On 1st September 2010, DPS R.K. Puram hosted the 9th Dhruv Rajgarhia Memorial Interschool Debate. Instituted by Dhruv’s grandfather, Mr. K.L. Rajgarhia in his memory, it provides a platform for keen debaters to express their views on global issues. Dhruv Rajgarhia, a former student of the school, was an avid debater and much loved by students and teachers alike.

The Principal, Dr. D.R. Saini welcomed all the participants from across the city. The judges for the event were Mrs. Deepa Raghavan, former Vice Principal of DPS R.K. Puram, Mrs. Sonia Khan, a graduate of Trinity College of London who trains speakers, directs plays and is passionate about music; and Ms.Nandini Sircar. who works as a production editor with SAGE publications.

The motion before the house was “Empowered, the power of the Youth can eradicate Corruption. “ The event saw students of prestigious schools put forth their points of view. The competition saw DPS R.K.Puram emerge as overall winners with Nayan Banerjee winning Best Speaker followed by Sudarshana Datta of DPS R.K. Puram and 
Ragav Chawla of DPS Indirapuram. Milind of D.P.S. Indirapuram was adjudged the Best Interjector. The Rolling trophy, however was passed on to Springdales School, Dhaula Kuan. Lakshay Bhardwaj of Hill Grove Public School won the Jury’s Award.

The event was a treat for all keen debaters and an inspiration for many.

The winners at the Annual Dhruv Rajgarhia Memorial Interschool Debate at DPS R.K.Puram	The Dhruv Rajgarhia Memorial Interschool Debate at DPS R.K.Puram

The National Talent Search Examination (NTSE) is a national level scholarship programme in India to identify and nurture talented students. It is orgainsed by an official body (NCERT) and is widely regarded as the most prestigious examination at the high school level in the country.

Out of the fifty two National Talent Science Examination 2009 – 2010 scholarship holders in Delhi, thirteen of the awardees are students of DPS RK Puram.

NTSE Scholarship awardees with Parents, Principal and Teachers.

SHANTANU CHHABRA	SADHIKA GULATI	PUSHKAR MISHRA	KUNAL KAPILA	DHRUV RAJ CHAUDHARY	BHAVYE MITTAL	BHAVYA MADAN
ARNEISH PRATEEK	ANUBHAV GUPTA	ANKUSH PHULIA	AKSHIT TYAGI	AKSHIT KUMAR	AAYAN KUMAR

Reporting Time: 07:00 am
Examination Timings:
Classes VI to VIII [07:45 am to 10:30 am]
Classes IX-X [07:15 am to 10:30 am & till 10:45 for Science and Maths]
Classes XI-XII [07:15 am to 10:30 am]
Reading Time: 15 Minutes
Self Study Time in Examination Room: Classes VI to VIII [07:00 am to 07:30 am]

During the examination days i.e. from 16th September 2010 to 30th September 2010, school buses will ply at the usual timings in the morning and at 11:15 am after the exam.

EDGE 2010 was held on 27th-28th August, 2010 at Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Ashok Vihar. The individual results are as follows:

Senior Quiz (Runners Up)

• Vaibhav Bhatla
• Aditya Somani

JAM and Group Discussion (Runners Up)

• Aishwarya Kane

Exun Clan bagged the OVERALL TROPHY for the Third Consecutive Year at Silico Battles 2010, held on 25th-27th August 2010 at Ahlcon Public School, Mayur Vihar. The individual results are as follows:

G-Sym (Winners)

• Varnika Chawla
• Dhananjay Goel
• Sobhagya Jose

Programming in JavaScript (Winners)

• Bhuwan Khattar
• Diwank Tomer

Flash Presentation (Winners)

• Rishabh Marya
• Pratham Agarwal

DJ Mixing (Winners)

• Adideva Sekhri
• Rohan Nagpal

Senior Quiz (Winners)

• Tanay Padhi
• Dhananjay Goel

Digital Imaging (Runners Up)

• Shubham Goel
• Pratham Agarwal

Web Presentation (Runners Up)

• Bhuwan Khattar
• Varun Dubey

Programming in VB  (Runners Up)

• Rishabh Marya
• Ishan Sharma

Junior Programming  (Runners Up)

• Mohit Sharma
• Ambar Pal

Software Display  (2nd Runners Up)

• Diwank Tomer

Programming in JavaScript (2nd Runners Up)

• Ishan Sharma
• Barun Patra

Gaming (2nd Runners Up)

