The Centre for Women’s Studies, Goa University orgainsed a Quiz for school students of classes 1 to 12 on the occasion of International Women’s Day on 8th March 2011 at the Seminar Hall of the Social Sciences Faculty Building, Goa University.
Vidya Vikas Academy had the largest number of students as participants comprising of 12 teams of 3 members each. The students were from classes 5 to 9. The preliminary round was a written round and 2 teams comprising of Julian D’Costa, Kenneth Da’Silva and Nikita Raposo and Karthika Pai Vernekar, Sailee Prabhudessai and Junaid Shaikh made it on stage for the finals. However they finished at 4th and 6th place respectively.
The quiz was very interesting and the questions framed basically focused on Women Power in the World. All the students were given participation certificates. Mr. Sarvadnya Sambari and Mrs. Shilpa Sukumaran accompanied the students and co-ordinated.