The Doon School, Dehradun (TDS) has signed an agreement with the MCC Cricket Academy, London, under which school boys from across India can receive MCC cricket coaching at a camp in TDS on January 25-29. œThe MCC Academy will provide pupils with the very best coaching and technical analysis while developing team building and leadership skills. School coaches will also be provided with training and the drill. This training academy is part of the ongoing training relationship that TDS has with MCC, says Dr. Peter McLaughlin, headmaster of TDS. œWe are delighted to be returning to The Doon School with the MCC Lord™s Club India Cricket Academy in January 2015. We hope this lays the foundation for regular camps during the course of the year, says Simon Reid of the MCC Lord™s Club India. For further registration and details, visit www.doonschool.com/mcc2015 Resonance STaRT-2015 The final stage (Stage-II) of the talent search exam STaRT-2015 conducted by Resonance Eduventures Pvt. Ltd (estb.2001), the well-known Kota-based test prep company (IIT-JEE, AIPMT, AIEEE) which has 13 learning centres countrywide, was successfully completed on December 14. STaRT (Scholarship, Talent and Reward Test) is an aptitude-cum-benchmarking test for class V-XII students countrywide. Toppers are awarded rewards, recognition and scholarships. Over 23,000 students who were selected in stage-II appeared for final stage evaluation in 60 Resonance centres across the country. This pan-India annual event is conducted in two stages and more than 1.85 lakh students were evaluated in stage-I, of whom 23,000 were selected for stage-II. Abid Husain, chief coordinator of STaRT-2015, says the Top 100 students in each class V-XII will be invited for the Champions™ Camp to be conducted on January 15-16 in Kota, during which the expert faculty team of Resonance will brief them about preparing for competitive exams. The two-day event will be followed by a felicitation function on January 18, at which prizes valued at Rs.1 crore will be awarded to winning students. Students securing #1 All India Rank (AIR) in each class will be conferred a gold medal and nine-day trip to NASA, USA. AIR #2 students will be awarded silver medals and a seven-day Europe (CERN) trip and AIR #3 students will be awarded bronze medals and a six-day Singapore excursion. AIR #4 & 5 students will win branded laptops while AIR #6-10 hi-end tablet PCs. A total of 2,400 prizes valued at Rs.1 crore will be distributed and around 6,000 deserving students will be given awards/scholarships valued at Rs.5 crore. Global cooperation appeal Following a terrorist attack on the Army Public School, Peshawar (Pakistan) in which Taliban terrorists gunned down 132 children and nine staff members, 11 students of City Montessori School, Gomti Nagar, Campus I, representing 50,000 students of CMS schools in Lucknow, called a press conference in Lucknow on December 17. œThe time has come to form a World Government, a World Parliament and a World Court of Justice, they said. Addressing the press conference, Dr. Jagdish Gandhi, founder-chairman of CMS ” the largest single city primary-secondary…
