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| Judging Criteria |
| All essays will be judged according to the criteria listed
below. Judges will adjust their scoring based on the age and
grade level of each participant. |
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- Understanding of the issue: An outstanding essay will
demonstrate that the participant understands the topic and
how it relates to his or her life and community. The essay
should present a clear central argument.
- Originality: Participants are not expected to conduct
research for this essay. However, we do encourage participants
to ask community members, parents, guardians, mentors, teachers,
doctors, nurses, or other health care professionals for
input. We expect participants not to simply repeat the ideas
they hear from other sources—essays should display
the participant's ability to thoughtfully construct an argument
and develop his or her own ideas.
- Clarity and effectiveness of style and organization: Essays
should be grammatically correct and accurate in terms of
spelling and word usage. Essays should present information
in a clear and logical manner.
- Adherence to format and length rules: Essays must be no
longer than 350 words for participants ages 9-12 years and
no longer than 500 words for participants ages 13-16. The
essays must be typed in the provided format. All essays
must be submitted with a completed official entry form.
- The participant's name,
age, grade, and region in which he or she lives must only
be on the top of the COVER page on which the personal information
is typed. The ESSAY pages will carry the child's unique
ID number only. Please do not insert the child's name or
any personal information on the essay sheets as they will
be grounds for disqualification.
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| From the field of medicine |
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| Contest Chairperson |
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Dr. (Mrs) Kamala Krishnaswamy, an M.D. in
Internal Medicine, Former Director, National Institute of Nutrition
(ICMR), Hyderabad, India has been engaged in nutrition research
for more than three decades.
Her excellent contributions in the fields of clinical nutrition
and cancer studies have elevated her to the ranks of some outstanding
nutrition scientists of the world today. She has published around
240 original research articles in several national and international
journals of repute and has edited books and contributed chapters
to several books.
Under her chairmanship, the dietary guidelines for Indians was
prepared which is widely circulated and used by all concerned.
In recognition of her contributions she has been bestowed with
a string of awards and honors. Noteworthy among them are ‘Shakuntala
Amir Chand Prize of ICMR, Dr.V.N.Patwardhan Prize in Nutritional
Sciences of ICMR, Dr.Kamala Menon Medical Research Award in
the Field of Internal Medicine of ICMR, Shakuntala Dasgupta
Oration The Physiological society, Glaxo Oration of NAMS, Chopra
oration of IPS, BC Guha Memorial Oration of Indian Academy of
Sciences, Sita Mahalakshmi Memorial Oration of AP Academy of
Sciences, Basant Devi Amirchand Prize of ICMR, and S.G.Srikantia
Memorial Lecture Award of Nutrition Society of India, ASTC-Eminent
Women Scientist Award-2004, ‘Certificate of Excellence’
awarded by Indian Medical Association on World Woman’s
Day Celebrations on 12th March 2005, Dr.Rajammal.P.Devadas Annual
Oration Award-2005 of Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore.
She was honoured as Fellow of Indian National Science Academy,
Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Medical Sciences,
National Academy of Sciences, National Agricultural Academy
of Sciences, AP Akademi of Sciences, International Union of
Nutritional Sciences and Third World Academy of Sciences.
Dr.Kamala Krishnaswamy served as an Expert in several National
and International Scientific Bodies. She was a member of the
Task Force of WHO and was on the Sub-Committee of International
Union of Nutritional Sciences. She is on the Editorial Board
of various National and International Journals. She is currently
on advisory board of several Scientific Committees and industries
and on the governing body of Nutrition foundation of India,
New Delhi.
She is currently the President of The Nutrition Society of India,
and is emeritus Medical Scientist of Indian Council of Medical
Research for 3 years. |
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 Dr
Sunita Maheshwari is a pediatric cardiologist who did
her training at Osmania Medical College and then at the Yale
University School of Medicine in the U.S, where she won the
?Young Clinician Award' from the American Heart Association
and the ?Best Teacher Award'. She is currently the Head of Department
at Narayana Hrudayalaya in Bangalore. She also runs a trust
fund called People4people
that puts up playgrounds for poorer children in Karnataka. In
addition she helps run a telemedicine company called Teleradiology
Solutions. She is a doctor, entrepreneur and a socially
active human being. |
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| Dr Raju Khubchandani is a consultant pediatrician
at Jaslok and Breach Candy Hospitals in Mumbai. He trained at
TN Medical College and BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai and has been
a visiting fellow and professor at leading hospitals in the
U.K and U.S. With his special interest in asthma, Raju is widely
recognized for framing the Indian Academy of Pediatrics guidelines
on Asthma management in children. He currently runs the Pediatric
Rheumatology clinic at Jaslok Hospital where he has established
“JAS,” an arthritis support group. Raju also serves
on the board of St
JUDES an NGO that provides shelter to children seeking treament
for chronic diseases in Mumbai. |
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| From the media |
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 Mr.
