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4 IL Stream, Carol 7 Inside NSF 2006 Review 9 12 12 Celebrating 17th year of Encouraging....13 2 What is North South Foundation 3 Highlights during 200514 4 Volunteerism at North South Foundatiion15 7 Celebrating Seventeenth Year of Individual Donors List: Dec 2004 - Nov 200518 8 How are Candidates selected for Scholarships in India20 9 A primer for spelling & Vocabulary Bee in India 10 Encouraging Excellence in Education Fundraising Events21 12 DAS - Fundraising Campaign by kids for kids22 14 NSF Scholarship Recipients In India (photos)24 16 Corporate Donors25 17 Recipients of NSF Scholarships in India –Current 18 English Workshop in India26 21 Contribution Form27 22 DAS Pledge Sheet27 23 Fiftieth Birthday Gift28 24 2005 Scholarship Sponsors for NSF-USA Champions 25 Scholarship Awards for Essay Writing30 25 Rural Math Talent Search (RMTS) in Orissa32 26 17 NSF Centers In India* Financial Highlights33 28 2005 National Winners34 29 60 NSF Chapters in USA & Canada* 2005 National Champions - Educational Contests 30 2005 Winner Bees35 33 2005 Educationals Contests - Centers36 38 Profound Thanks to all 2005 National host Committee37 39 2005 Contest Coordination Teams38 40 2005 National Finals Teams 40 NSF Patrons, Donors and Volunteers! Directory - North South Foundation-India39 41 Directory - North South Foundation-USA40 43 North South Foundation 41

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2 Marissa Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527 IL Ridge, Burr Court, Marissa 2 North South Foundation South North Celebrating 17th year of Encouraging Excellence in Education North South Foundation, USA

When North South Foundation (NSF) was established in 1989, our vision was to Ratnam Chitturi, Pres Naresh Goel Charan Surapaneni eliminate monetary barriers for meritorious children with potential to excel. Raghavendra Paturi, Dir Sandeepa Goel Teja Vangala Samit Bhattacharya, Sec Srinivasa Rao Mogallapu Consistent with this vision, the Foundation began providing scholarships in India Ramdev Jagarlamudi, Treas Sarat Puthenpura Web Development for the academically brilliant, but economically poor students in order to fund their Radhakrishna M, Co-Treas Jaya Suresh college education. The Foundation began encouraging academic excellence among Geography Core Team Nabanita Chakraborty the children of Indian-American community in the US through educational contests Home Office Sumana Sur Varsha Gajjar Ratnam Chitturi Vasantha Nagareddi Anjali Deshpande such as the spelling bee, since 1993. Over the years new contests have been 2 Marissa Ct Bharati Pastapur added, which now include vocabulary, math, geography, essay writing and brain Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Janakiram Puppala DAS Coordination Team bee. The Foundation has come a long way in the last 17 years. The following table 630-323-1966 Bharati Pastapur provides some statistics: 630-455-9008 (fax) Essay Writing Core Team Madhavi Nathan [email protected] Silali Banerjee 1994 1999 2004 2005 Sandhya Gopalan Public Relations Team India National Coordination Rama Govind Venkat Gade Committee Raja Karanam Raji Lukkoor Chapters 3 5 10 17 Raghavendra Paturi Vasavi Levendel Scholarships* 110 154 300 350 (860) 434-9381 Ramesh Rajagopalan Fund Raising Team Cumulative Scholarships 310 1,040 2,400 2,750 Ramanand Achanta Sakthi Angappamudali * - includes renewals (919) 932-1738 Workshop Team Venakt Gade Samit Bhattacharya Mirle Shivashankar Madhavi Nathan US/Canada (860) 446-1445 Madhavi Nathan Shankar Rachakonda Contests 2 2 9 14 Venkat Gade Shalini Srinivasan Chapters 16 18 46 60 (203) 254-3181 Editorial / Newsletter/ Children Participating 800 800 3,200 5,380 Madhavi Nathan IT Tech Team BeeBook/Review (978) 486-0686 Swamy Achanta Srirama Krishna Dronamraju Cumulative Participation 1,600 5,600 13,160 18,540 Kasi Paturi (847) 202-0573 Lokraj Adhikari Visweswara Rao Durga Scholarships for Champions 6 7 24 27 Pavan Petluru Mahi Akkina Pavan Kumar Petluru Cumulative Scholarships 12 43 101 128 (210) 408-0549 Venkat Ambati Subbarao M. Sumana Sur (408) 746-0702 Kishore Chavali Krishna Sandepudi Prasad Devarapalli Srinivas Karuturi It is gratifying to know that the NSF has been able to serve thousands of talented Spelling/Vocabulary Team Nandini Ganapathi Raji Lukkoor children both in India and North America. A major share of the credit goes to the Kesav Tadipatri Kamala Gopalan Swapna Jayakumar Samit Bhattacharya Sanjay Gulati Suman Mudamala thousands of dedicated volunteers, donors, and parents. We are grateful to all of Anita Gavini Sunil Idnany them. The Foundation plans to introduce public speaking as another contest in G. Krishna Rao Kodali Satya Jawahar Accounts 2006 to further improve the communication skills of Indian American children. We Mirle Shivashankar Prakash Kailasa Ramdev Jagarlamudi are getting queries to start educational contests in India. We had embarked on a Anuradha Karimikonda Radhakrishna Marreddy Math Core Team Bhargav Kondapalli Sridevi Akkina pilot spelling bee contest in Orissa for the last two years. There was also a pilot Krishniah Revuluri Muralidhar Kothapalli Radhe Puranmalka spelling bee workshop in Andhra Pradesh this year. We are looking for volunteers Dinesh Bansal Mirza Murtaza to administer contests in India. If you are or someone you know is interested, Venkat Batchu Auditor please send an e-mail to [email protected]. We see this as a great Fullerton Tax & Planning opportunity to improve the educational skills of children in India. In closing we wish to thank all stakeholders including donors, volunteers, well wishers, and Visit www.northsouth.org for list of more volunteers beneficiaries. National Team, North South Foundation

