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APL Global School’s e-magazine SnapShot September 2013 BONUS ISSUE! ES Issue 7 BYT SYNERGY Special edition of SnapShot in HOT NEWS HEF’S NEW! ORNER Reading C e Tr Th ee DOES LEGALISING BETTING All time favourite, ALWAYS SOLVE THE ISSUE? Potpourri Check out the debate in - presents you with some mouth watering recipes! APL school band: Going Places with Mauve ‘N’ Lime CONTENTS 1. EDITORIAL 1 6. OPEN BOAT 9. TEACHERSPEAK Blue Umbrella 15 - Spectrum of Education II 29 2. READERS’ RESPONSE 2 - The Airport 15 Conference at Istanbul - Death is the end 16 3. HOT NEWS - Lighting up our Minds 30 Announcing Results 3-4 - Artwork 17-18 - Synergy Special 5 - Photo Corner 19-21 10. EXPRESSIONS 4. VOICE 7. JUNIOR CORNER UNLIMITED Eureka Indeed! Breaking the Ice 31 6 Stationery Corner 22 - Opinion 7 - Down by the Bay 22 - Art of Working 31 - Heart to heart with an aspiring leader 8 - I Fly 23 - Enterprise Club 32 - Does legalising betting always solve 9 - My Friend 24 - Our Dance Journey 32 the issue? - My Favourite Cartoon - Know your Ancestors 32 Character 25 5. WINDOW - Fascinating Experiments 33 - Artwork 26 Going places with Mauve ‘N’ Lime 10 - Fun with Words 33 8. POTPOURRI - Good Citizenship - From the Reading Tree 11 - Keeping up with the Times 12 Chef’s Corner 27 Programme 34-35 - Happiness with Tots 13 - Jest for Fun 28 11. PARENTSPEAK 36 - Top 10 Tunes 14 EDITORIAL A very warm welcome to another edition of SnapShot! As you are all well aware, we have started this new academic year with great zeal and enthusiasm. I’m very pleased to intro- duce you to the various flavours of our very own magazine. Once again, this edition has all your favourite corners including ‘Junior Corner’ and my very own favourite - ‘Open Boat’. I’m sure you will enjoy going through the excellent shots taken by our soon-to-be-eminent photographers. Look into the section ‘Window’ where you will see how our own school band Mauve ‘N’ Lime came into action to rock your world! Don’t miss out on the Top Ten Tunes put together by our passionate music students. When you read through the ‘Expressions Unlimited’ section you can feel our students’ joy put into words about their various club activities. Discover delicious recipes and catch hold of some funny lines in the ‘Potpourri’ section. Uncover some of our juniors’ favourite cartoon characters and the reasons they like them. Do not forget to check out our ‘Hot News’ section which is bubbling with exciting happenings. We also have a fascinating interview with Ms. Asha which you will find in the ‘TeacherSpeak’ section. As you all know, you are most welcome to share your thoughts and suggestions. Our Snapshot team values your constructive feedback. Have an awesome year ahead! Renyta Grade 9 Editorial Team: Disclaimer: Content: Ayesha, Renyta, Sara, Varshita, Nikhil Madhavan, We acknowledge that some of the images used are from the internet, Rahul Hari, Amritha and Varshini Suresh modied to suit our educational magazine and not intended for any Layout and Design: Kavya (Alumnus), Tanya, Amritha & Varshini Suresh commercial purposes. 1 READERS’ RESPONSE Through SnapShot the students are able to explore dierent ideas and ways of thinking. They are SnapShot seems to have been put particularly motivated to see their together with a lot of thought and I nd SnapShot a really good idea. It’s stories on the school website. planning. I like the ow of the topics well-designed, and provides a medium for Good work! and the layout. Some of the articles are students to showcase their talents and voice quite well written. It is especially sur- their opinions. I liked the Campus Bound arti- A. Zafar Ahmed Kandrikar Grade 12 prising to see young people write with cle, and I would love to see more college-re- such clarity of thought. lated material in future issues; that would be particularly helpful for the older students. The Reading through SnapShot al-al photo gallery is great, especially the sculp- I would like to commend the photog- ways gets me excited, because ture and concert photography! raphers, for their varied subjects, and it’s like watching a video of all Sangitha their selection of theme. The treatment Grade 11 the recent events of APL. It’s a of photographs shows me the amount colourful and interesting world of talent of the students. of its own. I love the Voice, Before applying for work, I was surng the Opinion and Potpourri sections. The whole magazine has got a play- internet to learn about the school and hap- Also the TeacherSpeak and Par- ful feel to it, which makes reading it a pened to come across last year’s SnapShot. entSpeak sections give me a lot rather joyful aair. It was really useful because I got more of valuable tips. information from SnapShot than I got from The way the questions