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ISTE to conduct award programme for schools
Our Bureau
Chennai
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March 31
THE International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) India, a joint venture of Future Schools Foundation and ISTE, the US, is hosting an annual Presidential Awards Programme for schools.
Mr Annamalai Muthiah, Chairman, Future Schools Foundation, said that the President, Mr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, inspired this award programme. It is aimed at taking pockets of excellence found in some schools to a larger community of schools.
The programme is open to all State board, Central board, international, national open schools and special schools. The first summit is to be held at Pragati Maidan, Delhi in 2006 where the National Awards will be announced. Future Schools Foundation, which is part of the Chettinad Group, and ISTE will contribute towards the corpus of the award. The award-winning schools will have to give away half of the proceeds towards schools in the community, he said.
The categories of potential excellence are to be identified by educators at a series of symposiums to be held in Delhi, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Uttaranchal where ISTE India has established itself. The symposiums are to be held over 10 days starting from April 1 in Chennai, followed by Coimbatore, Kochi, Bangalore, New Delhi and Dehradun, he said.
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