Photo Credits Front Cover: Placid waters of Merced Lake Yosemite Wilderness, California Dr. S. K. Dronamraju, Overland Park, Kansas 2 43 [email protected] Mau Chapter, UP former C.E., KEB What is North South Foundation Katihar Chapter, Bihar Mr S K Pandey Mr B N Krishna Murthy, Mr Rajeev Kumar Lalita Sadan, Nr Jeevan former Dir.Tech.Ed. Non-Profit Organization Tax ID#36-3659998 - 501(c)(3) c/o Shri Surendra P Verma Rekha Hosp Prof P S Veerabhadrappa, Officer’s Col, Mirchaibari Bye-Pass Rd, Sahadatpura Bangalore Univ 2 Marissa Court, Burr Ridge, IL 60527-6864, Ph: 630-323-1966 Katihar, Bihar 854 105 PO Mau, UP 275 101 North South Foundation is a non-profit Phone: 0645-222-9529 Phone: 0547-222-3424 Bhubaneswar Sel Comm helping the poor who excel at academics [email protected] [email protected] Mr Trilochan Dash organization established in Illinois in attend college. Donors can sponsor Mr S C Choudhury 1989. It received tax-exempt status under designated college scholarships or Liaison: Ravi Verma North East States Chapter Dr Swadhyn Patnaik the IRS Section 501(c)(3). sponsor awards in their alumni high 916-705-3261 Mr R P Handa Mr R C Tripathy [email protected] Retd. District & Sessions Mr Manaswi Sadhu school. Judge Mr Shyama Prasad Ghosh Our Mission is to promote excellence Kochi Chapter Bishnu Nagar, Ward #2 in human endeavor, to develop human Educational contests in the US are Mr K G Jagadish Sibsagar, Assam 785 640 Hyderabad Sel Committee resources, to help people achieve designed to encourage academic Saranya, Chittoor Rd Phone: 03772-223-958 Prof L V A Seshasai success regardless of religion, gender, Kochi, Kerala 682 018 [email protected] Mr. D Seetharamaiah excellence among Indo-American Phone: 0484-236-5755 Mr Ch Hanumantha Rao caste, geographic origin by giving hope children. The NSF spelling, vocabulary, [email protected] Pune Chapter Mr. C Madhusudhanrao to those who may have none. math, essay writing, public speaking and North South Foundation geography bees are conducted annually Liaison: Swapna Jayakumar c/o Office #12, Prime Jodhpur Sel Committee in two steps. Children initially participate 847-955-9788 Centre Mr Damodar Das Moondra, The Foundation is all-volunteer driven. [email protected] Bahirat Patil Chowk, Retd.C.E While organizing events, we strive to in regional contests. There are more than ( N Om Super Mkt), Model Dr N K Maheshwari, Dir, get discounts from our vendors and 60 centers in the US and Canada. Please Kolkata Chapter Colony, MSS sponsorships for our awards. These contact us if there is no regional contest Capt G S Prakash Pune, Maharashtra 411 016 Dr Nagendra Sharma, Neuro in your area. Gutta Engineers Surgeon measures keep our expenses down and 53/1 Garcha Rd, Ballygunge Maj Gen (Retd) S C N Jatar Mr A P Gaur, Staff Writer, channel donated funds more towards Kolkata, WB 700 019 Phone/Fax: 020-2447-5366 Hindustan Times helping the needy. Our overhead is five Winners of these contests are invited for Phone: 033-247-6568 (O) 942-201-6474 (C) the national finals. National top rankers 033-2422-1868 (R) [email protected] Kolkata Sel Committee percent or less. [email protected] Mr Anil Kumar Ghosh are awarded scholarships ranging from Air. Cdre (Retd) K V Rao Mr Abhijit Majumder $1,000 to $250, redeemable in the winners’ Mr Anil Kumar Ghosh Phone: 020-2586-1737 (R) Mr Kamal Kumar Mitra The Scholarship program in India is freshman year of college. 1050/1 Survey Park [email protected] Dr Apurba K Roychowdhury designed to encourage excellence Udita, Flat 07-405 Capt G S Prakash among the poor. It is targeted at Kolkata, WB 700 075 Mr. B H K Prasad Children can enter into most of the Phone: 033-2418-8768 (R) Phone: 020-2589-9333 Pune Selection Committee qualified, needy students entering contests starting from grade 1. Some anil_ghosh53 hotmail.com [email protected] Maj. Gen (Retd) S C N Jatar, college. Over 2,500 scholarships have contests are open for up to 12th grade. Mgmt Consultant been awarded to date. Our plan calls for Children are grouped by grade to Liaison: Samit Bhattacharya Trivandrum Chapter Air. Cdre (Retd) K V Rao, more than 150 new scholarships this year. 860-446-1445 Mr R Sreekumar Consultant participate in a particular contest. The [email protected] 331 Nila, Techno Park Dr A P Bhupatkar, Director, Each scholarship is $250 per student per contests help focus students’ attention Trivandrum, Kerala 695 581 IMDR year. Awards are made following strict on the PSAT and SAT exams. Brain bee Madurai Chapter Phone: 0471-270-0166 Mr M N Kachare, Advocate selection criteria based on merit and is conducted only at the national level. Mr S Ramanathan Iyer Phone: 479-346-3199 (C) Mr B H K Prasad, economic qualification. Students are 17, North St, Kalai Nagar [email protected] Consultant Madurai, TN 625 014 selected from 17 centers in India: Accomplishments of NSF Children: Phone: 0452-264-0678 (R) Liaison: Sarat Puthenpura S. R. Trust, Sister Org. Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, Many NSF children have scored top ranks [email protected] 908-464-5501 Dr N Sethuraman Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Chennai, in the Scripps National Spelling Bee over [email protected] Mr P T Sundar Hyderabad, Jamshedpur, Jodhpur, Liaison: Madhavi Nathan Madurai, TN the years. Sai Gunturi won the Scripps 978-486-0686 Bangalore Sel Committee Kanpur, Katihar, Kolkata, Madurai, Mau, Howard Championship in 2003, while madhavi@outreach- Mr G Aswathanarayana, Advisor Pune, Sibsagar and Trivandrum. These Samir Patel bagged 2nd place in 2005. Top group.com former Secretary Mr V Nagarajan centers are run by dedicated volunteers colleges in the nation have accepted Mr B L Subramanya, Gurgoan, Haryana who are committed to the noble cause of numerous NSF winners. More 42 3 importantly, these contests help Award, ‘Vishwa Jyothi’ to Rajiv North South Foundation, India children improve their communication Vinnakota in 2003 and Nipun Mehta in Dr I V Subbarao, President Liaison: Bharathi Sampangi skills, self-confidence and empower 2004. It helps to showcase human values Hyderabad Chapter Dr S V Ratnam, Chairman 650-552-9637 Prof L V A Seshasayi them to become better citizens for and academic excellence to the children Dr P V Rao, Mng. Trustee [email protected] House No. 4-7-12/59, tomorrow. of Indian American community. Mr S S Prakasa Rao, Trustee Ravidra Nagar, Nacharam Mr Ch H Rao, Secretary Bhavnagar Chapter Hyderabad, AP 500 076 Mr. C. Madhusudhanrao, Mr Bipinbhai Shah Role Model Award: The Foundation has For further information, please Phone: 040 - 2717 8439 (R) Treasurer Vikas Vartul Trust Phone: 984-908-5806 (C) awarded its inaugural Role Model contact Dr. Ratnam Chitturi at 630- Pirchalla Naka, Pirchalla [email protected] 323-1966 or [email protected] Hyderabad Main Office Bhavnagar, Gujarat 364 001 Mr. D. Seetharamaiah Phone: 0278-243-0103 (O) Liaison: Ratnam Chitturi National Coordinator 0278-252-2500 630-323-1966 Flat 103, Padmaja Parkview Apts [email protected] [email protected] 6-3-841/B Ameerpet Highlights During 2005 Hyderabad, AP 500 016 Liaison: Nainesh Shah The year 2005 saw several notable accomplishments and one sad departure. Jamshedpur Chapter Phone: 040-2340-3466 (O) 760-294-3732 Prof Ram Kumar Kakani [email protected] [email protected] • NSF had a record number of 60 Sumana Sur (CA), Meledath Govindan XLRI Campus 4,CH. Area E Residence: Jamshedpur, chapters with 10 new chapter openings (MA), Vasanthi Nagareddi (MA), Rema Flat 403, Classic Enclave Bhubaneshwar Chapter Jharkhand 831 001 during 2005; Irvine, CA; Sacramento, Govind (IL), Ramesh Rajagopalan (CT), Near Githanjali College Mr Trilochan Dash Ph: 0657-222-5506 ext Punjagutta, 504 Shahid Nagar 408/604 [email protected] CA; Jacksonville, FL; Rockford, IL; Vasavi Levendel (CA) and others for Hyderabad 500 082 Bhubaneshwar, Indianapolis, IN; Kalamazoo, MI; jumpstarting and bringing them to 040-5554-6408 (R) Orissa 751 007 Liaison: Kishore Chavali Lansing, MI; Minneapolis, MN; fruition in record time. Thanks 988-533-8959 (C) Phone: 0674-251-1056 510-742-6600 Jackson, MS and Columbia, SC. especially to Sumana and Vasavi for 943-705-1056 (C) [email protected] • Mr Ch Hanumantha Rao [email protected] Building on the success of the diligently preparing the Geography and Secretary pilot Math Bee in 2004, NSF opened Essay Writing contest material in a short Jodhpur Chapter Flat 203, Sai Laxmi Nivas Mr S C Choudhury, IRS Mr Damodar Das Moondra Math Bee for all centers in 2005. The span of time. 2-2-647/92A Central Excise Phone: 939-310-6433 (C) 201, Shiv Sunder Math Bee contest at various levels • An unprecedented 1,312 Colony, Bagh Amberpet [email protected] 42A PWD Colony Hyderabad, AP 500 013 Jodhpur, Rajasthan 342 001 attracted a record 2,100 contestants in regional rankholders and other top Phone: 944-029-6495 (C) Liaison: Sandip Dasverma 2005. Overall, the contests have seen scorers in the regional Spelling, Phone: 0291-261-7803 [email protected] 509-371-1286 [email protected] an exponential growth as a total of 5,300 Vocabulary, Math and Essay [email protected] contestants participated in the 2005 contestants were invited to the National Ahmedabad Chapter Liaison: Raghavendra Paturi Mr Sanjay Hansraj Mittal Mr. Farley North regional contests. We are indebted to Finals. The National Championship 860-434-9381 2, Vastu Flats Spelling Bee [email protected] all the new and existing regional Finals were conducted at Northwestern Nr. Sbi-Girdhar Nagar, Phone: 0671-261-9368 (O) coordinators who worked hard to make University, Evanston, IL during August Shahibag, Ahmedabad, Kanpur Chapter the regional contests successful. 5th-6th with a record attendance of 776 Gujarat 380 004 Prof. Swadheen Patnaik Prof B.V.Phani • Phone : 079-2286-7203 (R) Math Bee Assistant Professor NSF introduced Geography contestants. 079-2562-5911 (O) Phone: 0674-254-2164 (O) and Essay Writing as pilot contests in • Dr. Asok Ray of Chicago, IL Dept. Industrial & [email protected] 933-820-0720 (C) Management Engineering several regional centers. The whose vision inspired the Essay Writing [email protected] IIT, Kanpur, UP 208016 Geography contests were subdivided to contest made a very generous Liaison: Ashok Mittal Phone: 0512-259-6606 (O) [email protected] Chennai Chapter Phone: 0512-259-8657 (R) Junior (Grades 1-3) and Senior (Grades endowment that enabled the Senior 917-903-4378 Temporarily vacant 4-8) while the Essay Writing was divided Essay Writing contest at the Finals. Dr. Fax: 0512-259-7553 See Madurai chapter for [email protected] into Junior (Grades 3-5), Intermediate Ravindranath Kambhampati was very Bangalore Chapter communication Residence:H.NO: 3062 (Grades 6-8) and Senior (Grades 9-12) kind in sponsoring the first prize for five Prof G K Narayana Reddy IIT - Kanpur 622 Dr. Raj Kumar Road Liaison: Madhavi Nathan levels. The combined Geography of the contests by instituting the ‘Dr Kanpur 208016, 2nd Block, Rajaji Nagar 978-486-0686 Uttar Pradesh, India contests at the pilot centers attracted Janaki Kambhampati Memorial Bangalore, Kar 560 010 madhavi@outreach- 250 contestants while the Essay Writing Award’ in memory of his wife. Phone: 080-332-4546 group.com Liaison: Samit Bhattacharya Contest had 470 contestants. Kudos to 860-446-1445 4 41 • 2005 Contest Coordination Teams The keynote speaker at the that enabled him to generate the contest 2005 Finals was Dr. Eboo Patel, founder report that were emailed to all the test National Coordination Team Technical Support Team Math Bee Team Dr. Samit Bhattacharya Mr. Kishore Chavali Dr. Krishnaiah Revuluri and Executive Director of the Interfaith centers. All the instructional material are Mr. Venkat Gade Mr. Mahendra Akkina Dr. Sarat Puthenpura Youth Core, a Chicago-based provided to coordinators through web Ms. Madhavi Nathan Oliver Mr. Ramanand Achanta Dr. Visweswara Rao Durga international organization that brings links. As in previous years, Kesav Rao Mr. Raghavendra Paturi Mr. Prasad Devarapalli Mr. Venkat Batchu young people from different religious Tadipatri and Ratnam Chitturi took Dr. Ratnam Chitturi Mr. Muralidhar Kothapalli Ms. Sumana Sur Ms. Sumana Sur Ms. Jayasri Suresh Dr. Yadagiri Pendri communities together to build great pains to maintain and verify the Mr. Ramanand Achanta Ms. Madhavi Kailasa Mr. M S Rao understanding and cooperation in social content of the contest materials. To Mr. Kasi Prasad Paturi Ms. Vimala Nijjar Mr. Ginesh Bansali action projects. Dr. Patel was recently ensure consistency across the large Mr. Sunil Idnany named “one of thirty social visionaries number of chapters, we were able to Spelling & Vocabulary Bee Ms. Nabanita Chakraborty Essay Writing Bee Team Team Ms. Shanthalakshmi Ms. Vasavi Levendel under thirty changing the world” by reach all judges/pronouncers/ Dr. Samit Bhattacharya Paranthaman Ms. Rema Govind Utne Magazine. Dr. Patel gave a stirring volunteers across the country by Mr. Kesava Rao Tadipatri Ms. Anjali Deshpande Ms. Sandhya Shankar speech to the parents and contestants teleconferencing. Pavankumar Petluru Dr. Ratnam Chitturi Prof. Mirza Murtaza Ms. Silali Banerjee alike impressing upon the audience to of San Antonio, TX joined the contest Mr. G. Krishna Rao Kodali Ms. Teja Vangala Dr. Ramesh Rajagopalan Dr. Pavan Kumar Petluru Mr. Sivakumar Rachumalla Mr. Ramkumar Kovvali follow the twin Indian values of coordination team and helped immensely Mr. Sanjay Gulati Mr. Raja Karnam achievement and service. in the technical portion of the contests. Geography Bee Mr. Venkat Ambati • The Editor of this Review, • Lansing, MI, held a DAS Ms. Sumana Sur Mr. Prasad Thiriveedi Bee Book Editorial Team Srirama Krishna Dronamraju (KS) and fundraiser show on Aug 26 for the first Ms. Vasanthi Nagareddi Ms. Rameeta Khurana Dr. Srirama Krishna Ms. Bharati Pastapur Ms. Padma Kuruganti Dronamraju his team of volunteers, Visweswara Rao time. The Boston chapter sponsored the Ms. Janakiram Puppala Mr. Prakash Kailasa Mr. Visweswara Rao Durga Durga, Pavan Kumar Petluru, third Tristate (MA-NH-RI) Walk-a-thon. Ms. Gunavati Gandhi Dr. Pavan Kumar Petluru Subbarao M, Krishna Sandepudi, The Detroit, CT and Chicago chapters Dr. Meledath Govindan Brain Bee Dr. Subbarao M. Srinivas Karuturi, did a superb job in also held their annual Walk-a-thons. Mr. Debnil Sur Dr. Mohan K. Sapru Mr. Krishna Sandepudi • Ms. Amisha Gandhi Ms. Bhakti Nagalla Mr. Srinivas Karuturi collecting and presenting material for The Dollar-A-Square (DAS) 2005 Bee Book which was given out to program, which empowers children in 2005 National Finals Teams each National Finalist. US to help raise funds for scholarships Registration Audio/Visual • Our ever reliable admin, for poor children in India, has had a great Ipsita Satpathy Travel / Airlines Swamy Achanta Kishore Chavali and volunteer Murali amount off success as a total of $8,149 Sushant Satpathy Hemant Shah Sandhya Kamath Kothapalli were joined by Sunil Idnany was raised by 98 kids as of November Monika Jaiswal Rekha Media Manju Rupani Atchut Paturi and together, they were able to update 2005. Continuing on with the tradition Madhavi Paturi Kruti Purohit and maintain the Online registration from past years, children and Technical Venkat Atluri systems for the ever expanding universe contestants who had participated in Samit Bhattacharya Reception / Information Kasi Paturi Food Team of both Regional and Final contests. DAS program were recognized at the Rema Govind • Anita Gavini Visveswara Rao Durga Radhakrishna Marreddy The web team consisting of National Finals by Madhavi Nathan Anu Gollapudi Vijay Govind Sri Lala Jaya Suresh, Nabanita Chakraborty and Oliver, the director of the DAS program. Silpa Chukkapalli Ramanand Achanta, did a fantastic job • Shiva Vishnu Temple of Kedar Shah Publicity NSF booth in creating a user friendly web fromat Livermore, CA, has selected North South Janaki Kodali Shilpa Chukkapalli Hospitality Bharati Chukkapalli Monika Jaiswal and content for nationals. Foundation as one of 21 non-profit Sanjiv Modi Sri Lala • Congratulations to Mahendra organizations to receive their Grant-in- Manish Garg Signs and Directions Akkina on getting married in 2005! He Aid Award for 2005. Awards Ceremony Yogesh Bhargava Siva Tripuraneni • Niranjani Prabhakar spent his post wedding month Dr. Murali Gavini, the founder Facilities Web Vinitha Raghavan generating test word reports with of the educational contests and a pillar Murali Yalamanchili Ramanand Achanta Jyoti Sandsara diacritical markings online and html files of the organization has decided to retire Jaya Suresh Fahmeeda Begum to project vocabulary words on screen from the Foundation activities after more Safety, Security,Emergency Nabanita Chakraborty Madhavi Kottapalli Parent/Child Activities for the Finals. He had single-handedly than a decade of stirring service. He Vijaya Jujjavarapu worked on the technical tools earlier leaves a strong legacy behind him. 40 5 • NSF-India now has 17 chapters today. Volunteerism is like an elastic City State Coordinator Sponsor throughout the far reaches of India. The band. You only need to spare as little as Foundation plans to award 400 you can afford or extend as much as Cambridge MA Meledath Govindan AID - Boston chapter scholarships in India during 2005-06 you love to contribute. You will get the Rockville MD Murali Gavini AID - Maryland chapter Detroit MI Srinivas Gudeti Indian Grad Student Assoc @ needing $100,000 in funds. satisfaction of promoting excellence in Univ of Michigan, Dearborn education among the most impoverished Grand Rapids MI Yamuna Iyer INDIA - LINK Matching Gifts: There are many in India and children in our community Kalamazoo MI Tarun Gupta North South Foundation companies that encourage giving for in the US. Some corporations also Lansing MI Samdhya Shanker North South Foundation Minneapolis MN Shanti Godishala North South Foundation education by matching a dollar for a encourage their employees to become Rochester MN Silali Banerjee North South Foundation dollar gift to their employee volunteers by providing financial St. Louis MO Raja Rajsekharan North South Foundation contributions. This is a nice way to contribution. The Foundation received Jackson MS Sreelakshmi Maddali North South Foundation double your contributions to the such contributions from Allstate, Pfizer, Raleigh NC Satish Maroju Hindu Samaj of North carolina Greensboro NC Sarika Mohan North South Foundation Foundation. Please find out if your American Express, The Standard, JPM Manchester NH Karthi Chandra Indian Assoc of Newhampshire employer does this. The Foundation has Chase and Lucent. Edison NJ Padmamukhi Gutta Telugu Fine Arts Society received matching funds from several Mawah NJ Subba Lakshmi Marellapudi North South Foundation well-known companies including Abbot How are projects funded at the Rockland NJ Subba Lakshmi Marellapudi North South Foundation Princeton NJ Sunitha Krosuri North South Foundation Labs, BP, Cisco, Compuware, Dun & Foundation? Cherry Hill NJ Damodar Rao Gedala Jain Temple Society Broad St, Fleet Boston, Monsanto, Marlboro NJ Sangita Sancheti/Ashok Mittal North South Foundation National Semiconductor, Omgeo, Oracle, Scholarships in India: This was the first Long Island NY Brahashita Gupta Sishyaa Education Center Pitney Bowes, Pfizer, Reader’s Digest, project initiated by the Foundation in Cincinnati OH Madhava Rao Dasari Cincinnati Telugu Foundation Cleveland OH Viji Raghavan North South Foundation Reebok, Sun Micro Systems, Symphony 1989. Money is raised from major events Columbus OH Bhaskara Rudraraju North South Foundation Corporation, Tudor Investment, and such walk-a-thon and other means. Portland OR Prasanna Paralkar North South Foundation Verizon. In addition the Foundation is Money designated for this purpose is Allentown PA Raj Saraswati Hindu Temple Society grateful to all the corporate employees only used for this purpose. Harrisburg PA Beena Krishnamurthy/ Sreedharane Krishnan HARI Sunday School contributing to United Way who have Philadelphia PA Saroja Sagaram North South Foundation designated their company’s matching Educational Contests in the US: Dr. Columbia SC M. Subbarao North South Foundation gift for North South Foundation Murali Gavini began this program in Memphis TN Ravi Dasari India Association of Memphis scholarships. For further information, 1993. The expenses for conducting the Dallas T X Ananda Murthy/ Vimala DFW Hindu Temple & NetIP Houston (BAPS) T X Kanakambabu Inampudi Indian Cultural Center please call 630-323-1966. contests are covered by registration Austin TX Vasumathi Guthikonda Indian Community Center fees and local collections. The San Antonio T X Pavan Kumar Petluru India Association of San Antonio Volunteers: The Foundation is looking scholarships for the National Woodlands T X Suresh Raghavan North South Foundation for volunteers in many areas of its Champions are covered by Madison WI Srinivasa Rao Mogallapu North South Foundation endeavors. The success of any public contributions from individuals and foundation depends on its volunteers. organizations. Excess funds from It is the collective efforts of volunteers educational contests are used for 2005 Nationals Host Committee that made this Foundation what it is scholarships in India. Kasi Paturi, Convener Shivkumar Rajagopal, Coordinator, Barrington Kumar Kotlo, Coordinator, Chicago Madhu Kottapalli, Coordinator, Rockford Sushant Satpathy, Coordinator, Hinsdale Murali Yalamanchili, Coordinator, Hinsdale

