Senior Secondary School

On the 26th January, Republic day 10 students from BVM took part in the 6th speed reading competition held in the Kumararaja Muthaiah hall of Chettinad Vidyashram, R.A.Puram. The students were assessed on the basis of the time taken by them to complete the exercise. The overall prize was secured by Yalini.P who won a prize worth a total of 33,500 Rupees.

The Association of Mathematics Teachers of India (AMTI) organized the National Math Talent Competition in which Sandhya Saravanan of Class VI B secured All India 1st rank in the primary level. She received a cash prize of Rs.5000/-. Rohan Jaishankar of Class XII B secured all india 14 rank at the inter level.

1. The participants from classes IX, X, XI, and XII were taken to P.S.Sr.Sec.School, Mylapore for the Math Expo held on 10/11/2010. They participated in three events like Quiz, Chalk talk and model making.
2. Abinaya Sridhar of class XII B won the first place in the Chalk talk event.

Twenty six students of class XI & XII were taken to MCC College for the Inter school Math Competition (ENIGMA’10) held by the Dept of Mathematics of that College. It was held on Nov 23rd 2010. The students participated in events like Quiz, Sudoku, Math Sketching, Dumb-c, Model making and Puzzles. They won prizes in all the competitions. Our school was the winner of the Overall Rolling shield.

Tanmay Shankar and Nishanth Chandrasekhar of Class XII represented our school in the National Level CBSE Science Exhibition in October 2010, hosted by S.D Public School, New Delhi. Their exhibit ‘Farmville’ was adjudged as one the best amongst the chosen top twenty. They were awarded the certificate of merit and a cash award of Rs.3000.

NTSE STAGE II EXAM

Aditya Pradeep of class IX has cleared NTSE stage II involving a written examination and an interview.  He receives a scholarship of Rs.500/- per month till he completes his education.

V.Udith Krishna of class X A was placed second in the state level 'Talent Search Test' organised by THE HINDU EDUCATION PLUS and AIMS EDUCATION. He was awarded a trophy, certificate of merit and a cash prize of Rs 2500/-

Smrithi Baskar and Kavya Bhavaraju of Class VIII have been selected for a two weeks training program from 19th April to 30th April in the “Catch them young contest” conducted by Infosys Technologies Ltd. At their campus in Sholinganallur

Out of the 12 students who participated in “Yuva Sangarsh”, the Swami Vivekananda Youth Leadership Award programme, 6 students went into the quarter finals. Krutika Sri Krishna of XI- C went into the semi final and final round. Out of a total of 240 students, she was one of the ten finalists. The competition involved various rounds of extempore speaking, discussions and debates all based on the values and principles of Swami Vivekananda. The finals were conducted on December 5th. Eminent personalities such as Mr.N.Vittal of the IAS, Commandor Shekhar, Mr. Vishwanath, Director of the National Aerospace Laboratory, Bangalore judged the students based on their communication skills and values. Krutika received a certificate, set of 5 books, a wrist watch, calendar and a gold plated trophy.

The Zonal Informatics Olympiad (ZIO), conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS) in collaboration with the CBSE, was held on 5th December 2009. It is the first stage in the Indian Computing Process. 260 students were selected from the ZIO to write the Indian National Olympiad in Informatics (INOI), the second stage was held on 24th January 2010. ZIO consists of four questions based on logical reasoning. The INOI is a programming contest consisting of two questions.
The following students from our school have been selected

1. B.Saikrishna – XII A
2. S.Siddharth – XII A
3. S.Divya – XII A

Around 20 students will be selected from the INOI for the International Olympiad in Informatics Training Camp (IOITC) for which 4 students will be selected to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI).

The AMTI conducted the Regional Mathematics Olympiad on 29th of November 2009; our students won merit positions at the inter level and received cash prizes. The students are:

1. S.Siddharth of class XII A secured third position and received a cash prize of Rs.1250/-
2. B.Saikrishna of class XII A secured seventh position and received a cash prize of Rs.100/-

National Standard Examination in Physics (NSEP) is being conducted every year since 1987. More than 40,000 students at over 1200 centres, appear for this examination. This examination leads to participation in the National and International Olympiads.

Below are the students (in each subject) who are eligible for second stage of Olympiad programme.

• Astronomy
• B.Saikrishna
• G.Sethu Nachiappan
• Physics
• B.Saikrishna
• Chemistry
• J.Hamsini

These students will qualify for the Indian National Olympiad in the respective subjects to be organized by Homi Bhabha Centre of Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.

The Tamil Nadu Jawahar Children’s Association organized a state level inter-school creative Science & Arts competition from 18th July – 26th July. Diya Naresh Rao of Class IX of Bala Vidya Mandir Sr. Sec. School participated in the Creative Scientific Innovation event and was qualified for the Zonal level which was held at Trivandrum on 15th & 16th September. She is now selected for the National level which is to be held at Delhi in December 2009 for the President Bal Shree Award.