• Mayank Sharma
• Shardendu Gautam

The Exun Clan bagged the overall trophy at Code Wars 2010, held on 26th-27th August 2010, at Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj. The following are the individual results of the participants :

Senior Quiz (Winners)

• Aditya Jain
• Rohan Nagpal

Crossword (Winners)

• Aditya Jain
• Rohan Nagpal

Crossword (Runners Up)

• Vishesh Kumar
• Aditya Grover

nCrypton (Winners)

• Aditya Jain
• Vishesh Kumar

Senior Programming (Runners Up)

• Karanveer Mohan
• Sakshi Gupta

Powerpoint Presentation (Runners Up)

• Shagun Goel
• Keshav Makker

Web Designing (Second Runners Up)

• Varun Dubey
• Rishabh Marya

Junior Quiz (Second Runners Up)

• Vidur Butalia
• Pratul Tandon

Techathlon (Winners)

• Team event
• Special mention to Pragya Chopra in XII-D

Exun Clan bagged the OVERALL TROPHY at Matrix Ecomm 2010, held on 20th August 2010 at Mount. St. Mary’s School. The following are the individual results :

Quiz (Winners)

• Aditya Jain
• Vidur Butalia
• Sarthak Kunthia
• Nayan Aggarwal

Gaming (Winners)

• Mayank Sharma
• Shardendu Gautam
• Anmol Vashisht
• Varun Dubey
• Akshay Jain

Synchronous Event

• Shubham Goel (Best Image Editor)  <Achal Verma’s contribution is duly acknowledged>
• Pratham Aggarwal (Best Post Production)

Minefields (Runners Up)

• Pratham Aggarwal
• Varun Dubey
• Adideva Sekhri
• Aditya Somani

Minet 2010 Inter School Computer Symposium was held on 14 August 2010 at Mothers International School, Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi.

Exun Team – OVERALL Winners (Got the Trophy back again)
Web Designing  - Winner

• Ishaan Sharma  (Ishaan went solo for this event. Immense respect)

Powerpoint Presentation – Winners

• Shagun Goel
• Keshav Makker

Quiz – Winners

• Rohan Nagpal
• Aditya Jain

Surprise Event

• Karanveer Mohan - Winner
• Aditya Jain - Runner Up

Programming – Runners Up

• Sakshi Gupta
• Karanveer Mohan

Group Discussion – Runner Up

• Aishwarya Kane

Gaming – Runner Up

• Mayank Sharma

(A Scientific Club that serves humanity)

Founding Date
13.07.2010

Founding Principle
Building and challenging Scientific Minds, where Chemistry and Biology
become interesting and purposeful

Approving authority

• IPA (The Indian Pharmaceutical Association) &
• DR. D.R. Saini., Principal DPS. R.K.Puram

Club Constitution
Proposed Student body: Founder & President, Vice President, General Secretary, Treasurer, Members

Faculty body
Mr. Prem Dhawan, Ms Mamta Sharma, Ms Prema Pandey

Objectives of the club

1. Ensure approval and continuous support of the IPA (Indian Pharmaceutical Association)
2. Spread the awareness of Pharmacy, its scope and future for high school students at DPS, R.K.Puram. Detailed information about course studies, stream of choice and scope of employment.
3. Celebrate ”Pharmacy Day“ annually and invite members from the IPA, Drug control authorities, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical journals, Pharmacy colleges and universities in India and abroad as guest speakers. Encourage students to take up scientific journalism and post articles for printing in the Pharma media worldwide.
4. Organise plant visits to Pharmaceutical units in India and abroad in order to get a firsthand experience of the state of the art technology involved in pharmaceuticals and its allied industries.
5. During Plant visits get an experience of the application of Physics, Maths and Chemistry in Manufacturing Pharmaceutical dosage forms and Biotechnology products. Experience analysis of compounds with latest technologies and interact with a team of scientists involved in Research and Development of new dosage forms.
6. Motivate Pharmaceutical companies to grant students summer internships and scholarships.
   Integrate the Pre Pharmacy Club with the Pharmacy colleges in India and overseas thereby facilitating placement of students.
7. Develop a website for the club with the assistance of the Department of Computer Sciences headed by Mr. Mukesh Kumar and integrate it with clubs overseas especially in the United States of America, U.K. and Canada.

Highlights:

• Sanction of Rs 200,000 from patrons to be disbursed annually as Internship awards and Scholarships.
• Summer internships from Pharmaceutical Companies have been approved.