6 39 2005. He is Captain of the NASA Fellows Science & Math Bowl Volunteerism at North South Foundation and PAGE Academic Bowl Teams. He is also a good artist, Ramesh and Mallika Govindan* loves to draw and his artwork has won first place in many competitions. He loves to play Tennis, Basketball, and Chess. North South Foundation (NSF) is a non- and the DAS program has increased, He is a Brown belt in Karate. He is a profit organization that provides too, with over 100 families joining the philatelist and likes playing violin. scholarships to qualified, and needy event, usually held at the Hopkinton students in India to facilitate their college State Park. With proceeds from the 2005 SENIOR ESSAY WRITING BEE WINNERS education. In order to raise funds, NSF competitions and fundraisers, the NSF organizes academic contests and annual has been successful in providing Shazeen Harunani is fifteen years old and is Walk/Bike-a-Thons for Indian American scholarships for the needy and eligible in 10th grade in Rockford, IL. children in the United States. These students in India. contests include the Spelling, Aarti Iyer is fifteen years old and is in 10th grade at John Cooper Vocabulary, Math, Geography, and The DAS program has provided many School in Houston, TX. Aarti is a World Affair Council Student Essay Writing Bees. There are age-wise bright, but poverty stricken young Ambassador and an educational columnist. regional contests for each category, and adults with a chance for new future. Our the winners from those contests then goal at the NSF is to remove their 2005 Educational Contests advance to the national finals, after financial obstacles. To do this we must NSF conducted contests this year in the following centers around USA and Canada with which a national champion is named in persuade our friends, families, and the help of coordinators and sponsors. each division. neighbors to contribute to the cause. City State Coordinator Sponsor We were surprised by how supportive At the Walk/Bike-a-Thons, children our American neighbors were. For the Calgary -Canada AL Narayana Murthy Nadella Indian Student Association @ participate in the Dollar-A-Square past several years we have been University of Calgary (DAS) program, in which they go around collecting around $400-500 dollars from Phoenix AZ Sampath Karikalan Association for India (AID) - Phoenix chapter their neighborhood requesting just our neighborhood! This year we had Los Angeles CA Nimmi Raghunathan Jain Center Of Southern CA donations to support NSF. At the Walk/ a picnic dinner at our house featuring Milpitas CA Kishore Chavali Indian Community Center Bike-a-Thons, families turn in the money Indian food. Many neighbors came and San Diego CA Anuradha Kumar Indian Student Association @ they had raised, walk or bike around the donated $25 or more! This small gesture Univ of San Diego San Ramon CA Anand Gundu Ma Ammachi Amma Center park areas, and enjoy a fun picnic in the produced enough funds ($500) to send Palo Alto CA Sumana Sur Sanskriti, Stanford University park. Through these annual fun events two under privileged Indian teenagers Bakersfield CA Kanna Meyappan India Asso. of San Joaquin Valley participants can help less fortunate to college. This year the Massachusetts Irvine CA Kumar Ramajayam North South Foundation children fulfill their dreams of college chapter collected over $7,000, enough Sacramento CA Ramesh Srinivasan North South Foundation Fort Collins CO Bharathi Mandavalli North South Foundation education. to fund scholarships for 28 children. Stamford CT Pradeep Caplash North South Foundation Hartford CT Ramesh Rajagopalan North South Foundation Our involvement in the NSF began in If you are still unsure whether to join Fort Lauderdale FL Radhika Satchidanand North South Foundation 2001 when the spelling bee was first held this organization then think, “Where Jacksonville FL Vinay Ahuja Hindu Society Atlanta GA Vasanthi Ramachandran India American Cultural in Massachusetts. There was just a would I be without a college Association spelling bee with about 20 participants education?” For more information on Hinsdale IL Murali Yelamanchili Chinmaya Mission of Chicago from the region. This year, over 200 North South Foundation or to become a Peoria IL Ravi Errabolu India Association of Peoria & contestants participated in different youth volunteer/contest participant Indian Student Association @ Bradley University levels of all the five contests. The visit: www.northsouth.org or contact us Chicago IL Kumar Kotlo North South Foundation participation in the Walk/Bike-a-Thons at [email protected]. Palatine IL Shivakumar Rajgopal North South Foundation Rockford IL Madhu Kottapalli North South Foundation * Ramesh is 14 years old and Mallika is 12 years old. Indianapolis IN Sivakumar Vavilala North South Foundation Kansas City KS Pratibha Trivedi North South Foundation New Orleans LA Palani Ponnapakam North South Foundation 38 7 Individual Donors: Dec 2004 - Nov 2005 2005 MATH BEE LEVEL 4 WINNERS $1,000 and above Veena Kannan Pascale Carayon Prasuna & Ramagopal G Malaika & Satish Kodali Geetha, Meledath Govindan th Sudha & Nav Gupta Prafulla & Harinadh Koneru Ratna Krovvidi Keshav Puranmalka is fifteen years old and is in 9 grade in Vijaya & Srinivas Jujjavarapu Uma & Vinod T Kumar Kalaiselvi & Dhanapalan N Naperville Central School in Hinsdale, IL. Keshav was placed Ravindranath Kambhampati Dudley & John Macfarlane Nivedita & Neelkant Shukla 2nd in ICTM. Keshav’s hobbies include reading. Ramana & Annapurna K Rajeev Nadkarni Shashikiran Tadas Shantha & V Kesavulu Sreelatha & Jai P Naidu Kamala & Prasad Tummala Indira & S Rao Koritala Madhuri, Srinivas Pendyala Padma & Choudari P V Bharat Kusuma is sixteen years old and Bhavani & Anil Nagalla George Pillari is in 10th grade at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Jhansi & Surya Putta Rahi Racharla $100 to 149 Academy in Chicago, IL. He enjoys playing tennis and plays Sita & U Rao Varanasi Aparna & R Ramakrishnan Lalita & Ramanand Achanta the clarinet and baseball for his school. Onkaram Basavapatruni Aparna & Ramasundar R Bhavana & Bheemsen Aitha Srirammohan Beltangady Pushpa & Sripathy U Rao Jon & Julie Allord John T. Contillo Laxmi & Viswanatha Reddy Shalini & Rajiv Aneja Yasaswi Raparla is sixteen years old and Raj & Anjan Lukkoor Syamala & Krishnaiah R Prameela & Harinath Apuri is in 10th grade at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science Atul Pandey Varsha & Datta Sambare Susan A & Sanjay Asthana and Technology in Rockville, MD. He is the President of Ravi M. Shankar Lakshmi, K Rao Sunkavalli Laxmi & Subbarao Bollepalli J Rani & Krishnamoorthy T Shobhna & Pradeep Caplash National Junior Honor Society and has contributed to local $500 to 999 Vani & Parthiban Thilagar Kamala & Murthy Chimata newspapers. He enjoys debating and essay writing. Yasaswi Anonymous Lakshmi & H Rao Vaitla Theresa & Hemang Dave learns the Carnatic music on violin (student of legendary Sailaja & Ramana Akunuri Dwaraka & Venkatasai V Felishia & Jason Davis Lalgudis). Yasaswi is a nationally rated chess player and was Samit Bhattacharya Jaya & V Venugopal Padma & Chalapathi D Veena & Venkat Gade Indira, S Rao Donthamsetti the captain and champion of Chess team in middle school. Shanti, Laxmana Godishala $200 to 249 S.A. & S.K. Dronamraju Aparna & Ajay Gupta Rajeswari & Rao Chintapalli Lakshmi & Shrinath E 2005 BRAIN BEE WINNERS Radha & Dev Keshav Sanjay Desai Elizabeth & Micheal F Linda & Bruce Koe Debendranath Dey Nimisha & Anthony Finizza th Madhavi, Madhu Kottapalli Janaki & Rangarao Gobburi Ravi & Mala Ganesan Mangala Iyengar is seventeen years old and is in 12 grade Srividya & S Rao Malipeddi Premkumar Harikrishnan Sailaja & Sankara Gunda at East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, NC. Mangala Madhavi & Gaugarin Oliver Padmaja & Suri Jetty Renee & Wayne Harris participated in the Department of Energy National Science Jayasri & R Rao Paturi Madhavi & Prakash Kailasa Vidya & Jayaram Iyengar Bowl this year. She is also an avid debater and recently attended Vinita Raghavan Bindu & Ravi Kasarla Devika & Deven Joshi Indra & Chris Ramdhani Janaki & G K Rao Kodali Uma Devi & R Rao Kanuri the National Forensics League Championships in Philadelphia. Rekha & Sambamurthy V Vidyavathi & Krishnaiah K Hema & Prasad Karcherla In her spare time, Mangala sings Carnatic music, volunteers at the University of Shari & Spencer W Lampert Aruna & Krishna North Carolina-Chapel Hill Hospital, and teaches younger students about Hindu $250 to 499 Satish Mandavilli Karunakaram Culture at the Chinmaya Mission Balavihar. Mangala aspires to become a biomedical Ajit R Nerurkar Sridevi & Varadendra P Sridevi & Srinivas Kodali st rd Annapurna Pendri Madhavi & Kasi Paturi Sireesha & Ramesh Kola researcher. Mangala won 1 rank in Brain Bee and 3 rank in Senior Essay Satya & Swamy Achanta Ramanathan Raguraman Kavita & Lalit Kothari Writing National finals. Haritha & Naveen Akkina Revathi & Srinivasan R Mohana & Srini Krish Neelima & Sandip Beri Aarthi & Shivakumar R Sarvjit & Jatinder Kumar Arka Mallela is in 8th grade. Arka was qualified to participate Annapurna & Srinivas C Bharathi & Ramayya S Chacko Kurian Ramaswamy Chandrashekar Nancy & John Scranton Maureen & B Jack Longley in the “TIP” (Talent Identification Program) offered by the Vanaja & Obayya C Pooja & Bimal Sheth Sonia & John Mathew Duke University in 2004. Arka achieved a Black belt in Yoshukai Rani S & S Reddy Chintam Anuradha & Srinivas Sirigina Jennifer & Steven Mathews Karate after five and a half years of training and became a Life Sridevi & Sanjay Chittore Sumana & Balmiki Sur Rajani & Narayana Meduri Scout at a very young age of twelve and has completed several Vanaja, Chandra Dommaraju Sridevi & Shiv Udutha Jyotsna & Naresh Miglani Vijaya, Visweswararao Durga Loretta & Thomas Verma Jamuna & S Rao Mogallapu requirements to become an Eagle Scout. He has been playing Mani & Ravi Errabolu Jyoti & Gautam Ranade Deepti & Naval Mohta violin for about five years. Rema Govind Chitra & Kal Subramanian Vijaya & Padmanabhan M Padmaja & Murthy G Vimala & C Naganna Pranay Udutha is a rising 8th grader at Palmer Middle School in Kennesaw (Atlanta), Aradhana & Tarun Gupta $150 to 199 Vibha & Rajiv Naik Bhanusri Jakkaraju Lakshmi & Balaji Bodicherla Uma, Harinatha Reddy N GA. He received State Recognition and Commendation Medal from Duke Nayana & Kaushik Joshi Lavanya & Jagan Borra Usha & S Narayanaswamy University’s Talent Identification program for achieving high scores in SAT in 8 37 Olympiad for elementary schools, and has obtained special Mamata & Vivek Narendran Sumathi & Richard Runja Chitra & Ramaswamy V recognition for achieving one of the highest score in the tests. Jas & Sunita Parmar Ipsita & Susant Satpathy Jayasri & H Rao Valivety Usha & Raja Sekhar Pathuri Gayatri & Adesh Saxena Rekha & Srinivas Vuppuluri Nihal is an avid sports enthusiast – he enjoys playing Linsey & Rachel Philip Latha & Manimaran S Kumar Periakaruppan basketball, swimming, Taekwondo, and tennis. Nihal believes Anjali & Gautam Phull Sandhya & M Shivashankar Sanjay Sahoo that “giving and volunteering” is important. Shivani, Prasad Devarapalli Uma & D Sivakumar Adesh Saxena He shared his NSF prize money with the Chitra & Murali Rajagopalan Mira & Vishaw Sondhi Jaymin Shah Supriya & Suhas P Rao Rajasree Srinivasan Alka Singh less fortunate children in India. When he Saikantha & Tejaswi Raparla Radhika & T R Srinivasan Veena Somayaji grows up he plans to contribute to science Aruna & Krishna P Reddy Nirmala & Palanisamy S and technology. Rajeswari & Raju Rudhraraju Urmila & Tirupataiah Tella

