Competitions for Children

Hi All,

First introduce my self. I'm Sreenadh, working in bangalore.

We(Me and my friends) intend to conduct a competition or quiz (what ever one may call) for the school childern including private and govt schools.

First i will tell why the idea came and the purpose of this.

We small group of people used to visit to govt schools because of our urge to understand the naunces of primary education and what ails our education sector. As part of our visits, we used to teach the childern some basic science and maths through activites and provoke them to think innovatively and career counsilling. While in our interactions with them, we observed that some of them are belittling themselves by comparing them with the better
privileged children(private school). This notion of private school childeren are intelligent and govt school childs are deprived is cause of conern.

So we got an idea to conduct a competition. What iam proposing now is not panacea but an initivative that gives them confidence that they too can compete and succeed and what really matters is determination.

The theme of competion is not to assess the intelligence or content he mugged up in school but create a platform in which every child irrespective of his economic or social background will be given a chance to compete, compete with better privileged. The idea is simply to test the fact "Every child has

intelligence and potential to excel, given the opportunity he will". For this we shall try to test keenness or observation, a measure of smartness rather than Content/information in which a better privileged has always some advantage. At the same time competition should serve to bring familiarity among students about competition and develop a general interest.

So in this regard i want comments from all of you about the idea of quiz/competition and suggestions about the different formats & content of quizzes

that meets our stated objective.

Thankyou..