The Hindu in School speed reading contest

February 27, 2014 11:15 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 08:23 pm IST - HYDERABAD:

More than 150 students participated in ‘The Hindu in School Speed Reading Contest’ organised by The Hindu for NIE-enrolled students on Wednesday.

Sponsored by Roots, an international school of business and management, the event was held in junior (classes 6 to 9) and senior (classes 10 to 12) categories. The contest included numerical calculators, Word Search and Passage reading with questions to be completed within specified time. Ms. Jyothi Raja was the judge and Ms. Vanitha Jaiswal of Roots was the chief guest. The top two prizes in the senior section went to Jasmine Sandhu and Udbhav Rastogi respectively of Army Public school, R.K. Puram. In the juniors section, the first prize was bagged by Amina Mohammed of Focus High School, while the second and third prizes went to P. Pooja of Shantiniketan Vidyalaya, Shamirpet, and K. Namitha of The Mother’s Integral School, Nallakunta, respectively. Consolation prizes went to Awantika Yash, Nikhil.V and A. Jayanth.

Lotus Chocolates and Lotus Milk products were the co-sponsors.

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