Pranay Gupte is a veteran international journalist,
editor, author, and media consultant. He writes for Portfolio,
Institutional Investor, and other major international publications
such as YaleGlobal – the online magazine of the Yale University
Center for the Study of Globalization - and PostGlobal, the
Web site of The Washington Post.
Mr. Gupte writes exclusive reports on the Middle East, India-US
relations, geopolitics and investment for the American and
international business communities. He also co-authors books
with major world figures and CEO's, the most recent of which,
"Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed," by
Robert L. Dilenschneider, was published by McGraw-Hill internationally.
An economics and political-science graduate of Brandeis University
in the United States, he also attended the Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism. Mr. Gupte was a staff reporter
and a foreign correspondent at The New York Times for 15 years.
Mr. Gupte has served as a media consultant for several institutions
and commissions, including the United Nations, the World Bank,
and the Brundtland Commission on Environment and Sustainable
Development. He was the prime force behind the establishment
of a private foundation in support of the 1992 Earth Summit
in Rio de Janeiro. He has moderated and appeared in panels
at the World Economic Forum's Davos and regional meetings,
Columbia University, the Asia Society, and other institutions.
Mr. Gupte has written for many widely known magazines, including
The Atlantic, Forbes, People, Reader's Digest, The New York
Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, and the Harvard
International Review.
Mr. Gupte's personal Web site is www.pranaygupte.com |
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 Amrita
Ganguly-Salian is the Editor of Disney Adventures
Magazine (India). An alumnus of Lady Shri Ram College (Delhi)
and Symbiosis Institute of Media Communications (Pune), she
has researched magazine readership/publishing in the UK, US
and India. Since 2000, she has headed various print assignments
like The Times Journal of Photography, Femina Book of Interiors;
and before joining Disney Adventures, she was the Editor
for BBC Good Homes (India). She feels her various interests
were fanned by the brilliant environment of her school (Sacred
Heart, Jamshedpur) and so she wants to bring her professional
expertise into classrooms all over the country by motivating
children to find the best within themselves. As a mother and
a photography teacher, she is fascinated by the worldview of
children and thinks the yummiest part about her current position
is that she gets to interact with kids and share the "Fun-structive"
(fun + constructive) mantra of her magazine with them.
She can be contacted on: disney@infomediaindia.com,
http://www.disney.in/disneyadventures/
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| From academia |
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| Contest Moderator |
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 Dr
Amrita Dass, an eminent educationist, is the Founder-Director
of ICS
International which has a global presence. She pioneered
the career counseling and guidance services in India.
Dr Dass is a member of the Board of Directors of some leading
schools in India. She has conducted many Leadership Programmes
for educationists, eduleaders and corporate executives.
Dr Dass has served as a Member of the Steering Committee
on Women and Child Development of the Planning Commission
of India. She has also been a speaker at many U.N. Summits,
State of the World Forum, U.S.A. and Global Knowledge Partnership
(GKPII) Conference, Malaysia among others.
Dr. Dass is recipient of the Lions Club Award for outstanding
Social Work and the Rotary Award for Vocational Excellence.
She has recently been felicitated as a “Woman Achiever”
by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). |
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 Mrs.
Jyotsna Brar is the Principal of Welhams Girls' School,
Dehradun. She was also the Founder Principal of Rajmata Krishna
Kumari Girls' Public School, Jodhpur, from 1992-99.
As a teacher of Geography, English Language and Literature
for the past 25 years, she has an enviable teaching record.
She believes that students deserve not ‘right answers’
but ‘real answers’.
Mrs. Brar has been a member of the Standing Committee on
Examinations, Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations,
New Delhi since 2002. Her major contribution to this effort
has been the rationalization of the syllabus for Environmental
Education. She has also given several valuable inputs for
upgrading the syllabus for English.
She has been an advisor to the Union Public Service Commission
of India in 2005. |
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 Mr.
John Mason is a renowned educationist who has served
the Indian education system for forty two years. He was the
Headmaster of The Doon School and St. James School, Kolkata
and also served as Vice-Principal of La Martiniere College,
Kolkata.
He has the distinction of being the Principal of The Modern
High School in Dubai and later Head of Asian Schools (South
Asia and Middle East), Global Education Management Systems
where he managed a number of schools of the group in the UAE.
His abiding interest in teacher education and development
led him to set up Teachers’ Centres in Dubai and at
The Doon School.
Mr. Mason is associated with a number of schools as Educational
Advisor, working on curriculum development and school management.
He has written several text books on English through Oxford
University Press, including a popular Communicative English
course.
