School scribes closely scrutinize the student leaders prior to voting



Ananya Parthasarthy



Ananya's speech was very good. She was a bit nervous in the beginning but soon got used to speaking and spoke the rest with a lot of confidence and was very calm. She spoke about her logo which was a light bulb inside the sun. She said she chose it because ‘the sun represents warmth and light and the light bulb represents great ideas, inventions and efforts’.

She said she would help the house participate in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities; she would be kind and encourage everyone to make sure no one was left out. She was very believable and she had convinced the audience.

She got a great ovation. The audience asked her some difficult questions but she answered them well. For example, when someone asked what would she do if she was Vice captain, she replied that she and the captain would work together as a great team as it was the house’s victory that was more important. I think she deserves to be elected as she came across as someone who would stand by her promises.

Ritu Alapat, 5A



Adrein Lee



Adrien appeared to be a confident candidate from the Blue House (Venturers), in my opinion second best among the Blue House candidates. He made a number of promises, the ones that I captured were

– that he would be kind to everyone

– he would give everyone a fair chance to participate in house events

– he would try to lead Blue house to victory.

He started off well and with confidence, but then lost audience interest because he just read from the paper, without making any eye contact with them. Expressions from the speech were also somewhat missing. Being one of the last few candidates to give his speech, it was but natural that the audience was tired and impatient. He could have sustained the interest of the audience by being livelier. He got almost the same number and kind of questions as the other candidates. Adrian answered all the questions extremely well.

On a scale of 1-5, I would rate Adrien’s speech at 2.5

-Abhishek Jain, 5C


Q1. Was the candidate nervous?


I could sense that Sanjana was nervous, but she did a good job by not exhibiting it. She looked quite confident and calm. She was not fiddling with anything, unlike some other candidates. In fact, she was composed. She spoke her lines very clearly and did not get stuck anywhere while making her speech.

Q2. Did the candidate convince the audience enough?

Well, her speech was very short, not giving enough points to convince the audience. So, I feel she may not have she convinced the audience enough. The audience was not looking that satisfied with her speech.

(Did he/she get an ovation or a good response?)

Sanjana didn’t get a standing ovation but many people clapped for her. When people asked her questions she gave a sensible answer. For example, when people asked her what her logo meant she had a meaningful explanation for it and said she will help everyone shoot up and shine.

- Aisha Nikita Singh, 5B



Shivam Kapila

 Shivam appeare
d confident in the beginning but failed to keep the audience’s attention as he was not very audible. He was also very reluctant to show his logo & symbol to the audience probably because he felt it wasn’t very creative.


He could not convince most of his audience he was reluctant to answer questions. His strategies to bring his house to victory were good & but he wasn’t convincing enough. He did not get much applause from the audience. He put in a fair amount of effort to campaign but could have campaigned better.

ADVAIT Rao-5A