Jay Shah is eleven years old and is in 5th grade Gomes Elementary in San Ramon, CA.

th Chanukya Malla is a 10 year old, and is in 4 grade in How are the Candidates Selected for Detroit, MI. Chanukya received a Gold Medalist in Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools 2005 and Scholarships in India? was in the top 20 in North America for Kumon Math-2 years in a row. He is part of the school Word masters team (Nation This is a question often asked by many about the scholarship program for the -wide vocabulary test for elementary schools) which was placed 1st in the Nation. potential donors. They want to know upcoming academic year. He is an active member of the Boy Scouts since 2nd grade. Some of Chanukya’s that their hard-earned money is helping Go to Press: hobbies include playing soccer and tennis. the most deserving pupil, not just any The aim is to get the word deserving. They know the need is there out to all eligible students. The everywhere. They also know that announcement is sent to all local 2005 MATH BEE LEVEL 3 WINNERS everyone can’t be helped because of newspapers, and other media including limited resources. So they want their TV and radio. The content is Matthew Vengalil is thirteen years old and is in 7th grade at contribution go to the very best. disseminated both in English and in the Parcells middle school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. He achieved local language. The media does this free the first place in math in the Midwest Talent Search competition. NSF currently has seventeen centers for of charge as a community service. This He was on the school’s Social Studies Olympiad team which giving scholarships in India: announcement normally is made ranked number one in the state of Michigan. He enjoys reading, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhavnagar, between June and August to coincide playing piano and soccer and is an active member in his school’s choir. His hobbies Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Hyderabad, with the examination results. All eligible include collecting interesting and unique coins from both India and the United Jodhpur, Jamshedpur, Kanpur, Katihar, students are encouraged to write to the States. Kochi, Kolkata, Madurai, Mau, Pune, local center for application forms. Sibsagar, and Trivandrum. Here is a Students have two to four weeks to send Arjun Puranik is thirteen years old and is in 7th grade in brief synopsis of the entire process at a in their applications, along with their Plum Grove Junior High School in Rolling Meadows, typical center. academic scores and documents on their IL. Arjun has secured the first place for the past 3 years at financial status. the Illinois Math League competition. Arjun qualified for Get Ready: Each center monitors their the National Mathcounts competition in Detroit in May 2005, local Common Entrance Test (CET) Form a Selection Committee: While where he was the Illinois State topper. He plays the piano schedules. Shortly after the the applications are being received, a and has given many recitals. He also enjoys playing tennis and has been ranked examinations have taken place, the local Selection Committee gets established. within the top 20 in the Chicago area and top 50 in the Midwest. NSF center (or the NSF USA at the Selecting the right people to be on this request of the local center) prepares a Committee is one of the most crucial formal press release (announcement) elements in the process. Committee

