Winners Announced

Kuwait – 31 January 2010:  The Kuwait Kerala Muslim Association (KKMA) today announced the winners of the KKMA-Tiffany grand final drawing contest held for students of Indian schools in Kuwait.  The winners were chosen based on a grading matrix and announced in three categories of Excellent, Merit and Recognition awards from each category respectively. 

At a tough contest participated by 1000 final contestants, the United Indian School bagged the highest number of points by winning 11 awards out of total 56 and thus earning 39 points.  The Indian Educational School (IES) emerged as the runner up by gaining seven awards with 28 points, whereas the Carmel School of Kuwait became 3rd in the row with 5 winners and 15 points.

The Contest dubbed as ‘World Peace: KKMA-Tiffany Painting Contest’ was conducted under the kind patronage of Mr. Ajai Malhotra, His Excellency the Ambassador of India to Kuwait for promoting a culture of nonviolence and peace among young children by raising awareness about these concepts.

The competition was open to all students of Indian Schools in Kuwait and divided into four categories - Primary School (Class 1 to IV), Upper Primary School (Class V to VII), Secondary School (Class VIII to Class X), and Senior Secondary School (Class XI and Class XII). 

A press release from KKMA stated that a total number of 3000 entries were received during the first phase of the contest held in July-October 2009.  Children’s from 18 Indian schools in Kuwait participated in the contest.  The contest was held in two phases.  In Phase 1, each of the entrants was requested to submit one piece of drawing which responds to the theme, World Peace.  A judging panel then reviewed all entries and 1000 semi-finalists were selected to advance to phase two final competitions on 15 January 2010. 

All final art works were reviewed by a judging panel headed by Artist Srinivasan who commented saying that the KKMA drawing contest was such a huge success not only because of the plenty of wonderful works the officials received, but because of several positive commentaries from the parents.  Nevertheless, the judges and the officials of the KKMA opined that the children should be given more such opportunities to participate in theme based drawing contests for nurturing their creativity and imagination as most of the children tries to copy what they were taught by their art teachers or recreating previously learned symbol set that has been memorized.

The list below shows the details of winners in each category of award in an alphabetical order and not on any ranking within each award group.

EXCELLENT AWARD

Category 1: Primary School (Class I to IV):  GOUTHAM SURESH (Indian Community School Kuwait – ICSK Amman), GRIFFIN GEORGE PUTHENPURAYIL (Indian Community School Kuwait - ICSK – Khaitan), MALAVIKA VIDHUGOPAN (Carmel School Kuwait), NANDAKRISHNAN MUKUNDAN (Indian Educational School – IES), SHAWN ANNA SAJAN (United Indian School).

Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):  AAWANI JAYAPRAKASH (Indian Educational School – IES), ABITHA GEORGE THOMAS (Indian Educational School – IES), GAVIN GEORGE (Indian Community School Kuwait – ICSK Khaitan), LAVANYA LILLY GEORGE (Gulf Indian School), SIBIL SARA SEN (United Indian School).

Category 3:  Secondary School (Class VIII to X): AISWARYA BALAGOPAL (United Indian School), DIVYA MAHADEVAN (Indian Educational School – IES), M H S GULZAR AHMED (Indian Central School), TESSA SUSAN JOHN (United Indian School), VIVEK UNNIKRISHNAN (Indian Community School Kuwait – ICSK Amman).

Category 4: Senior Secondary School (Class XI and XII):  None qualified for Excellent Award in this category.

MERIT AWARD

Category 1: Primary School (Class I to IV):  AYMAN TANVEER PALOJI (Indian English Academy School – IEAS), GAYATRI DEVI (United Indian School), ISRA M.D  SHALIM (Integrated Indian School), MOHAMMED EMON (Indian Public School), RICHA ABRAHAM (Carmel School Kuwait).

Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):  ADITYA JAYPAL (Indian Educational School - IES), ARJUN NARAYANAN KUTTY (Indian Community School, ICSK Senior), FLENCY THANKACHAN (Indian Community School - ICSK Khaitan), HANAN ABDULLA  (Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS), KRUPA ANN MATHEW (United Indian School), RESHMA ABRAHAM (Carmel School of Kuwait), VINAYAK UNNIKRISHNAN (Indian Community School - ICSK Amman).

Category 3: Secondary School (Class VIII to X):  FIONA SUNNY KURIAN (United Indian School), GRESHMA LIZ GEORGE (Indian Central School), MUHAMMAD MANSAF KHAN (Indian Community School - ICSK Senior), PRATYUSH.V (Indian Educational School (IES), REHANA MAHFUZ  (Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS).

Category 4: Senior Secondary School (Class XI and XII):  NLUBAINA WAHID ALI (United Indian School), MARIYAM BEGUM (United Indian School), RASEL AHMMED (Indian Central School).

RECOGNITION AWARD

Category 1: Primary School (Class I to IV):  ABDUL SALAM (Integrated Indian School), ABHINAYA SRINIVASAN (Indian Educational School - IES), CHETAN RAJESH (Gulf Indian School), JOEL SAJU (India International School), MALVIKA KRISHNA. K (Integrated Indian School), MEGHA CHANDRAN (India International School)MOHAMMED RUSHDI (Integrated Indian School).

Category 2: Upper Primary (Class IV to VII):  JULIA ROSE PANIKULAM (Gulf Indian School), NADIYA NUR FAIZA (Jabriya Indian School), NETRA RADHAKRISHNAN (United Indian School), RANLI WARANGANA LIYANAGE (Carmel School Kuwait), SEBASTIYAN AHILAN (Al Rashid Indian School), SHAMID KHAN SULTAN (Kuwait Indian School), SHAYAN IQBAL (Kuwait Indian School).

Category 3: Secondary School (Class VIII to X):  AFIA M PATHAN (United Indian School), GOLDAN NIVETHITHA (Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS), KAMAR AYMAN AL YOUNIS (Al Amal Indian School), KEVIN PONNACHAN (Indian Central School), NEHAL AMIT JAJAL (Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS).

Category 4: Senior Secondary School (Class XI and XII):  IMMANUEL AMRITA RHEMA (Fahaheel Al Watanieh Indian Private School - FAIPS), SHOBHA SAM ATTUPURATH (Carmel School Kuwait).

In addition, all finalist participants will be awarded with qualifying certificates. 

An Award ceremony to honor winners and participants will be held on 12 February 2010 at Indian Community School, ICSK Khaitan at 6:00 PM.

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