Mr. Mason is currently a member of the Council for the Indian
School Certificate Examinations. He has also been a member
of the Standing Committee on Examinations at the Council for
the Indian School Certificate Examinations. |
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 Mrs.
Devi Kar a renowned educationist is the Principal and
Secretary of Modern High School for Girls, Kolkata since April
2000.
She is also the Director and Board Member of Modern Academy
of Continuing Education (MACE), which is a unit of the Modern
High School, conducting several teacher training programs,
in conjunction with the University of Calcutta.
She has been in the field of education since 1969, as a teacher
and administrator at La Martiniere for Girls, Kolkata. Owing
to her pioneering work in the field of global education, the
Modern High School for Girls was presented with the International
School Award in 2005.
Mrs. Kar has served on the Scholarship Panel of Mahindra
& Mahindra (India) as well as the Ford Foundation (USA).
In addition to her various teaching and administrative responsibilities,
she is also a contributing writer for the educational sections
of several leading Indian newspapers and magazines, besides,
authoring textbooks in history for secondary school students. |
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 Mrs.
Meera Isaac is the Principal of the prestigious Cathedral
& John Connon School in Mumbai. She has over three decades
of rich experience in the educational sector. Besides her love
for English as a subject, her areas of interest include elocution,
creative writing debating and dramatics.
An eminent educationist and winner of the National Award
for Teachers, Mrs. Isaacs also has the distinction of being
a Member of the Standing Committee on Examination and also
that of the Executive Committee of the Council for the Indian
School Certificate Examinations.
Mrs. Isaacs credo as an educationist is to put the child
as the focus of all educational activities so that he/she
may grow into an assured and confident person who is able
to evolve strategies and skills to deal with the ever changing
environment. If he/she is able to do this, it naturally follows
that the joy of life will be his/hers. |
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 Ms.
Leena Aparajit is Advisor and Consultant to The Scindia
School, Gwalior. She began her career as a corporate executive
but gave it up as she found her métier in education.
For a number of years she taught Physics, Math and English to
students of the Secondary and Senior Secondary School at St
Thomas’ Dehradun and Sacred Heart School, Dalhousie.
Ms. Aparajit has the distinction of being the founding Head
of the Senior School of The Shri Ram School, Gurgaon, which
in a short span of a time acquired a formidable reputation,
as a leader in educational thought.
Ms. Aparajit has also worked as the Education Director of
Scholars International Group in Dubai. Her mandate was to
begin from ground zero and set up an A level British curriculum
school in the UAE.
Her passion in life is education. She continues to work in
this area sharing the vast competencies that she has acquired
over the years. |
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 Mrs.
Farida Abraham is the Principal of La Martiniere Girls
College, Lucknow, India.
She has been instrumental in introducing new subjects such
as Environmental Science and Computer Applications. Mrs. Abraham
is also very keen that the children develop strong social
and community values and much work has been done to this end
by the school in the fields of Environment and Wildlife Conservation.
La Martiniere College also has a very active Social Work
Unit - Gandhi Corner, which has been equally involved in community
building and social causes. |
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Ms. Rekha Krishnan is the Head of Vasant
Valley Senior School, New Delhi. She is an eminent educationist
with a masters degree in History and the Science of Education.
An able administrator, she has had the opportunity of teaching
as well as managing school affairs in various capacities over
the last two decades in some of the finest educational institutions
of the country like Modern High School, Kolkatta and La Martiniere
Boys School, Kolkatta.
School-Leadership has always been close to Ms. Krishnan's
heart. She has at all times striven to build and provide an
effective leadership framework for holistic improvement of
the school ecosystem and student outcome. Besides teaching
History, her mission in life is to ensure that she along with
her team of teachers help in creating an environment where
each child learns and reaches his/her zone of proximal development. |
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 Mrs.
Mary Roy, Founder-Principal, Pallikoodam School, Kottayam
Mrs. Mary Roy, an eminent educator and women's rights activist,
is the Founder-Principal of the Pallikoodam School (formerly
Corpus Christi High School) at Kottayam.
Mrs. Roy’s objective for setting up the school was
to make learning a fun process and to free the students from
the bondage of the exam system. Mrs. Roy is a firm believer
that the learning ability of a child is awakened in his or
her own language first, which leads to improved grasping power.
According to her, in the first four years a child should use
the mother tongue as the language of play, study and communication.
Under the inspirational leadership of Mrs. Roy, the school
has partnered with various organizations including Greenpeace,
EXNORA, and several NGOs for various projects. The school
has also been involved in relief efforts in the wake of natural
disasters and calamities.The school has been a subject of
a documentary by Doordarshan entitled "Mary Roy and Corpus
Christi". In 2006, the school won the 'TCS IT Wiz trophy'.
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