36 9 members within each center are selected across all centers, and the information Last year, he won 1st place in junior vocabulary and was placed fifth in the MB3 at based on their credentials and respect is in turn relayed to NSF USA. Following the national competition in Phoenix. Anand won 1st rank in SVB and 3rd rank in in the community. Usually three to five the confirmation of the finalists, funds the MB-3 National Finals. members are appointed based on their are disbursed to the selected respective integrity, honesty, character, candidates. Return receipts for the Shaswat Samudra is thirteen years old and is in 8th grade at trust, and reputation. funds received by the students are sent St.Mark’s School of Texas in Dallas, TX. Shaswat reached back to the central office. Finally, an the top five from Texas last year at the Texas State Level Selection Process: The Selection award ceremony is often scheduled Geography Bee after winning at the school and regional Committee screens all applications where the press is invited. This not only level. Last year, as a seventh grader, he was accorded State based on academic qualifications first, helps the student in being recognized, Level Recognition and Grand Recognition Awards by the and on the financial need second. To be but also makes more people become Duke University as part of their Talent eligible, a student must score among the aware of NSF. Identification Program, leading to a top five percent, which is relaxed to ten scholarship from a local university. percent in the case of rural and girl Renewals: The student must maintain students. The annual family income high academic standards for the Soham Chakraborty is thirteen years old and is in 8th grade at should not exceed Rs. 38,000 in urban scholarship to be renewed for each year Shaker Heights Middle school in Cleveland, OH. areas and Rs. 26,000 in rural area. Of of study. The scholarships currently those eligible, a short list of the most cover 100% of tuition fee in most states. 2005 MATH BEE LEVEL 1 WINNERS deserving candidates is made for an in- The student and family are expected to person interview. Each student and a cover the remaining costs either Shyam Narayanan is seven years old and is in 2nd grade at parent are interviewed and verifications through their own funds or other Pleasant Ridge Elementary in Kansas City, KS. Shyam got are made as to the genuineness of their scholarships. 99.99 percentile in Uniform Non-verbal Intelligence Test application. Candidates are reimbursed (UNIT). Shyam won the Superior Solo Piano Performance for one-way travel to the local NSF NSF is growing every year. The average award in MAMA festival (August 2004) and won Gold medals center. The interview process and the award is about $250 per student per year. in Desi Olympics in Kansas City. Shyam’s hobbies are verification process are quite extensive, In order to establish a new NSF center, swimming, bicycling, piano, martial arts, jogging, computers as every effort is made to be sure the it is necessary to be able to support 10 and typing. aid is going to the most-needy and scholarships. Therefore, if the award is deserving among the poor. given for four years, then at least Aakash Pattabi is eight years old and is in 2nd grade at $10,000 per year is needed to establish Barksdale Elementary in Austin, Texas. Aakash is a speed- Communication with Central Office and and maintain a new center. reader, reading at 300 words per minute - and is a big fan of the NSF USA: After a center finalizes its Harry Potter series. He competes intensively on everything choice of candidates, the information is In a nutshell this is the entire NSF with his twin brother Vikram (who was placed in the top 10 of sent to the national coordinator. Here, scholarship process. The Foundation this year’s math bee). He enjoys playing the piano, loves the list is further verified to ensure the welcomes any new ideas or thoughts playing chess, basketball and swimming. norms are being uniformly implemented for improving this process. Niranjan Balachandar is eight years old and is in 2nd grade at Hightower Elementary school in Plano, TX. Niranjan is a A How to Do Primer for Spelling & Vocabulary Bee in India budding and avid painter and sketch artist. Niranjan is also Sandip K. Dasverma playing to learn mridangam, a south Indian classical drum. While the spelling and vocabulary spelling bee in Orissa is only 3 years 2005 MATH BEE LEVEL 2 WINNERS contests run by North South old. It was initially started by Sandip K. Foundation (NSF) in the US are now Dasverma under the banner of Diocese Nihal Satyadev is eleven years old and is in 5th grade in Tustin Ranch, CA. Nihal more than a decade old, the Indian of North India, Cuttack. Now it is being has been the winner of the founder’s gold medal, for the last two years, in the Math 10 35 run under the auspices of K. P. Das schools (from Cuttack) sent in about 500 Nikhil Koganti is fourteen years old and is in 8th grade at Rice Memorial Spelling Bee and Vocabulary applications. Middle school in Dallas, TX. Nikhil won 2004 Collin County Trust. From the beginning, the contest 4. The preliminary word lists Spelling Bee Championship; Scripps Howard Dallas Morning has been assisted technically by the (1,000 words each for spelling and News Competition and was placed 5th in The Dallas Morning NSF USA. vocabulary) were received from NSF. News Spelling bee for the North Texas Region. Nikhil’s hobbies They were checked for variation in are Tae Kwon Do and reading. To adapt to the local conditions, the spelling, retyped, copied and sent to Cuttack team has developed their own each student to study. This is both time 2005 JUNIOR VOCABULARY WINNERS list of dos and don’ts. For example, the consuming and expensive. Some words team had to deal with the following were replaced as they were very Krithika Varagur is eleven years old and is in 6th grade at issues: American. John Adams Middle School in Edison, NJ where she is an 1. Unlike in North America, the 5. There was usually a shortage all A and Honor Roll student. She learns Indian music and Indian program has to be school based of good pronouncers, and even English dance, participates in her school’s choir, and is a member and not based on volunteers among the teachers did not have good of the jazz band where she plays the Trumpet. She got 1st parents and civil society. pronunciation skills. Luckily we had a rank in her grade in the AMC8 (American Mathematics 2. Transport is both expensive few top class pronouncers in Prof Gopa Competition). She has participated in NSF bees since she and a big hindrance for a distance of Das, Nita Das, Farley North, Stanley was 8, and has also gone to the national finals every year. even 15 miles. Wright and Mariamma Jachak at New Krithika won the 2nd place in the 2004 Junior Vocabulary 3. Indian English and American Stewart School. Bee. English are different both in spelling and 6. The team conducted some pronunciation. demo competitions in new schools, Anirudh Dasarathy is eleven years old and is in 5th grade at 4. People in India are accustomed where it was not done in 2003. This year Birchwood School in Cleveland, OH. Anirudh achieved to getting things free, so even a Rs 10 it will be done through a demo VCD, Black belt in Karate, plays Carnatic to 20 entry fee can be questioned. which is available to others at cost. music on violin. 5. The number of participants is 7. We could have used a few of usually high because, unlike in the US the parents as judges. But some parents Sathvika Ramaji is twelve years old and is in 7th grader at (only Indo-Americans), everyone is questioned the fairness of such Glades Middle School in Miramar, Florida. She is a eligible to participate, though the kids competition. As a result, we strictly voracious reader and is categorized as a highly-gifted first need to be motivated. forbade the parents or their friends, student by the Broward County School System. Sathvika being in the room of their wards. was the school Spelling Bee champion for the last 2 years. I will now describe the process (last 8. Because of the large number Sathvika is learning Bharatnatyam and Carnatic music and year) which is the main area of interest of applicants, contests were held in attends Balavihar and Tamil language classes over the weekends. She also plays to the readers here: multiple rooms concurrently with no the Piano and the Clarinet. She is very interested in art and won the 3rd place in the 1. We sent a letter to every more than 50 in any room. A child can Caribbean Art Competition. school we targeted giving a date by only participate in spelling or which to send the list of willing vocabulary, but not both. The contests 2005 SENIOR VOCABULARY WINNERS participants with a Rs 15 fee per child. were done in both Cuttack and 2. Except a few schools, which Bhubaneswar. Anand Oza is thirteen years old and is in 7th grade at Takoma were under control of the diocese, we 9. Each kid was given 3 random Park Middle School, in Silver Spring, Maryland. In had to pursue the school English words in the beginning (Phase 1, oral), Mathcounts, Anand was invited to the national competition teachers or the Head Masters, a list of 20 words dictated to them for in Detroit in 2005. Anand achieved a perfect 800 score in incessantly. writing (Phase 2, written) and again 3 Math SAT. Anand is an avid reader, plays chess, video 3. About 6 English medium random words at the end (Phase 3, oral.) games, tennis, table tennis, and basketball. Anand has schools (3 from Cuttack and 3 from The cut off for the semifinals was competed in the NSF Bees since he was in the third grade. Bhubaneswar) and 3 Oriya medium decided after both the Cuttack and 34 11 Bhubaneswar competitions were over. 12. The top 30 during the 2005 WINNER BEES Roughly 20% were invited to the semifinals were selected for the finals, semifinals. The score sheets were which also followed the same format of 2005 JUNIOR SPELLING BEE WINNERS signed by each judge and pronouncer, three phases. Semifinals were held in Anjithaa Radhakrishnan is eight years old and is in 3rd and were later archived, just in case. the morning with the finals scheduled grade and at the Academy of Notredame in Manchester, Phase 2 and 3 included some words from in the afternoon. NH. out side the list given to children earlier. 13. In the finals there were two ties These words were also obtained from which were eliminated by a tie breaker Apoorva Rangan is eight years old, the NSF data base and were kept under for which additional words not in the and is in 2nd grade at Challenger wraps by Prof Gopa Das who gave out list were used. Elementary in San Jose, CA. She is the lists only at the last moment. She 14. Awards amounting to Rs 22 an avid reader, accomplished pianist, flute player, and is had made the necessary correction and thousand were given away: Rs. 3,000 very interested in Carnatic Music. She has completed duplication of the list with due for 1st prize, Rs 2,000 for 2nd prize and California Music Teachers Association Piano Certificate of assistance from Nita Das. Rs 1,000 for the third prize in each of Merit - Level 3, and was placed first in US Open Piano 10. For the next level of contests Vocabulary and Spelling Bee. Competition. called semifinals, 78 kids were invited 15. Five consolation prizes each of for spelling and some 52 for vocabulary. Rs. 500 (total 10) was also given in each Akshay Aitha is eight years old and is in 3rd grade at They included at least one person from category. Dougherty Elementary school in Milpitas, CA. From his each participating school so they can early childhood, Akshay developed a special interest carry the flavor of the final to their fellow For further information, you may towards reading books. He started reading at the age of students. Semifinals were held in contact: Prof. Gopa Das, President and three. Amazingly he has read thousands of books so far. multiple rooms simultaneously. expert: 0671-2617530 He read all the volumes of Harry Potter in a span of one 11. The same format was used at Farley North, Secretary: 0671-2619368 month. His hobbies include reading, coin collection, the semifinals consisting of three Nita Das, Asst Secretary: 0671-2618189 playing soccer, swimming, karate, and Pokemon cartoon. phases. Again the confidentiality of the Sandip Dasverma: test words was very carefully maintained [email protected] 2005 SENIOR SPELLING BEE WINNERS by Prof Das. Nilesh Raval is thirteen years old and is in 7th grade at Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, a magnet school, with Fundraising Events a concentration in Math/Science in Lansing, MI. Nilesh was a semifinalist in the 2004 Discovery Channel Young Scientist The river of giving flows once again… Challenge. Nilesh plays tuba in his school’s band. He has Education is truly a gift for a lifetime. 2005 has indeed started a ripple effect, received recognition for being a good role model by the North South Foundation is able to give which will improve the life of more and State of Michigan. He holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. this gift to so many under privileged more underprivileged Indians. Nilesh is an aspiring Ophthalmologist. This was Nilesh’s first appearance at the children growing up in India through North South Senior Spelling Bee. you - the donors - who donated all Hopkinton, MA - June 26, 2005 Srikrishna Raghavan is thirteen years old and is in 7th Grade through the year and at specific Close to fifty families from New at Branch Crossing Junior High school in The Woodlands, fundraising events. This year NSF held Hampshire and Massachusetts TX. Srikrishna is a straight A student. Sri attended the Duke six major fundraising events around the participated in the annual fundraising University Talent Identification Program this past summer. country. NSF is grateful to all the event held at Hopkinton state park. The He participates in math competitions, represents his school participants, contributors, and the many event kicked off with a hike around the at science fairs, plays chess in his spare time with his volunteers whose enthusiasm and park. After the hike, children did art in younger brother and is a very accomplished soccer player tireless efforts have made these events the woods or played in the field. as well. a success. Everyone who donated in 12 33 role in fundraising in increments of one share a deep and abiding passion to help Everyone enjoyed a sumptuous lunch, Spartan community center MSU. dollar (one square in a sheet of 100 uplift India to her rightful place in the donated by local restaurants. The Harry Eighteen kids aged 4-10 presented a squares). The funds raised as part of comity of nations, and to give to our Potter quiz was a big hit and since it character building play “The Enchanted DAS contribute to North South people true Independence — control was too hot to play games, children hit Forest.” The moral of the play was the Foundation’s mission to provide over their lives and destiny — the water at a nearby beach. This 5th NSF’s motto “Helping those who need scholarships to poor but meritorious something I think 1947 promised but did annual walk raised $7,500. Of this to help themselves.” Kids were highly children in India. not achieve yet, through education and amount, $2,500 was collected by DAS excited to wear their animal costumes empowerment.” participants. and performed par excellence. This was “Great job with this year’s finals too, as followed by a talent show and kids sang usual. I have attended the NSF events The National contest categories Hamden, CT – June 26, 2005 songs ranging from Carnatic 3 years in a row and it keeps getting consisted of Junior and Senior Spelling On this bright and summery Sunday compositions to Hindi film songs. There better every year with increasing Bees for children below 9 and 15 years, morning, the CT-NSF volunteer team were a couple of Hindi film dance participation and scale! I was awestruck respectively. The Junior Vocabulary was up early, making sure that they had performances and violin, cello and by the army of ‘Red shirt’ volunteers. (word-meaning) contest is meant for everything set up for the Walk/Bike-a- dulcimer recitals. In all, the kids raised Let us keep up the great work and children below 13 years, while the Senior thon event held on the sprawling greens $1,000. The Lansing chapter has continue to dream bigger each year. I Vocabulary contest is for children below of Brooksvale Park in Hamden, CT. The succeeded in generating a lot of am particularly delighted that we the age of 17. The spelling and day was filled with events ranging from enthusiasm and goodwill toward the continue to add contests that matter and vocabulary were held in 3 phases with some serious thinking to pure fun, from North South Foundation. This event bring the diversity of talent in the the last one involving elimination somewhat strenuous physical level to was special in the sense that people community to the forefront - Math Bee rounds that made it quite exciting. barely moving your fingers for the realized that NSF not only focuses on in 2004, Geography Bee Pilot in 2005, Bingo. In other words, if you were just the academic aspect of excellence, but Essay Writing Contest and the The Math Bee that was introduced last 2 yrs. old or 100 yrs old you’d find that also encourages the all round extra proposed Public Speaking contest to be year was a popular contest as it attracted there was something exciting waiting for curricular development of the children. added in 2006,” was some feedback massive registrations throughout the you at the event. The event at its 7th The idea of one kid doing something for received from Kalyan Subramanian, a regional contests. The Math Bee was year raised close to $2,820. another underprivileged kid in the spirit parent from Phoenix, AZ. held in two phases, one written and of giving was well enforced by this another lightning round with questions Downers Grove, IL – June 19, 2005 event. Rekha Sambamurthy along with “Thanks for giving me an opportunity displayed on a screen for 60 seconds. The 15th NSF Walk/Bike/Games-a-thon many other local volunteers spear to volunteer. The whole event was very The Level 1 in Math Bee is meant for of the Chicago chapter was held in the headed this new type of fundraising. educative. In fact, I gained some Grades 2 and lower, the Level 2 for beautiful McCollum Park in Downers The event was sponsored by the knowledge by volunteering. Would grades 3-5, the Level 3 for grades 6-8 Grove, IL. There were close to 200 Kumon Learning Center at Okemos. love to volunteer for NSF again in and Level 4 for Grades 9 and 10. The people who participated in the future,” said Sudha Saxena, a volunteer Senior Essay Writing that was successful event, which raised a little Canton, MI - September 11, 2005 from Chicago. introduced this year was open to grades over $6,000. Many local restaurants The fifth annual walkathon of NSF 9-12. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners of donated food for the event and NSF Metro Detroit Chapter was held in Arindam Chakrabarti, a judge at the all these contests will receive North organized games like Volley Ball and Heritage Park, Canton. It was a nice contests said - “I greatly enjoyed being South Foundation scholarships of Tennis. The chess tournament was sunny day with perfect weather. Twenty involved in the National Finals and $1000, $500 and $250 respectively, another popular event which drew a lot families participated in the event which seeing so many extremely smart and redeemable in the freshman year of their of participants young and old. included a workshop on public talented children. I was also especially college. speaking. Some of the topics given to moved to see that your Foundation Lansing, MI - Aug 26, 2005 talk were, ‘Who is your role model and brings together some of the nicest and For more information, please send an The NSF Lansing chapter’s annual why so?’ and ‘What do you want to most talented people in the Indian- email to [email protected] Fundraiser was held on August 26 at American community, and all of them This article is continued on page 24 32 13 This year the Foundation held its organization that brings young people national finals at Northwestern from different religious communities Dollar – A – Square: Fundraising University (NWU), Evanston on together to build understanding and Campaign for Kids by Kids Saturday, August 6th and Sunday, cooperation in social action projects. Dr. August 7th, 2005. The National Finals Patel was recently named “one of thirty Bharati Pastapur were co-sponsored by the South Asian social visionaries under thirty changing Student Alliance (SASA) of NWU. Over the world” by Utne Magazine. Dr. Patel seven hundred seventy finalists from gave a stirring speech to the parents The Dollar-A-Square (DAS) is a fund money to fill the squares. Some ask for over sixty North South Foundation and contestants alike impressing upon raising program “for the children by the donations in lieu of birthday gifts. Some centers throughout the US participated the audience to follow the twin Indian children”. DAS, which was started in others collect cans and conserve nature in the event. values of achievement and service. 2003, is now in its 3rd year. Children as while helping another child! Here’s an young as three years have been extract from one of the kids who wrote This is the 6th year for North South Enrichment activities were offered collecting donations to help children in to Dr. Chitturi, the founder of NSF: Foundation’s Brain Bee, a neuroscience during the 2-day event. On Saturday India attend school. Kids who had contest. Mangala Iyengar, a rising afternoon everyone enjoyed a parent participated in DAS were recognized “I collected this amount on my birthday senior from Chapel Hill, NC won this spelling bee conducted by the students during the national finals. This year alone by providing an option to the guests to year’s Brain Bee Championship without as the grand finale of an interactive panel 98 kids raised $8,149 through this contribute to DAS in lieu of gifts. I am missing a question throughout the discussion on teaching kids spelling program. Every child is encouraged can glad that I am able to contribute towards competition. Mangala will be invited to and vocabulary. Kids had fun watching join this great team! scholarships for needy students in the 2006 International Brain Bee their parents sweat it out at the bee. On India. I intend to continue to be conducted by Prof. Norbert Myslinski Sunday afternoon, there was an What is DAS? Each child gets a pledge involved in the DAS program and other of the University of Maryland, Baltimore interactive panel discussion on teaching sheet with 100 squares and each square fund raising activities conducted by in March 2006. Prof. Myslinksi himself problem solving techniques in math. A is worth one dollar. The children fill one NSF.” conducted this year’s Brain Bee contest panel of experts in mathematics square for every dollar they raise. By along with Bhakti Nagalla, a past North answered numerous questions on math going around the neighborhood and How to begin? Give a DAS pledge sheet South Foundation and International competitions and preparing children for asking friends and other parents, to your children and talk to them about Brain Bee champion. these contests. There was an children can easily fill in the squares. DAS. You can start off their collection enthusiastic sharing of views and One complete sheet means at least $100 by giving them some money and In the path of challenging children of experiences among the moderators and that provides nearly half of a scholarship. checking off the squares on the pledge their educational potential, North South audience. Supervised babysitting For those children who complete one sheet. Soon they would be full. Foundation, this year introduced yet (including a magic show and balloon sheet, NSF offers free access to an online another program, “Senior Essay animals), a chess/game room for the kids educational game. It is something Two pledge sheets get you access to Contest”, for high school students. freed parents to enjoy some of the above educational and fun; but most of all it both spelling and vocabulary games. By Tenth graders Shazeen Harunani from activities, lectures, and competitions develops a giving heart in your child. just adding another half you can help a Rockford, IL and Aarti Iyer from offered during the two days. poor child in India go to college for one Houston, TX won the first and second Why they did it and how they did it? year. place, respectively, while the Brain Bee Continuing on with the tradition from Children do it to help kids like themselves champion Mangala Iyengar won the past years, children and contestants in India through various ways. This Learn more about DAS on http:// third place. who had participated in North South helps them discover compassion in www.northsouth.org/dollarasquare.asp. Foundation’s Dollar-A-Square (DAS) This year’s keynote speaker at the award themselves. It also makes them feel good, program were recognized at the Finals Remembering Meghna Mahapatra, a ceremony for these contests was Dr. knowing that being children does not by Madhavi Nathan Oliver, the founder DAS kid: NSF family is very sad to have Eboo Patel, founder and Executive prevent them from making a positive of the DAS program. As part of the DAS recently lost Meghna Mahapatra, a Director of the Interfaith Youth Core, a impact on the society. Many kids give program, participating children young DAS participant from Michigan, Chicago-based international up their pocket money, and tooth fairy throughout the country take an active 14 31 2005 National Math Bee Levels 1 & 2 Winners to a tragic accident. We offer our heartfelt children in various chapters. A DAS condolences to her family. The Lansing, coordinator helps publicize DAS at Rank MB Level 1 MB Level 2 Rank MI chapter had a fundraising event, in events like the bees, walkathons and August, in which children participated other events where NSF sets up 1 Shyam Narayanan Nihal Satyadev 1 in a play called, “Enchanted Forest” to information booths. If you are interested 2 Aakash Pattabi Jay Shah 2 raise money for helping poor children in becoming a DAS coordinator for NSF, 3 Niranjan Balachandar Chanukya Malla 3 go to college in India. Meghna had a please contact Bharati Pastapur at 4 Vivek Miglani Aditya Viswanathan 4 role in the play. 913-780-2617 or email to address 5 Sachchit Murali Anirudh Dasarathy 5 DAS Coordinators: There are several [email protected] 6 Nivedh Rajesh Tejas Sundaresan 6 adult DAS coordinators motivating 7 Dipayan Banerjee Krishna Hegde 7 8 Rupesh Chinta Akshat Shekhar 8 9 Rupayan Neogy Shantan Chemerla 9 2005 DAS Kids 9 Vikram Pattabi Virup Gubba 10 Abhinav & Rishikesh Narayanan Debnil Sur Manas Sarma Natasha Ghose 2005 National Math Bee Levels 3 & 4 Winners Monishaa Suresh Priya Venki Alyssa Ghose Madhuri Satish Sanjay Venki Deva Kota Rank MB Level 3 MB Level 4 Rank Sanjana Lakshmi Nivedha Ram Meghna Mahapatra Arun Jandaur Naveen Ram Raveena Mishra 1 Matthew Vengalil Keshav Puranmalka 1 Kshitij Srinath Sean Savarirayan Ritwik Biswas 2 Arjun Puranik Bharat Kusuma 2 Akshayraj Aitha Tara Jawahar Ravi Betzig Megha Katti Divya Muthusamy Harini Acharya 3 Anand Oza Yasaswi Raparla 3 Pooja Phull Akshara Tejaswi Dev Acharya 4 Anubhav Sinha Anita Kartikeya Kandula 5 Sudarshan Mohanram Neil Akshay Prabhushankar 6 Akshar Wunnava Pranav Phull Navya Prabhushankar Avani Yaganti Aishwarya Pastapur* 7 Arka Mallela Viswanath Valiveti Kavya Shivashankar* 8 Anita Mehta Shruti Vaidyanathan Prashant Godishala 9 Mahadev (Dave) Nair Srinivas Panchamukhi Vishal Yelisetti 10 Manoj Maddali Prasanthi Kandula Shravan Dakshinamurthy Pradeep Kandula Vignesh Dakshinamurthy Prakash Kandula Meghna 1999-2005 Malavika Perinchery Sangita Murali Anirudh Udutha Priyatham Vennapusa Rohit Krishna Pranav Udutha 2005 National Finals Prashanth Vennapusa Amartya Chakraborty Tejas Srinivasan Sai Nikit Rani Sanjay Batchu Rajit Krishnamurthy Nishika Rani Vibhav Shrishail EVANSTON, IL: Nilesh Raval, a 13-year- attempt. In the second year of the Math Neha Sundaram Sowmya Kuruganti Priyanka Akunuri** Anish Thilagar old tuba player from Saginaw, MI and Bee contests, 7-year old Shyam Narayan, Hriday Chawla Apurva Chavali Lasya Thilagar Anjitha Radhakrishnan, an 8-year-old a pianist from Overland, KS and 11-year Drishti Chawla Dhivya Sridar Shyam Vasudevan from Nashua, NH won the 13th Annual old Nihal Satyadev from Tustin, CA won Iris Oliver Karthik Munugala Mayank Dubey North South Foundation Senior and the first places in Level 1 and Level 2 Ethan Oliver Netra Murthy Vivek Miglani Maya Jay Sreeman Kota Satyanarayana Junior Spelling Bee Championships, contests, respectively, while two Ramesh Govindan* Anushka Murthy Devabhaktuni th respectively. Krithika Varagur, from contestants from the Midwest, 7 grader Mallika Govindan* Ramya Mohankumar Aditya Dommaraju Edison, NJ won the Junior Vocabulary Matthew Vengalil from Grosse, MI and Nyshidha Gurijala Purva Shanker Sharavan Dommaraju contest, while precocious Anand Oza; 9th grader Keshav Puranmalka from Birdget Kodenkandath Antonia Iyer Prasanna Rajasekaran Abhishek and Subisha Tanvi Joshi Sarvesh Rajasekaran from North Potomac, MD who had won Naperville, IL got the top ranks in Level Shivakumar Abhijeet Das Swapna Kalapatapu the Junior vocabulary crown just last 3 and Level 4 contests, respectively. Namrita Murali year took the senior crown on his first * denotes one scholarship 30 15 NSF Scholarship Recipients In India 2005 National Spelling Bee Winners

