ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, DAGSHAI ACHIEVEMENTS (2019-2020) 1. Top Boarding Schools of India Ranking. APS Dagshai ranked in the Top schools of India Ranking 2018 in the 11th School Leadership Summit 2018 held on 12 Apr 2019 at Chandigarh to felicitate all the India’s Top School winners. Dr S K Mishra Principal attended the Felicitation ceremony. 2. Education World Award. The school has been awarded with a memento and Certificate for standing 3rd in co-educational Boarding Schools in Himachal Pradesh by Education World on 28 Sep 2019 at the Leela Ambience Gurgaon Hotel & Residences Gurgaon, Haryana. 3. India’s School Merit Award-2019. Army Public School Dagshai is ranked No. 10 in India, No. 2 in Himachal Pradesh and Ranked No. 1 in Dagshai in the category – India’s Top 20 boarding schools’ in a survey conducted by Education Today Co. Bengaluru. Dr S K Mishra, Principal attended the award ceremony on 14 Dec 2019 at the Chancery Pavilion Bangalore. 4. Brainfeed School Excellence Awards 2019-20. Brainfeed, a monthly educational initiative launched in April 2013, has been catering to the needs of K-12 educators and students. After the success of the first magazine, Brainfeed Group began publishing four additional age-specific magazine – Juniors, Primary-I, Primary-II and High – with a view to share knowledge with all stakeholders including pupil, educators, parents and school managements. With a view to encourage educators and school managements to excel in their academics practices, Brainfeed has been organizing seminars, conferences, workshops and honouring them with awards like Acharya Devo Bhava and School Excellence Awards. Brainfeed provides nomination forms to schools desiring to take part in the ‘School Excellence Awards’. Scrutiny of the applications is done in two phases, i.e. market survey & inputs from prominent educators, to assess the overall performance of individual schools. APS Dagshai has been awarded with a Certificate and memento for being in Top 500 Schools of India, achieving excellence in quality School education towards the development of the society among top Himachal Pradesh Schools. 5. Trip To NASA. 12 students of Army Public School Dagshai accompanied by Mr Deepak Saraswat, PGT Computers went on a 10 day educational trip to the United States of America on 14 Nov 2019. In the course of their ten days visit, they visited New York, Orlando and Washington DC. The students visited various famous and historical monuments during their visit. 6. Board Results – Class - X & XII (2018-19). CBSE Board results of classes XII and X declared on 02 May and 06 May 2019 respectively are enumerated below: - Class Students 95% & 90% – 80 % - Between Below API appeared and above 94.99% 89.99% 60 to 80% 60% passed X 68 02 05 30 30 01 252.9 XII 91 04 15 35 37 --- 281.3 7. Board Result of Classes-XII and X (2019-20). In class XII, result is 98.41% as against 88.78% of CBSE affiliated schools. Total 63 students appeared for AISSCE 2020 in which 04 (6.34%of total strength) students scored more than 95%, 14 (22.2%) students scored more than 90% and 27 (42.8%) students scored more than 80%. School Annual performance index is 306.35 which is all time best in the history of APS Dagshai result. In class-X, total 68 students appeared, of which all are pass, 05 students (7.35% of total strength ) scored more than 95%, 12 (17.64%) scored more than 90% and 34 (50%) students scored more than 80% API of Class X is 305.9 as against 252.9 of last year. Class-X School API is first in Western Command. 8. Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM) Online Exam. Under the guidelines of CBSE, a national talent search online examination named Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan was started in 2016. Since its inception, the students of Army Public School, Dagshai have been participating in this examination. The aim of VVM has been to provide a platform for inculcating and generating interest in pure science & mentoring students to take up careers based on science. Every year students are chosen for the state level based on their ability & scientific temperament. Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM) online exam was conducted in the school Computer Lab on 24 Nov 2019. 19 students from classes VI to IX participated in the exam. 9. VVM State Level Result. Vidyarthi Vigyan Manthan (VVM) is an initiative of Vijnana Bharati (VIBHA), in collaboration with Vigyan Prasar, an autonomous organization under the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an institution under the Ministry of Human Resources and Development. VVM is a National program for educating and popularizing science among school students of VI to XI standards. VVM aims to identify the bright minds among the student community, who are keen on subjects related to science. 41 students of our school participated in School Level VVM exam out of which 15 students qualified for state level examination. State level VVM exam was held online on 28 June 2020. 