Senior School Events Detail

We have many reasons to be proud of our students. As they continue to participate in different activities, they stand true to their school motto “dare to be wise sincere and constant.”  

A) A five-member team of St. Columba’s participated in Model United Nation (DAV): Training today's students to become tomorrow's leaders, and won accolades by winning the High Commendation Award! 

Following were the team members:
1.    Madhav Sachdeva    11-A
2.     Sidharth Jain            11-A
3.     Dhruv Vij                   11-A
4.     Om Sareen               11-A
5.     Dhruv Mishra            11-A

B) Piano notes are black and white, but they sound like a million colours of your mind.

Steve Alexander of class 12-E succeeded the Grade 8 classical piano exam conducted by ABRSM (Associated Board of Royal School of Music), UK at the age of 14. Recently, he has passed another Grade 8 contemporary piano exam conducted by Rock School, UK with a distinction. In addition to this, he has also scored the highest marks in North India and has been invited to perform in the Rock School Virtual High Achievers 2021 Session's Concert.

He has become the youngest child in the country to attain double Grade 8 in piano music. He has been also holding eight distinctions in his musical career since the age of 5 till date.

Recognizing his outstanding achievements, The Australian Institute of Music, Melbourne has come forward to offer him a guaranteed scholarship to pursue his Bachelors of Music in Piano Performance soon after Class 12.

C) Joe Mathew of class XI-C participated in a piano scholarship event that required its participants to play a piece of their choice, gracefully and perfectly.

D) Gokul G of class XI-C participated in the 'iCan - Festival of Expressions', an event organised by Nehru World School in collaboration with Cambridge University Press. He prepared a three-minute long video on the topic ‘What can I do for my country’ to lucidly explain how we can make a difference. It presented an idea of how each of us could do little deeds that can eventually revolutionize society for the good — how we can save water equivalent to 7 Lakes in just a year. Further information about this event can be found from this link: https://www.nehruworldschool.com/ican

E) Dhruv Ghoshal of 12-D participated in the online Interschool Western Music Competition named “Crescendo2021” organized by Amity International School on 28th July 2021 and secured 3rd position in the ‘Instrumental Solo – Piano’ category among 53 other schools in Delhi.

F) Aadi Nagi of class XII-B participated in the ‘Crescendo 2021’ hosted by Amity International School, a music competition where more than 40 schools participated and he achieved 3rd position in the acoustic guitar category. Not only this, but he also came third in “Festivista 2021” organised by our school.

G) The Champa Devinder Dhingra Sports Trust has encouraged sports talent in our school and has given merit scholarships to some of our students in order for them to excel and achieve higher proficiency levels in the sport of their own choosing.

This trust proposes three to four scholarships of Rs.20,000 each, every year commencing from the current year 2021-2022. The school had selected eligible students for this scholarship using appropriate methods. We are really proud of these Columbas.

H) St. Columba's School announced the launch of the RAJIVE CHANDRA MEMORIAL AWARD and the RAJIVE CHANDRA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP in memory of Mr. Rajive Chandra, an alumnus of the class of 1972. He was a brilliant student of his 1972 ISC batch at St. Columba's, and was among the National Scholarship Winners of that year. He was a voracious reader and had a special passion and talent for writing. He also won an All India Inter College Essay competition. While he was at IIT Bombay, he was the Editor of the IIT monthly newspaper Technik' for 3 years. 

An essay writing competition was conducted by the Department of English of the senior school on 20th July 2021 to choose the most creative student as the true recipient of this award. The competition was open to all the students of classes 11 and 12 and the students were given different topics beforehand to prepare themselves for this competition. Students wrote and presented their thoughts over different topics in a highly imaginative way.  Shambhava Sood (12-D) was declared the winner of this competition with Jaigopal Longani (11-C) and Ansh Gupta (12-A) securing the second and third positions, respectively. The topics shared with the students to write on were – 

1. Instant coffee and instant work are a deadly combination.
2. My new normal is to continually get used to new normals.
3. If you could invite any three people for dinner (living or dead), who would they be and why?
4. What if Donald Bradman played in 2021? What if Serena Williams was born in 1950? What if Cristiano Ronaldo was Indian? Take any of these sports champions and create a new story for them, in a different era and in different circumstances.

(I) A few members of the Debating Society participated in a Debate competition organised by CJM, school. Hemang Nagpal of class XI-A received the best interjector award.