Rank Senior Spelling Junior Spelling Rank

1 Nilesh Raval Anjithaa Radhakrishnan 1 2 Srikrishna Raghavan Apoorva Rangan 2 3 Nikhil Koganti Akshayraj Aitha 3 4 Sameer Mishra Shiva Kangeyan 4 5 Sameer Kailasa Mayank Ganesan 4 6 Mouctika Paluri Iris Oliver 6 7 Krithika Varagur Suryateja Rao 7 T. Eswara Rao B.Venkateswararao A. Lakshmi 8 Kavya Shivashankar Keval Yerigeri Medicine, AP Engineering, AP Engineering, AP 8 Vignesh Dakshinamurthy Sanjay Kottapalli 8 10 Akshat Shekhar Sonia Gupta 8 Shravanrama Dronamraju 8 Vivek Miglani 8 Roshini Srinivasan 8

2005 National Vocabulary Bee Winners

K. Haseen Basha D. Balaji Naik R. Harish Rank Senior Vocabulary Junior Vocabulary Rank Engineering, AP Engineering, AP Polytechnic, AP 1 Anand Oza Krithika Varagur 1 2 Shaswat Samudra Anirudh Dasarathy 2 3 Soham Chakraborty Sathvika Ramaji 3 4 Aditya Kalluri Siri Yelamanchili 4 4 Rohit Thummalapalli Ashley Thakur 5 6 Krishna Suri Aamani Paturi 5 7 Pranav Mahadevan Vikas Vavilala 7 8 Srikrishna Raghavan Bhavya Thota 8 9 Sivakumar Sundaram Sai Gourisankar 9 N. Raja Kumari S. Saritha V. Rajendra Prasad 9 Shazeen Harunani Polytechnic, AP Polytechnic, AP Polytechnic, AP 2005 National Brain & Essay Writing Bee Winners

Rank Brain Bee Essay Writing Rank

1 Mangala Iyengar Shazeen Harunani 1 2 Arka Mallela Aarti Iyer 2 3 Pranay Udutha Mangala Iyengar 3

K. Gopi Krishna B. Suneetha T. Suneetha Polytechnic, AP Polytechnic, AP Polytechnic, AP 16 29 Financial Highlights NSF Scholarship Recipients In India Fiscal Year: May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005

Scholarships in India 500

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200 S.K. Akbar K. Bharathi V.R. Reeshma 100 Polytechnic, AP Polytechnic, AP Engg., Kerala 0 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05

