Young India Challenge winners
Samyuktha R and Satheesh TR from ICSI College, Chennai won the Young India Challenge (YIC) 2016. This innovative quiz platform was open to all enterprising youngsters in India to explore their potential as a budding entrepreneurs and was organised by CL Educate and Kestone. The initial round of YIC 2016 was flagged off in August 2016. City/Regional rounds were held in September followed by the finale in November.
More than 1 lakh students from 1,000 plus colleges in 80 cities participated in this nationwide challenge.
The winners were announced recently during the the final round in November 2016 at Teen Murthi Bhawan, New Delhi.
All 6 finalists received research mentorship worth Rs 25,000 from Accendere whereas all 12 Semi-Finalists received vouchers worth Rs 5,000 from Career Launcher.
Wellness through sports
Sports education organisation EduSports (Sportzvillage Enterprise) has launched MILES, an integrated sports education platform for adolescents and youth student populations in middle-high schools and colleges. MILES is a multi-sport leadership development programme that is led and executed by students themselves. The curriculum is designed to help students develop leadership and social-emotional skills, besides improving their physical fitness using sports as a medium. This pioneering programme is currently running in Azim Premji University Bangalore, Karnataka, Universal Business School, Maharashtra and couple of leading K-12 schools in Tamil Nadu - engaging over 500 students.
MILES has a unique Learning Methodology for Leadership Development, based on Leading2Play Framework, developed by a distinguished American Psychologist, Dr. George Selleck, who is also a long-term advisor with EduSports. — TNS