12 students of our school participated in this exam and three students were selected for National level examination. (a) SRIJAN DEBNATH S/o Nb Sub Swapan Debnath - Scored first position in Class VI category. He will be awarded with cash prize of Rs 5000/- , certificate and memento. (b) PRAVEEN KUMAR S/o Nk Raj Kumar Singh - Scored Second position in Class VIII category. He will be awarded with cash prize of Rs 3000/- , Certificate and memento. (c) SHIVAM KUMAR JHA S/o Hav Sujit Kumar - Scored First position in Class –X category. He will be awarded with cash prize of Rs 5000/- , certificate and memento. 10. Silverzone English Olympiad – Level 2. The Silverzone English Olympiad (level 2) was held at APS Dagshai on 06 Feb 2019. A total of 15 students qualified for level 2 after clearing the level-1. Results – 02 Gold medals & Pierre cardin pens, 05 silver medals & Pierre cardin pens and 01 & Pierre cardin pen. 11. Silver Zone Olympiads. Silver Zone Foundation is a veteran of International education Olympiads with more than a decade of experience, excellence and popularity. Silver Zone Foundation is a registered trust (Registration No. 1533) an educational organization with headquarters at New Delhi, to promote learning beyond school curriculum among the students (Class-1 to XII), in an innovative way: there by to realize their potential and develop their skills for a bright and enterprising future. Silver Zone International Olympiad are conducted in ten different subjects i.e. Computer Science, Mathematics, Science, Social Science, English, French, Hindi Talent hunt, General Knowledge and international reasoning and aptitude Olympiads. These Olympiads are conducted at three levels: (a) Level-I – School Level (b) Level-II – State Level (c) Level-III – International Level 12. Level-I of Silver Zone Olympiads for English, GK, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies were conducted in the school on 06, 08, 13, 19 and 21 Nov 2019. A large number of students participated in these Olympiads. 13. Silverzone Olympiads. Silverzone Foundation is a veteran of International education Olympiads with more than a decade of experience, excellence and popularity. Silverzone Foundation is a registered trust, an educational organization with its headquarters at New Delhi, to promote learning beyond school curriculum among students in an innovative way thereby to realize their potential and develop their skills for a bright and enterprising future. Silverzone International Olympiads are conducted in various subjects ie. Computer Science, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, English, Hindi, General Knowledge and international reasoning and aptitude. These Olympiads are conducted at three levels. APS Dagshai has conducted the following Olympiads: - (a) International Olympiad of Science. An International Olympiad of Science (Level-1) was held at Army Public School, Dagshai on 19 Nov 2019. 165 students from classes V- XII participated in this Olympiad. This Olympiad was presented by Silver Zone Foundation and organized by Science Olympiad Foundation. Students of APS Dagshai won the following medals: (i) Gold medals - 06 (ii) Silver medals - 06 (iii) Bronze medals - 06 (b) Olympiad of Science (Level – 2) exam was conducted on 13 Feb 2020 in which 02 students participated. (c) International Olympiad of English Language. An International Olympiad of English was held at Army Public School, Dagshai on 06 Nov 2019. 107 students from classes V- XII participated in this Olympiad. This Olympiad was presented by Silver Zone Foundation and organized by English Olympiad Foundation. Students of APS Dagshai won the following medals: (i) Gold medals - 08 (ii) Silver medals - 09 (iii) Bronze medals - 08 (d) Olympiad of English (Level – 2) exam was conducted on 12 Feb 2020 in which 10 students participated. (e) International Olympiad of Mathematics. An International Olympiad of Mathematics was held at Army Public School, Dagshai on 13 Nov 2019. 113 students from classes V- XII participated in this Olympiad. This Olympiad was presented by Silver Zone Foundation and organized by Maths Olympiad Foundation. Five student of APS Dagshai won Gold medals. (f) International Olympiad of Social Studies. An International Olympiad of Social Studies was held at Army Public School, Dagshai on 21 Nov 2019. 74 students from classes V- X participated in this Olympiad. This Olympiad was presented by Silver Zone Foundation and organized by Social Studies Olympiad Foundation. One student of APS Dagshai won Special Achievement Certificate, Gold medal and Elegant pen. Three students won Special Achievement Certificate and Gold Medals. One student won Silver medal and Special Achievement certificate. (g) Smart Kid GK Olympiad. Smart Kid GK Olympiad was held at Army Public School, Dagshai on 08 Nov 2019. 108 students from classes V- X participated in this Olympiad.