: The Hindu In School Cello Handwriting Wizard Contest Thiruvananthapuram regional level finals, held at Christ Nagar ICSE School on Saturday, drew enthusiastic response with 444 students from 131 schools competing for top honours.
The handwriting competition was held with the aim of encouraging and recognising good handwriting skills.
The competition was held in two categories — junior and senior.
Junior category
In the junior category, the winner was Aarcha.A, a class 6 of Raja Ravi Varma Higher Secondary School in Kilimanoor. Devika.S, Class 6 of Infant Jesus School in Thankasssery, won the second place and Dasrath.S, Class 5 student of Loyola School won the third prize.
In the senior category, Dyna Jayakumar, a class 10 student of School of Good Shepherd won the first prize. Bhagya T.K., of Class 10 of NSS Public School and Kaveri.S. Giri, Class 9 student of Sarvodaya Vidyalaya won the second and third place respectively.
A total of 722 students from different schools in the Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Pathanamthitta districts took part in the preliminary round, of which 444 were selected for the final round.
The three winners from each category will participate in the national finals.
Chief Post Master General Sumathi Ravichandran was the chief guest on the occasion and gave away the prizes.
V. Jayachandran, senior faculty of the Government Fine Arts College, judged the show.