Founder Member and Student Coordinator:

• Jannat Saini, XII-C (Batch of 2010-2011) – Email: jannat_saini@hotmail.com

Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram and its Junior Schools (DPS Vasant Vihar and DPS East of Kailash) will remain closed on Monday, 05-July-2010 for teachers and students.

Weekly Test for classes 6 to 10, which was scheduled for Monday, 05-July-2010 will now be held on Tuesday, 06-July-2010.

Class 12 Assessment Exam scheduled to be held on Monday, 05-July-2010 will now be held on Thursday, 08-July-2010.

Note: School will remain open for Administrative Staff and Class 4 Staff

Seating Plan w.e.f July 1, 2010

Reporting Time: 06:50 am
Examination Time: 07:15 am – Reading time 07:30 am to 09:00 am Written Paper

The school will re-open for class XI for External as well as Internal students on Monday, 12th July 2010.

School Timing: 06:50 am to 12:50 pm
School Uniform: Summer Uniform*

*Boys:
White Half Sleeves T Shirts with Collar and School Monogram (available in the School Uniform Shop)
White Trousers (available in the School Uniform Shop)
Black Shoes with Laces (available in the School Uniform Shop)
White Socks (available in the School Uniform Shop)
Bottle Green Belt (available in the School Uniform Shop)

*Girls:
White Half Sleeves T Shirts with Collar and School Monogram (available in the School Uniform Shop)
White Pleted Skirt Knee Length/White Divided Skirt Knee Length (available in the School Uniform Shop)
Black Shoes with Laces (available in the School Uniform Shop)
White Socks (available in the School Uniform Shop)
Bottle Green Belt (available in the School Uniform Shop)

Nayan Banerjee of Class XII U won the prize for ‘Best Speaker’ in the Extempore Turncoat Debate held at GD Goenka, Vasant Kunj. The debate was part of the ‘2nd Gayatri Devi Goenka Meorial Cultural Festival ‘Goeankan Grandeur 2010-11’ held from 28th April – 30th April 2010. Twelve schools participated in the debate. Each participant was given one minute to prepare on a topic and then had to speak one minute for and one minute against the motion.

80 students from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka are in Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram to attend a youth camp organised by the Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi from 22.05.2010 till 28.05.2010.

What do they all have in common? The love for Germany and the German language. They learn German in Colombo, Dhaka, Kabul, Durg, Jammu as also Chennai, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi NCR.

So what do they do in the camp? They speak in German with each other, watch movies and attend German language classes. There are also workshops in the camp. The themes are – Painting, Music, Web-quests and Quizzes on Germany. In their leisure time, they take part in sports, go shopping and get to know Delhi.

The Camp is being organized within the framework of the PASCH Initiative.

The goal of the camp is to establish a connection between German learners from different countries and to strengthen their love for Germany and the German language.

The Head of the Language Department of the Goethe-Institute Max Mueller Bhavan, Mr. Eberhard Weller, inaugurated the Camp. Dr.D.R. Saini, Principal, DPS, R.K. Puram and Mrs. Renu Mittal, Director, DPS Society were present at the inauguration.

The Camp is the outcome of the long-term cooperation between Goethe-Institute Max Mueller Bhavan and the Delhi Public School Society. The Chairman of the DPS Society, Mr. Ashok Chandra, has extended his support for the Camp.

The ThinkQuest Project Learning Institute, organized by the Oracle Education Foundation was  held at Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram from 18 – 21 May 2010. ThinkQuest is a protected, online  learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom  curricula and students to develop 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where   teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students  participate in technology contests; the award-winning ThinkQuest Library, a learning resource  visited by millions; and a professional development program for educators. Read more…

Schedule:

May 24-May 28: Java+Game Programming(8hr/day)[8.00am-4.30pm]

Web Design+Advanced Web Design(4hr/day)[1.00pm-5.00pm]

May 31-June 4: Advanced Java(8hr/day)[8.00am-4.30pm]

Android(8hr/day)[8.00am-4.30pm]

Web Design+Advanced Web Design(4hr/day)[8.00am-12.00pm]

June 7-June 11: Java+Game Programming(4hr/day)[8.00am-12.00pm]

Computer Animation+Graphic Design(4hr/day)[8.00am-12.00pm]

June 14-June 18: Java+Game Programming(4hr/day)[8.00am-12.00pm]

Computer Animation+Graphic Design(4hr/day)[8.00am-12.00pm]

Registered Participants:

Note: Any additions will be updated in the list. Please contact campk12.dps@gmail.com in case of any query.