi.

Shaurya Singhi.

Vedant Shah.

Sumer Hiremath.

4. Event - Agree to Disagree.

2nd Prize – Vedika Bajpai and Saksham Sood.

5. Event – Revive the World.

3rd Prize – Nishita Pasari.

Juhi Idnani.

Anusha Nahata.

6. Event – Megamind.

3rd Prize – Himnish Jain.

Vir Bhansali.

Shreyas Saraf.

Pranav Nag.

7. Event – You Just got Webbed.

3rd Prize - Aryaman Kejriwal.

Aryan Navani.

Aanand Patel.

Paarth Mehta.

Anaiya Kaka, a Std. 12 IBDP student has written a research paper titled “The impact of Parkinson’s Disease and Chronic Stroke on Simple Multitasking Abilities” which has been published in the Journal of Addiction Research (USA), an international peer reviewed journal.

This paper was written during her summer vacation, when she interned in the Neurorehabilitation ward at the Sir H.N Reliance Hospital under the guidance of Dr. Aashish Contractor (head of Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine).

During her interaction with the patients undergoing neuro-rehabilitation she noticed that they spoke better while sitting rather than while walking or multitasking. This led her to conduct a study and write a research paper on the correlation between Parkinson's disease or chronic stroke and simple multitasking abilities.

You can read the research paper here:

Toshin Sequeira, a final year undergraduate from the Singapore Management University’s (SMU) School of Economics, was named a Schwarzman Scholar this week. Toshin persevered in the face of stiff competition from more than 2,800 candidates from China, the United States, and around the world, to secure the coveted scholarship. He will be one of 147 Schwarzman Scholars to undertake the programme in August 2019. He will be the first from Cathedral and any Singapore university to make it.

Ranay Sah and Himnish Jain of Class X won the 3rd Prize in the Treasure Hunt event at Immaculata held in July

THE 14th EAST INDIA DEBATES HELD AT THE ASSAM VALLEY SCHOOL
Akshata Kapoor, Taera Singh, Yohann Poncha and Ayush Kumar represented the Cathedral & John Connon School at the 14th East India Debates hosted by the Assam Valley School in Tejpur from 6th to 10th September.

On 7th September two motions were debated: ‘This House believes that parents are always right’, and ‘This house believes that popular opinion should overrule expert opinion’. The team won both debates and was placed first with the highest point tally.
After winning the final debate in the preliminary round, ‘This House believes that today’s heroes are hollow’, the team qualified for the quarter finals with the highest points. In the quarter finals too, they won the debate against Maria’s Public School, debating against the motion ‘This House believes that war is the only solution to the Kashmir conundrum’.

On Sunday 9th September the team faced Maria’s Public School again, for the third time, in a challenging semi-finals where they argued for the motion ‘This House would prefer a teenage without social media’. The team won this debate too and qualified for the finals, where they faced the Royal Global School, the only other school in the competition that had not been defeated. They argued against the controversial motion ‘This House would not award for their work artists who have been found guilty of committing a crime or morally reprehensible’. Arguing on the basis of the value of art as being separate from the artist and the principle of complete rehabilitation, they won the debate and emerged the winners, bringing back a carton full of trophies after winning all six debates in the competition.

Aditya Birla World Academy – Happy Place

The Aditya Birla World Academy conducted a Mental Health festival called Happy Place for students from various schools on the 13th and 14th of October. It was an inter school competition with events circling the theme of Mental Health. Our students participated in a few events and emerged with flying colors.

Songs that feed the soul – duet singing event – Yash Bhatia and Avanti Singh placed 1st
Songs that feed the soul – solo singing event – Anuj Khare placed 1st
Stand up speak up – Extempore speech event – Taera Singh placed 1st

The Chukerbutty Debates were held at the Doon School from November 2-4, 2018, where our students came first after defeating Sri Ram School in the finals

The IB girls team from Robotics CAS club "Nutribots" were placed second in the Senior Open category at the World Robotics Olympiad, Ahmedabad.

Pranjali Goradia won the 3rd prize in the Anglo Indian Association Inter School Essay Writing Competition.

Aryan Navani and Shridhar Sinha were the winners of the Aqua Regia Inter school Quiz

Pranav Srinivas, Vir Bhansali and Naivadya Bhati are the winners of the Times NIE Fundamental Quiz 2018-19

The International Reasoning and Aptitude Olympiad 2017 was held on the 15th of December, 2017.

The participants were given class, state and international ranks. Those who have secured the class rank of 1-3 are rewarded with gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.

Those with an international rank of 1-3 receive a cheque worth Rs. 7,500/- and a trophy, while those with an international rank of 4-25 received a wrist watch.

Std. 8

Std. 9

Std. 10

Std. 11

Std. 12

More than two lakh students from all over India applied for the Times SPARK scholarship programme, which began on Teachers’ Day, 2017.

After going through grueling tests for the next 4 months the top 500-1000 students from across the nation were selected for an interview round at their regional office of the Times of India.

After the interview, 300 of the interviewees were contacted separately for the scholarship.

Pranjali Goradia and Janki Kadakia from the senior school were proud recipients of the scholarship of Rs. 2 Lakhs and the final results were printed in the Times of India on 17th March, 2018.

Nishka Yallavati’s painting is one of the 12 paintings selected for publishing in the prestigious ICS 2018 calendar for collage category. Her painting was selected after she participated in the ICS International Painting Competition held in Lucknow in October 2017. Her painting was selected from among 275 paintings from 65 schools from across India, Middle East and South Asia.

PLETHORA – an inter school art event was organized by Campion School on January 20, 2018. Four students had participated in the event of which Raabiya Moonim and Riya Suchanti won 1st Runner-up position