On 5th November 2016, five students took part in the annual Psych-Socio fest Mosaic 2016 Patterns of Life organized by Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram. The judges on the occasion were Dr. Monalisa Palit, clinical psychologist; Pankhuri Aggarwal, research assistant at the National Institute for Public Finance and Policy; among others. This competition comprised of four events. One student represented our School in each of the events, except the quiz where two students were expected to participate.
The events were, Pick-a-click, in which the participants had to present self-clicked photographs relating to the discipline of Psychology and Sociology. Vatsala Bannerjee of class XI-D represented The Indian School in this event and lifted the first prize.
[gallery link="file"]Simultaneously, there were other events taking place at different venues. One of them was Showcase, in which the participants of different schools were divided into six groups. Each group was presented with a video clip to be analysed. Shivali Anand of XII-C participated in this event from our School. She was shown the advertisement of Ebay with the tagline, Thousands of things that dont judge! on which she spoke very well.
The event which provided a platform to budding artists was Canvas, in which the participants were assigned topics. They had to visualise a painting on the topic. Aanchal Juneja, XII-C represented our School in this event. Awards were given for the best two paintings.
The event named Mind Games was the most interesting. Two students from each school were required to take part in the event. This event consisted of stages. In the preliminary round, a quiz was conducted on general topics like mythology, history and sociology. Ritwik Arora and Aayushi Sharma, XII-C represented our School. Of 35 schools, 8 made it to the final round. There were 25 questions in the final written round and the participants had to answer them within a time limit of 5 minutes.
Since the competition was conducted by the Psychology and Sociology department of the host school, all the events revolved around these two areas. Apart from Vatsala Bannerjee winning the first prize in the Pick-a-click event, the cumulative scores of all the participants made it possible for The Indian School to bag the Rolling Trophy of Mosaic 2016-17.
Ms. Enakshi Rai.
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