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3% Khais Kuningat Fasil, V.K. V. Praveen Kumar Medicine, Kerala Engg., Kerala Engg., Kerala Overhead Scholarships Corporate Donors: Dec 2004 - Nov 2005 97% $1,000 and above Community Foundation Telecompioneers Alexander American Express CSF Boston Foundation The Standard Insurance Ashok Kache Med & Ed Fdn DTE Energy Vajra Infotech Llc ATFS Hindu Comm & Cultural Ctr Castle Screen Printing Mutual Bank $200 to 249 Contributions to Scholarships in India Compuware Pitney Bowes Abbott Lab Fund (000) EZ MathTRix SPCS California Chapter Bank One 250 Fidelity Investments Tudor Investment Fleet Matching Gifts Hexco Kumon Learning Center 200 Indima Foundation $250 to 499 Madison Community Fdn Lucent Technologies Balavihar, Fairfield, CT Omgeo LLC 150 Pfizer Foundation HSBC Sun Microsystems Sarode Foundation Mittal Technologies 100 Sri Venkateswara Temple,NC SAS Insurance Technology $100 to 199 United Way SBC Embroidme Sorrento Valley 50 Verizon Seema World Travel Hinsdale Bank & Trust Co Watumull Foundation Silicon Systems India Community Center - Sukhwal Charitable Fdn KER Inc 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 $500 to 999 Systech Solutions Ushus Therapy Services Allied Solutions TANA Foundation Allstate Foundation 28 17 Recipients of NSF Scholarships in India -Current How RMTS test is conducted: Adivasi / Harijon students, which is in 1. A central agency (in our case proportion of their state population. NAME Rk Yr SP OCC NAME Rk Yr SP OCC IMA, BBSR) plans out the program T Harish 66 01 Me Agri P.S.Rakesh 705 02 Eg Agri G SravanKumar 118 01 Me Agri PoojaPonnappa 4695 02 Eg Agri schedule (date of test), prepares the Lessons learned: G Venu 400 01 Me Business KSSravanthi 2607 02 Eg Business question papers, application forms and 1. Civil society’s participation BArunKumar 521 01 Me Agri S MohanKumar 74 02 Eg Farmer then writes to the Orissa State Govt. has been successful. The creation of a K Siva Kumar 394 01 Me Shop AsimaKhanum 6602 02 Eg Mechanic Mass Education department. network of education lovers is proving NSanjivKrReddy 46 01 Me Farmer G.Chandana 1118 02 Me B.ObulReddy 140 01 Me Farmer HBGovardhan 748 02 Me Agri 2. The mass education dept both beneficial and necessary. MNagaPrasad 342 01 Me Farmer RSuneel 328 02 Me Expired sends out a circular to the 314 Blocks 2. The nominal scholarships SLavKrReddy 514 01 Me Farmer MV.MuniReddy 492 02 Me Expired development officers, who send it to the have made a difference in the lives of B Hari Krishna 500 01 Me SAparna 31 02 Sub Inspectors of Schools (SI) attached children. We have found kids who did M Koteshwar 262 01 Me D.S.Pradeep 02 Eg Agri Ppurushotham 66 01 Me Sajal Mapui 975 02 Eg Agri to the blocks. not have shirts to come to the camp, Akarunakar Rao 128 01 Me Arun Karan 1010 02 Eg Agri 3. The SIs send it to the Middle and so they had to borrow them. They YRPallavi 427 01 Me Agri NabaKrsamanta 1225 02 Eg Agri school Head Masters and the middle worked as wash boys in tea shops. BVRadhika 665 01 Me Agri Nizam Shah 927 02 Eg Mechanic school teachers take the initiative to 3. A fear existed that average BANagaraju 682 01 Me Agri Sanam Mitra 6132 02 Me BPSrividhya 1400 01 Me Agri SantoshKrPandit 246 02 Me Farmer organize it. students (class performance) are not SDSudarshan 845 01 Me Coolie Shyamal Roy 552 02 BA 4. The students pay a nominal good for RMTS. This has been proved TG Venkatesh 760 01 Me Farmer AnsilKrVasoya 81% 02 BA Labourer Rs. 10 entry fee. wrong and facts proved otherwise. The BAManjunath 1098 01 Me PriteshGadhiya 87% 02 Me Labourer 5. After the first two years we RMTS tests the logical mathematical BTReetha 1027 01 Me Alpesh Patel 92% 02 Me ClthVend Arnab Maity 333 01 Me Agri Rahul Chauhan 84% 02 Me Dia.Cutter noted the word is not going out and mind of the student and not the ability SD Karmarkar 01 SuhilRafalia 91% 02 Me Farmer participation decreased. So we started to remember tricks to solve problems. Rohit M Gajera 90% 01 Me Farmer DeepsinhParmar 87% 02 Me Labourer to have a civil society promoter, They are tested for the process & SandeepMevda 95% 01 Me Mehul Jethva 83% 02 Me normally some one’s father or brother approach to unknown problem. Results Sameer J Dal 84% 01 Me ParagD Chawla 89% 02 Me Bharat L Goti 86% 01 Me MB Goswamy 83% 02 Eg (and a retired person) to help us out and are sometime startling. Kids who were PareshPMasani 71% 01 Expired G Arun Kumar 02 Eg Business to give a push to the schools. This not at all expected to be good in math Rneelakandan 97% 01 Me Agri S Narmada 90% 02 Eg Coolie approach tried from this year is bearing were being successfully unearthed, and KSellam 96% 01 Me DW Krisnamurthy S 991 02 Me Kirana fruit. subsequent performance has confirmed Jayaprakashnath 418 01 Me Farmer Svivekanandan 99% 02 Me DW SMariaSubison 16 01 Me Fishermn N.Mohan Raj 98% 02 Eg 6. The participation went up 3 the correctness of test results. R.V.Praveen 24 01 Me AshokKrBhoi 22 02 Eg Agri fold from 1,500 to 4,800 this year, with 4. Girls have done equally well as Chandan Modak 27 01 Me Agri DebasishBehera 916 02 Eg Agri about 1,000 plus students attributed to the boys. Both 2003 and 2004 girls Aleti Gopi 86% 02 BS P Panigrahi 1255 02 Eg DW efforts of Non Resident Oriyas. topped. SRaghunathReddy 93 02 Eg Agri SubashMahapatra 983 02 Eg SureshKakarala 258 02 Eg Agri SantoshAKadam 92% 02 Me 7. From 14 out of 30, participation 5. Affirmative action is used to P Harish 132 02 Eg Farmer SalehaDaliat 02 Me has gone up to 29 out of 30 districts. select 40% of tribal and Harijon students R Rajesh 192 02 Eg Labourer KakotiSangeeta 16 02 Eg Agri Only one district Kandhamal, one of the – once in the camps, they have proved N Sweta 982 02 Eg Tailor Sohanlal Gujar 522 02 Eg Agri most interior, is still unrepresented. to be not inferior in any way to others. G Srinivas 181 02 Eg Rugraj 913 02 Eg Expired G Srikanth 223 02 Eg R.S.Paroda 83 02 Eg Farmer 8. There is a regional distribution MGuravaReddy 357 02 Eg Nidh Sharma 1219 02 Me Mechanic of scholarships as also other affirmative End Note: J Manjusha 745 02 Eg Pankaj Agarwal 78 02 Me actions, like equal distribution of If you’re interested in contributing to DVReddy 842 02 Eg Mohd.Hashim 17 02 Eg scholarships between West, South and this effort or starting such a project in V Swapna 380 02 Me Agri K.Sureshbabu 357 03 Eg Merchant M.Saraswati 02 Me Barber B.Satyavathi 844 03 Eg Labourer Coastal Orissa. 40% reservation for your own state - please contact us. A Limitha 149 02 Me Farmer MVL Mydhili 2214 03 Eg Mother G KishorKumar 345 02 Me M.Anishbabu 220 03 Eg Farmer Prof Swadheen Pattanayak, [email protected], Ph: (0674) 254-2164, A Gangadhar 756 02 Po Farmer B.Anil Kumar 3370 03 Eg Business C Rakesh 643 02 Po Ch.Phaneendra 382 03 Eg MtherHW 254-0604 or Sandip [email protected] Sk M Subani 834 02 Po K.Venkatesh 629 03 Eg Farmer

18 27 topic challenged the contestants to take area.This essay writing project was Recipients of NSF Scholarships in India -Current the lead and articulate how the inspired by one of the sponsors, who leadership would translate into activities won a very small prize for writing an NAME Rk Yr SP OCC NAME Rk Yr SP OCC P.Anupama 7505 03 Ph Pvt.Job S.K.Jaleel 2692 04 Po Labour for the betterment of humanity. The essay, which completely changed his B.Laxman 7 03 MS small gen. K.Sateesh 2826 04 Po Farmer winners of the essay contest were: career and fulfilled his long cherished T.Saraladevi 178 03 Me Agri Shaik Gousiya 3142 04 Po Tailor dream of helping the under-privileged U.Pavankumar 59 03 Eg Hotel wrkr J.Nageshwara Rao 3734 04 Po Farmer • First Place: $1,000 won by in India, literally with his own hand. BVReddy 124 03 Eg Agri M.Srinivasulu 72% 03 Po Driver N.Sreenivasarao 1401 03 Po Farmer A.V Kumar 92% 04 Ag Farmer Shazeen Harunani from Rockford, IL Indima Foundation believes that P.Durgaprasad 1418 03 Po Labourer K.RamaKrishna 87% 04 Ag Farmer • Second Place: $500 won by everyone is unique, and is born with DV Ramireddy 961 03 Po Farmer N.SitaRamaMurthi 86% 04 Ag Aarti Iyer from Houston, TX specific, but different gifts. Everybody P.Goutham 1594 03 Po Indl.Wrkr T.Venkateshwarlu 86% 04 Ag Farmer • Third Place: $250 won by does not learn the same way, but they G.L.Narayana 770 03 Po PostOffice Ch.Phanikrishna 86% 04 Ag Farmer Emamkhasim Shk 03 Po Driller MLVV Lakshmi 86% 04 Ag Farmer Mangala Iyengar from Raleigh, NC have their own talents. An essay contest B.Rekha 03 Po Ag.Wrkr R.Naseeruddin 86% 04 Ag Farmer like this, more so than any other type of Swamysagar 342 03 Po Clerk(pvt) D.RamMohan 85% 04 Ag PressRep See pp. 37-38 for their photos and brief contest, will encourage creativity. RVenkateswararao 2920 03 Po Service V.SrinivasaRao 83% 04 Ag labour bios. S Ganesh 90% 04 BS Elctrician N.Sireesha 82% 04 Ag Farmer S M Kumar 85% 04 BS Labourer A.SudeerKumar 81% 04 Ag Farmer Doors will open for the one who is P Deepa 82% 04 BS Painter P.RatnaKumari 81% 04 Ag Farmer The essays were reviewed by a total of rewarded and inspired to excel. The PVenkatesh 949 04 Eg Clerk B.Naveena 80% 04 Ag Farmer seven judges over two days. This founder of Indima Foundation wishes VRSubramaniam 3531 04 Eg Coolie P.ArunaKumari 90% 04 Ag Farmer Leadership-In-Writing Essay contest is to provide, through the Leadership-In- SShahjahan 1905 04 Eg Tailor B.R Chaitanya 79% 04 Ag Farmer PChinnathai 93% 04 Po DW R RaghuRam 79% 04 Ag Marchant the brainchild of Dr. Ray, an Orthopedic Writing essay contest, the same D Krithika 94% 04 BS Driver M Sailaja 81% 04 BS Farmer Surgeon from Chicago. opportunity to anyone who wants to P Thenmozhi 87% 04 BS Teastall S Sridevi 81% 04 BS Kooli participate at the high school level. The K Sharmila 88% 04 BS Coolie A Srilatha 84% 04 BS AutoDriver Indima Foundation has been intimately Foundation believes and desires that R Brindapriya 89% 04 BS Coolie B Bhavani 86% 04 BS Agri K Lakshmi 84% 04 BS Coolie B V Bharathi 86% 04 BS Agri involved in charitable, health-related NSF essay contest be kept open to all BRAmarnath 5449 04 Eg weaver B Anitha 87% 04 BS Farmer and educational activities in India, US and reward the flower that did not yet G Prasanna 88% 04 BS AplmSale MVenkateswarma 89% 04 BS Farmer and Mexico. It has donated in excess have the opportunity to bloom. For DebajyotiMitra 278 04 Eg Ex-Milt U Y Varalakshmi 90% 04 BS Farmer of one million dollars over the years. In further information, you can write to Dr. AnjanSaha 28 04 Eg Labour E. Trisanthi 93% 04 BS Farmer AKBiswas 1864 04 Eg Unempld T Unsath Jahan 81% 04 BS ArabicTcr the US, it has actively participated in Asok Ray at 2 Marissa Ct, Burr Ridge, SribasRoy 146 04 Me Priv Tutor Farah Naaz 82% 04 BS Business Katrina relief, Apna Ghar Shelter for IL 60527. For the 2006 contests you can S Manna 498 04 Me Labour Salma Shaheen 83% 04 BS Private abused women and children, and the register online at www.northsouth.org AnindyaNandy 89% 04 BS Unempld M Chandrakal 84% 04 BS LorryDriv Heartland Foundation, which treats during January for regionals or June for AsitMaity 84% 04 BS Agri V Sowmya 86% 04 BS Business AK Das 87% 04 BS Foodstall M MuraliMohan 80% 04 BS Farmer indigent, poor people in Chicago national finals. SampaBairagi 79% 04 BA Hawker T PraveenBabu 82% 04 BS Sec.grd SouravAdhikari 96% 04 Me Farmer EBBBhushan Reddy83% 04 BS Agri K.Muralidhar 98 04 Eg Clerk K Anjineyulu 83% 04 BS Kooli M.Santhosh 137 04 Eg kooli T Rama Rao 84% 04 BS Farmer Rural Math Talent Search (RMTS) in Orissa V.AnilKumar 904 04 Eg Clerk T V Sudhakar 85% 04 BS Farmer J.VeerRaju 1073 04 Eg Weaver M Ravi 85% 04 BS Labour Sandip K. Dasverma A.SreeRamya 6758 04 Eg Seperated G V Babu 85% 04 BS Agri Dr. Swadhinananda Pattanayak, the opportunity to represent India in the KVKSVP Rao 245 04 Eg FatherExp D Naganna 86% 04 BS Farmer Director of the Institute of Mathematics International Math Olympiad. Dr. PLN Manohar 216 04 Eg Business A Nayudu 86% 04 BS Farmer MK Prasad 245 04 Po Farmer K Srinivasulu 86% 04 BS Farmer and Applications (IMA) in Pattanayak observed that though 90% AK Susanth 274 04 Po Farmer J Ramprasad 87% 04 BS Farmer Bhubaneswar, has been conducting the of Orissans live in villages, not a single MRBNSR Guptha 830 04 Po Kooli B K Reddy 87% 04 BS Kooli annual Orissa Mathematics Olympiad child among the 30 being selected each M.RamaKrishna 1211 04 Po Sml Bus. M Peddanna 88% 04 BS Labour for several years. He screens candidates year from the Orissa Olympiad is from ChSriRama Reddy 1320 04 Po Kirana P Kiran Kumar 91% 04 BS Labour V.Kasivishwanath 1681 04 Po Agri G S K Reddy 92% 04 BS Kooli to represent Orissa at the national level. rural area. Purpose of RMTS is to remedy M.Anupama 2194 04 Po Agri K Ravi Sankar 89% 04 BS Petty Bus The winning candidates have an this situation. 26 19 Recipients of NSF Scholarships in India -Current 2005 Scholarship Sponsors For NSF-US Champions

