The Grammy’s-For the Inventure Music Buffs.........

The Grammy’s. The most exciting Award Show of 2010! We were even more excited since there were New artists who joined the Music Industry.
Beyonce won a total of six awards breaking the record for most wins by a female artist in one night. Artists such as Colbie Caillat, Eminem, Kanye West, Lady GaGa, Maxwell, A.R Rahman, Rihanna and Jason Mraz won two awards.
Taylor Swift won four, while Black eyed Peas, Jay-Z and Kings of Leon won three.
Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless’ was awarded Album of the year.All in all watching the Grammy's was a lot of fun.

Sanjali Menon &Sumreen Sandhu,
Grade 8
Media Pod

TISB Interschool Tournament-Tennis

Recently our school participated in the TISB tennis tournament under 15 tennis tournament, our teams placed second in the boys category davis cup and third in the girls category Davis cup. The boys team consisted of Nischil, Adil, Martin, and Tanish, and the girls team consisted of Alisha, Namrata, and Valerie These are amazing results considering our players are at least two to three years younger than the competition. For those of you who aren't familiar with the davis cup format, it is fairly similar to standard tennis, the same rules apply, the difference is that the players are divided into squads of four, and each team must win one singles match, and one doubles match against the opponents to advance to the next round, however if the team loses either the doubles or the singles match they must play a singles match again called the reverse singles. Our boys team did very well by coming second, they beat National public school (Rajajinagar) without having to play the reverse singles, the same for TISB, they only had to play a reverse singles against Sarla Birla academy because they lost the doubles. After this they came on top of their pool and had to play against Delhi public school in which they lost, however they played very well with the points nearly always coming to deuce (tie). Our girls team did quite well as well, they reached third with points scored over Canadian International School and Delhi public school. Oddly enough they lost against Canadian winning the singles, and losing the doubles and reverse singles, they scored points with the singles win, and were on an equal footing with Delhi Public School south , however DPS did not show up for their face off with our school, presumably because they were too scared. This gave our team one point and they secured third place. The icing on the cake would definitely be Adil's win of best player, he is just 9 years old, and it is usually from the ranks of the winning team that this award is presented to, but he played so well that he justified the organizers giving him this prestigious award. well done to all those who participated they all performed very well and have made Inventure proud.

Suman Sridharan,
Editor(Sports)
Media Pod

Intel Young Innovators Programme at Inventure Academy

Nooraine Fazal

As India moves to a more knowledge based, globalised, and urbanized economy it faces unprecedented challenges for education achievement.

While India is uniquely poised to take advantage of this increasingly interconnected, open and collaborative world, given its “demographic dividend” (relatively young and growing population) and limited infrastructure (opportunity to leap frog to the 21st century without worrying about legacy systems) much depends on whether it can provide its youth with the education required to capitalize on this.

Educational institutions, such as Inventure Academy are increasingly expected to keep up with the demands for change and at the same time face intense pressure to reinforce traditional practices, be conservative and leave no child behind.

The fact is “We can not prepare students for a world which existed 21 years ago; we don’t know what the world will look like in 21 years time when a child born in 2010 graduates from college; what we do know for sure about the future is that there will be constant change”

There is a growing concern (highlighted further by the success of movies such as the “3 idiots”!) that school going students in India are very focused on getting high marks to secure admissions to higher education institutions (where they can look forward to more of the same, if they do indeed manage to secure a place).

Students, and the larger community in India and globally (given one out seven people world wide is an Indian!) would benefit considerably if students are instead / in addition, encouraged to make independent informed choices about what they want to do when they grow up and equipped to contribute effectively to socio-economic development by innovating, creating jobs and wealth.

This makes the need for a change / fundamental shift in our education system absolutely critical.

Given Intel’s tremendous success with initiatives such as the Intel Open University Network, Inventure Academy and the rest of the K-12 learning community look forward to continue collaborating with Intel to reap dividends that all of us could have only dreamt about in the past! For more on specific details on the programs please refer to reports from my colleagues on ……

Click here to view Intel Programme for Grades 9,10&11.

Click here to view the report on the Intel Lab Visit.

Nooraine Fazal
Managing Trustee & Head of School
Inventure Academy

Workshop on Book Reading By Ms.Roopa Pai

A report – book reading by Ms. Roopa Pai, author of “ Taranauts and the quest for the Shyne Emerald".

Roopa came, captivated and conquered the minds of the young readers of grade 3 and 4 with her magic in story telling. She entered the world of the little ones and created a space for herself by speaking their language.
Imagination is the spark that sets off the creative impulses in a reader’s mind and that’s what Roopa used as her “mantra” to play with the fantasies of the children. Their journey to the world of “ Taranauts, the quest for the Shyn Emeralds” was a mystical one and Roopa spun an interconnected web of imagination to stretch and weave the children’s own fantasies.



Shika Roy,
Educator,
Inventure Academy

Breaking News:Inventure Students secure high ranks in International Math Olympiad and National Science Olympiad

International Math Olympiad:

*Aditya Parekh of Grade 6B has secured 265th Rank at the International Level and has topped at the School Level in the International Math Olympiad.


*Nihaal George of Grade 6A has secured 266th Rank at the International Level and 2nd Rank at the School Level in the same examination.


National Science Olympiad:

Nihaal George has added icing to the cake by securing the 382nd National Rank at the National Science Olympiad. He has topped at the School Level.

Our Hearty Congratulations to Nihaal and Aditya.You both have brought accolades to Inventure.We are proud of you!