The Club Festival took place for the first time yesterday, Saturday, the twenty-third of November. Everything was different, there was a festive atmosphere and there were new faces (as we had many participants from various schools who were taking part in different Student-Club driven competitions). For me, it was a particularly gratifying moment as two students who were once members of the CLICK Photography Club of the school (of which I am a member) won the first prize! It was also a great moment to have with us our own Child-Climate Activist, Ms Ridhima Pandey, a twelve-year-old from Uttarakhand who has filed a complaint at the United Nations Climate Action Summit to protest lack of government action on the climate crisis. It is most heartening to see how our young children are more concerned about climate change than we adults are! The month has incidentally seen air-pollution levels reaching alarming levels, often spiking the safe levels in Delhi NCR at times reaching ppm levels exceeding 750 points.
The whole event on the day was based on the need to protect the environment and as such the trophies were made out of recycled products and the pens were made out of recyclable paper with seeds at the end of the tube. The organizers of the event, student leaders of various clubs had also decided to do away with plastic bottles and instead use glass bottles to serve drinking water.
The high energy level of the students and their teachers was evident throughout the day and I was able to capture a few moments of these, whether it was the team at the registration desks or those who were there to provide guidance.
And the "behind the scenes" hero of the day was Sankalp Sir who has been leading the student clubs. It was a daring decision to open club-related activities to other schools. Seen in the above snap are Sankalp Sir and Ridhima's father.
Of course, Tushar managed to sound a bit formal on the Public address system, which he did rather well.
I was able to get a snap of Atmaj, a very active member of the student-club of the school and Arnav with his camera, who also happens to be my student. They were both very shy about getting their snaps taken.
There were a few stolen moments when it was possible to take a quick snap with Anoushka and Kritika.
I caught Manas and Tejas, enjoying some popcorn (of course, I helped myself to some). The squint, affected by Tejas is contrived, the Ostriche's attempt to escape from danger by poking its head into a hole in the ground. Look-you can't miss the teacher's eyes, can you?
Varun was trying to enter the room where participants had to work out the "Trolley Problem". By the time I reached the venue, the trolley had already left the station!
A couple of snaps of the soul food provided by the in-house club, the Grub-Club is shown above. The food was of course of the best kind!
It was indeed a pleasure to see Lavanay in the school after some time. He is planning to get into formal film-production.
It was a joy to take a snap of one of the most dynamic and energetic program leaders, Dr. Kevin Patrick during the award ceremony.
The happy winners of the Tasveer photography competition were Rishay and Eeshan, both of whom were once members of the CLICK photography club of the school. They were awarded their trophies and certificates by Ms Rashmi Choudhary and Mr Prasenjit Bose.
I am posting a few more snaps of the day, some more ramblings and some more vignettes. Yes, and while we were having our Club Events, a few students were preparing for a Biology CBSE Presentation in the Biology lab under Tannu Ma'am's guidance.
Veer was busy editing his story-board for the Tasveer photography contest hosted by the CLICK club. Unfortunately, his laptop hung up at the last moment and simply refused to budge! Fortunately enough the data was safe when we restarted it.
Waiting for the entries to come in, Mr Prasenjit and Ms Rashmi were in a conversation regarding the criteria for judging the entries. They were, incidentally our judges for the photography competition, and we are thankful to them for their support.
Aadya for once was busy typing something on her laptop. She probably wasn't aware of me when I took the snap - she's glad I did though!
A heated debate took place between our school and Shri Ram school. It was an interesting debate that had the intensity of an Oxford debate. In the end, it was the Shri Ram school that won the argument.
The play that came towards the end of the award ceremony was very well scripted.It kept the audience spellbound.
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