Two students from patna selected for Wizkids finals

Two Patna students were selected to represent Bihar as Asian finalists at the Horlicks Wizkids 2009, the country's largest inter-school literary and cultural fiesta.

The two students are Chitranshu Tiwary of Don Bosco Academy and Akansha Singh of Notre Dame Academy. They will go to Bangalore to participate in the final event.

Deputy CM Sushil Kumar Modi, who gave away prizes to the winners, was impressed with the talent and confidence exhibited by the children and advised schools to regularly organize debates to develop the communicative skill of the children.

Modi also advised the organizers to hold such events for the students of government schools who mainly belong to poor sections of the society. He said the students of public schools should also visit the slum areas or villages and take up the challenge to teach a few childred there.

About 5,000 students from 48 schools of Patna took part in over 30 electrifying, enjoyable and action-packed literary, art, talent and cultural events. Syed Sultan Ahmad, who anchored the programme, continued non-stop for about eight hours giving messages to the children to dream and think big. Khurshid Ahmad of Advantage Services asked students to learn time management for better utilisation of the 24 hours they have.link