have been all other sources. The photo gallery in the last posed in the TeacherSpeak section edition looks awesome and speaks of a journalistic bent of mind I was able to understand the temperament looking at it actually made me in the students. Very nice way to get of the school and the events that happen feel that moment! I’m a student information in a concise manner! here throughout the year. The magazine is who is far from science but the very well designed, the information is well Dazzling Science section got Siddharth Chandrasekhar organized and formatted. It summarises a me very interested. I just wish A Reader huge set of data colourfully. I would like to there would be a section where congratulate the students for such good the students talk about or com- work. ment on current aairs. Bala Iyengar Dance Teacher Oshin Grade 12 2 HOT Announcing Results! NEWSNEWS Elections 2013 CIE May-June 2013 IGCSE level A* Chemistry A* Chemistry A* History A* Computer Studies A* Mathematics A* Economics A* Physics A* ICT A Economics A* Mathematics Priya A Foreign Lang. Spanish Abhishek A* Physics Varatharajan Dash SCHOOL PUPIL LEADER ASSISTANT SCHOOL PUPIL LEADER A* Chemistry A* Chemistry A* Bus. Studies A* Computer Studies Shriniketh Bharadwaj D. Sai Praveen A* English A* English A* Physics A* Biology A Biology A* Mathematics Shivesh A Foreign Lang. French Nivasini A* Add. Mathematics Ravichandran A Mathematics Ananthakrishnan A* Physics HOUSE CAPTAIN HOUSE CAPTAIN Jade Amethyst A* Chemistry A Accounting Priya Varatharajan S. Sai Sharan A* Mathematics A Business Studies A* Physics A Biology Koo Jeong Mo Ashwin Balaji Shankar SPORTS CAPTAIN SPORTS CAPTAIN Jade Amethyst A Accounting A Business Studies R. Shivesh K Santhosh Kumar A Economics A Economics Anirudh Rao S.Sai Sharan JUNIOR HOUSE CAPTAIN JUNIOR HOUSE CAPTAIN Jade Amethyst A Art & Design A Art & Design J. Joshua Sairam Sreekant Hannarae Kim Prahalad G 3 HOT CIE May-June 2013 NEWS AS Level A Level a^ Biology a^ Accounting A* Biology a^ Chemistry a^ Mathematics A* Chemistry a^ Psychology a^ Business Studies A* Physics A Psychology A Foreign lang. French Shwetha Sairam Velly Kapadia Taha Fathima Khan a^ AICT A Further Mathematics a^ Economics A Chemistry a^ Mathematics a^ Mathematics a^ Physics A Physics a^ Physics A Mathematics Shivaadith.A Suryasrinivasan Kumaravel Shriniketh Bharadwaj A Art & Design a^ Chemistry a^ Mathematics a^ Mathematics Taeun Ryu Mathura Samaram Neel Madhav Kejriwal A Biology a^ Business a^ Business Studies Studies Naomi Seraphina Nash Sakshi V Amritha Suresh A Mathematics a^ Art & Design Congratulations to all! Vignesh Balaji Saravana Ko Joon Ho 4 HOT NNEWSEWS BYTES SYNERGY A warm welcome from our MD, Mrs. Gita Jagannathan August in Chennai ushers in a season of festivals that enrich our lives and foster community ties. At APL, Synergy sees our entire school community slip into the best practices of Indian hospitality. We aim to create a festive ambience that sets the stage for all participants to re- alize their potential in various fields through healthy competition. We hope the food, games and host performances reflect the warmth and affection we extend to every Synergy visitor. It is an honour to play host to all the young talents from Chennai and Thanjavur. Click here to view Synergy Bytes, our SnapShot special edition. 5 Eureka Indeed! “Eureka! Eureka!” screamed Archimedes when he discovered the buoyancy property of water. It was indeed an extraordinary piece of discovery. Similarly, Thomas Edison’s light bulb and electricity, Graham Bell’s telephone, Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod, are some of the greatest inventions of all time… However, it is important to consider this question “Is there anything in this world that is more ecient than the biggest gift of mankind – the brain?” To answer this, we need to take a peek at how the brain functions for the simplest of tasks such as switching on a fan! Firstly, to identify a fan, so many processes take place in our brain. Our eyes rst capture an image of the fan and send it to the brain. Our brain then refers to past experiences to recognize the fan. For example, it will identify, “It has three wings around a circle. When switched on, it will rotate and give us air”. Then our brain sends a signal to the hand to contract muscles and switch the fan on. All these steps are done in a fraction of a millisecond! That is how amazingly our brain works! Recently, scientists have creat- ed novel microchips that imitate the brain’s information processing in real time!!! They call it ‘neuromorphic chips’. “Our goal is to emulate the properties of biological neurons and synapses directly on microchips,” explains Giacomo Indiveri, a professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), of the University of Zurich.