Kerala Samjam Model School (KSMS) won the JJ Irani Award for Excellence during the Tata Education Excellence programme's (TEEP) 10th Annual Award function organised at Tata Auditorium, XlRI. The school crossed the 600 mark and won the prestigious trophy. Nandani Shukla, principal, KSMS received the trophy.
Baug-e-Jamshed was also felicitated for crossing the mark. While JH Tarapore School and Tarapore School were felicitated for Outstanding Achievement of Excellence in Education.
Dr S Radhakrishnan former chairman ISRO, was the chief guest for the occasion. A total of 56 schools had participated in the TEEP programme this year. Most of the schools also participated in other TEEP initiatives such as EQUIP (Educational Quality Improvement Projects), Innoteaching (Innovation in Teaching methods), Pankh (Student led improvement stories) and Pearl (Best Practice Sharing).
N K Sharan, vice president, Tata Quality Management Services, informed that schools had different opportunities to participate in the excellence journey. He mentioned that besides Regular Assessment , EQUIP , and PEARl ,a school could also participate in Innoteaching ( for teachers ) and PANKH (for students).Schools from underprivileged background can now also undertake the excellence journey through SARAl Programme .
Earlier in another function held in the afternoon, Dr S. Radhakrishnan participated in a dialogue session with students and teachers of Jamshedpur. In an exciting session , the renowned scientist , fielded over a dozen questions from students on a wide range of topics like leadership skills ,space debris management , learning from failures and critical challenges of the Mars project.