NAME Rk Yr SP OCC NAME Rk Yr SPOCC Junior Spelling Bee Senior Spelling Bee V V N S Prasad 89% 04 BS Weaver Rashmi R 1355 04MeFarmer 1st Place $1,000 Hexco 1st Place $1,000 Dr. R. Kambhampati1 D Ramesh 90% 04 BS FatherExp M K Singh 736 04Eg Electr’n 2nd Place $500 NSF 2nd Place $500 NSF K P Krishna 91% 04 BS Tailor Ms SGhosh 102 04MeRetired 3rd Place $250 Seema Travel, St.Louis, 3rd Place $250 TANA Foundation B Deepthi 80% 04 BS Kooli KshitishCh.Jena 1477 04Eg Farmer V Latha 80% 04 BS Crpntr UpendraKu.Patra 1239 04Eg Business Junior Vocabulary Senior Vocabulary S Prashanthi 81% 04 BS Labour Biswanath Dash 1196 04Eg Farmer 1st Place $1,000 Dr. R. Kambhampati1 1st Place $1,000 Dr. R. Kambhampati1 N Lavanya 81% 04 BS Farmer RajendraSGupta 2443 04Eg TVMech 2nd Place $500 NSF 2nd Place $500 NSF T RamyaSri 82% 04 BS Business AshishVJaju 88% 04PoNil 3rd Place $250 NSF 3rd Place $250 NSF K RamaDevi 82% 04 BS Farmer AkshayDMarne 86% 04PoAutoDriver P ShubhaRani 82% 04 BS Agri AjitMarutiKale 85% 04PoNil Math Level 1 Math Level 2 V Sravanthi 82% 04 BS Business TruptiMNaik 86% 04PoAutoDriver 2 1st Place $1,000 Sarode Foundation 1st Place $1,000 www.EzMathTrix.com3 S ShobhaRani 84% 04 BS Farmer NitaJHinge 85% 04PoFarmer 2nd Place $500 NSF 2nd Place $500 NSF M Balakrishna 85% 04 BS Kooli ManjariBPathak 85% 04PoNil 3rd Place $250 NSF 3rd Place $250 NSF P Rajesh 87% 04 BS Farmer RajanRIndalkar 85% 04PoFarmer B Madhavi 88% 04 BS Business AmitPNingune 87% 04PoFarmer Math Level 3 Math Level 4 Business 1 K VijayaLakshmi 88% 04 BS SarikaAPatil 80% 04Eg Nil 1st Place $1,000 Dr. R. Kambhampati 1 Pvt.Tutor 1st Place $1,000 Dr. R. Kambhampati G Keerthi 89% 04 BS GaneshDParit 88% 04Eg Farmer 2nd Place $500 NSF Labour 2nd Place $500 NSF S Chandramouli 90% 04 BS NamitaSUpadhye 8009 04Eg Clerk 3rd Place $250 NSF G T Reddy 90% 04 BS FatherExp Khandra Kafle 86% 04MeFarmer 3rd Place $250 NSF Business M Swathi 90% 04 BS Ashish Thalia 186 04Eg Operator Miscellaneous Senior Essay Writing Driver Ashwani Ekdote 91% 04 BS Surendra Singh 4 04MeFarming Trophies NSF 1st Place $1,000 Dr. Asok K. Ray Farmer K.Srikanth 3519 04 Po Ajay Pal Pachar 59 04MeFarming Medals NSF 2nd Place $500 Dr. Asok K. Ray Carpenter Ch.Balachary 3879 04 Po Mukesh Agrawal 927 04Eg Shopkeeper Certificates(Reg) NSF 3rd Place $250 Dr. Asok K. Ray Labour B.Murali 76% 04 Po Ameda Ram 22 04MeFarmer Certificates(Natl) NSF Farmer G.Sivaji 78% 04 Po MayankKumarJain1810 04Eg Unemployed Bee Book NSF Manjunath TA 309 04 Me Business VijendraChauhan 196 04Eg Farmer ViswanathaReddy N307 04 Me Farmer ParsaRamBijrania 276 04Eg Farmer 1. Dr. Janaki Kambhampati Memorial Award Nagaraju AS 300 04 Me Farmer SDChoudhary 93 04Eg Farmer by Dr. Ravindranath Kambhampati Santhosh NK 325 04 Eg Farmer Tinu Sebastian 47 04PoLabour 2. Sarode Foundation by Dr. Sarode Pundaleeka Usha K 94 04 Eg Business Vimal Raj R.N. 27 04PoFarmer 3. Dr. Janardhan Grandhe Jagadeesh HV 1396 04 Me Business PSPriya 92% 04PhMillworker Deepa S 670 04 Me AutoDriver Sayra Bano 265 05PhBlind Divya R 581 04 Me Farmer V.R.Reeshma 208 05Eg Unemployed Raghavendra KR 76 04 Me Farmer V. Praveen Kumar 54 05Eg Unskl’edWork Scholarship Awards for Essay Writing Shyam Pujar 48 04 Eg Farmer Khais Kuningatt 267 05MeFarmer Prathima M 1085 04 Me RetiredEmp V.K.Fazil 1353 05Eg Expired The North South Foundation (NSF) has become a part of SAT, which will help introduced yet another challenge in 2005 students prepare for college entrance. Eg = Engineering, Me = Medicine, Po = Polytechnic, Ag = Agriculture – ‘Leadership-In-Writing Essay’ for high This year, more than 470 children school students at the national level. It participated among all levels, although is intended to encourage the following the contest was run on a pilot basis only traits in the participating contestants: at selected centers. At the national • Critical thinking finals, the subject of this year’s topic • Ability to organize one’s was: knowledge into a coherent essay format • The United Nations and its • Promote lucid and effective involvement in multifarious global written communication activities. The topic was selected by the sponsor They are all essential qualities in a good of the scholarships, Dr. Asok K. Ray, leader. This type of essay writing has founder of Indima Foundation. The 20 25 Fiftieth Birthday Gift English Workshop in India Indra Ramdhani Anita Gade* I am a Guyanese of Indian origin, raised that filled my mind with mysticism and in a Hindu home, the fifth child in a family spirituality such atrocities exist. Like my It was hard to believe that it was still hot spelling techniques in English language. of eight. The wages my parents received parents, I believe that sons and and humid even though summer had This, we said was an opportunity for were stretched to meet our basic needs. daughters are immeasurable assets and ended a couple of months ago in them to learn English language skills in Our lives were simple, but in the eyes of that freedom can be attained through southern India when we arrived there in the American way. To teach the English my parents we were all equal. Like most education. Stories of the Indian girls - July 2005. It reminded me of the dog days rules, I would read a rule off of the board Indians and people of Indian origin, my their exploitation and cries for help in of summer in Connecticut. I was on my followed by some examples. My dad father was more protective of his life, as well as the countless female way to Vijayawada to stay with my would then step in by explaining the rule daughters. Outside of family functions, fetuses severed before birth - touched paternal grandparents and conduct a and examples in Telugu. This included our activities were screened and the core of my being and I wanted to spelling workshop in English at a local discussion of the simplest rules such as supervised. But despite this control, my help. Through North South Foundation, school. Vijayawada is a large town in “I before E except after C” to complicated father’s vision of an educated family was I was able to sponsor four years of Andhra Pradesh with a population of rules like “suffixes beginning with a test of his love for something for which college education for one girl, and I am around two million. I was told that it had vowels.” Later on during the course of he had but a flavoring. To him, education in the process of sponsoring others. We at least a hundred municipal high the workshop, the sessions became more was the answer for a better life can all make a difference in the life of schools. and more interactive. economically, socially and spiritually. someone in need. For the little we give, our returns will multiply. The happiness I couldn’t wait to go to the local school, We conducted a spelling bee after the Migrating to New York, I became aware I felt on my fiftieth birth anniversary Sri Boyapati Siva Rama Krishnaiah completion of the workshop. Although of the social injustice permitted and celebration was the request I made for Municipal High School to meet kids who only a handful got high scores, there practiced against girls in India, the invitees to make a small donation to would be attending my spelling was a perfect scorer- Nurjahan Begum particularly the millions born to low and NSF on my behalf instead of a gift to me. workshop. The kids there learned from the ninth grade! middle class families. I was shocked and The response was humbling. English as a second language. We saddened that in a culture and country entered the school ground to meet with True to the ideals of North South the authorities that had met my grandpa Foundation, my dad insisted on several times over the past few months distributing participation certificates to Fundraising Events in preparation for the spelling workshop. all the children. The top ten children in The river of giving flows once again…Continued from page 13 We discussed the plan with Mr. Samuel, each grade received gifts and the assistant principal. I was nervous certificates. As for me, I was thankful to become when you grow up ?’ This was together old tennis pros and budding about conducting the workshop for over my dad and grandpa for making the followed by games well enjoyed by kids. stars and raised close to $1,000. 300 children. Moreover, as the medium workshop possible. I was also grateful This event raised close to $1,500. The of instruction was Telugu, I needed my for my association with North South event was coordinated by Srinivas Workshops were conducted in many father to translate everything in the Foundation. I hope that some day those Gudeti and ably supported by Dr. Raj different centers including course of the workshop to Telugu. kids from the municipal school in India Jayachandran. Compuware Corporation Massachusetts, Minnesota, Kansas, would emulate the NSF spelling bee and DTE Energy sponsored the event Ohio, Illinois, Louisiana, Pennsylvania We introduced ourselves to the children winners, and pursue their dreams of by contributing to NSF and Michigan. While the main reason saying that we were there to teach higher education. for conducting these workshops are to Other events: help the children prepare for the spelling * Anita is a 13 years old freshman at Fairfield Warde High in Fairfield, CT. The 2nd annual tennis tournament in bee, we were glad that some centers also Connecticut was once again a big raised money ($1,500) for India success. Games were held over 6 scholarships through this program. weekends and the event brought

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