S. N. Trusts Central School bags Academic Pentathlon trophy

Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thripunithura, is runner-up; St. Michael’s English School, Kannur, in third position

The winners of The Hindu Academic Pentathlon, S.N. Trusts Central School, Kollam, and runners-up Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thripunithura, with the chief guest, District Collector K. Mohammed Saifirulla, and Jaison, consultant, Vignan University, in Kochi on Tuesday.

S.N. Trusts Central School, Kollam, won the finals of the Academic Pentathlon, earning 93.5 points in the competitions held here on Tuesday. The Academic Pentathlon is a competition of aptitude in mathematics, physics, chemistry, elocution in English and fine arts (music and dance).

The 10-member team of S.N. Trusts Central School, comprising Gayathri B., Uma D. Santhosh, Maanas P. K., Sreelekshmi K., S. Sameem, Akshay Ajay, Vishnu Dinakar Jith, Malavika R. Thilak, Hridya H., and Monisha Anil, won comfortably by winning their challenges in a combination of quiz, elocution and fine arts.

The runners-up were Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Thripunithura. Hari Ganesh, Anand K. S., Amal K. R., Megha V. Mahadevan, Jayakrishnan K., Parvathy Anil, Aparna S. Nair, Shreya M. P., Vishnu Chandrasekharan, and C. S. Saraswathy were part of the team that scored 84 points.

The third place went to St. Michael’s English School, Kannur, with 70.5 points.

District Collector K. Mohammed Y. Safirulla, who was the chief guest on the occasion, gave away the prizes to the winning teams. Mr. Safirulla said that fine arts, along with academics, played an important role in a student’s overall development. Instead of being just book worms, students needed to develop interests in various activities, he said.

Eighty students from eight teams participated in the finals held at Oberon Mall, Edappally.

The final was held in two sessions. The team from S.N. Trusts had also emerged top scorer in the preliminary round in which four schools were selected for the final round.

The finalists were selected from the regional rounds held in Kozhikode, Kannur, Kollam, Alappuzha and Kochi.

N. Soorya Prakash, senior manager, circulation, The Hindu , Chennai, was the quiz master of the event. Judges for the events were K.T. Thilakarajan, lecturer, RLV College of Music and Fine Arts, for music; Anupama Anu Thampi for dance; Dr. Latha Nair R., associate professor, Department of English and Centre for Research, St. Teresa's College, and Dr. Lekshmi Devi Menon, former associate professor, English, St. Teresa's College, for elocution.

Akshay, Uma, Hridya, and Monisha from S.N. Trusts said that participating in the event was enjoyable. The regional round of the quiz was easy, but the final rounds were tough, said Akshay.

The event was organised by The Hindu Future India Club in association with Vignan University. The venue partner was Oberon Mall.