Olympiad
Olympiad addresses the need to cultivate exceptional talent in various academic disciplines. These competitions foster healthy academic competition. At Shrut Kala Sabha, Olympiad competitions hold significant importance in the educational landscape for several reasons:
Encouraging Excellence: Olympiad provide a platform for students to showcase their academic abilities and excel in various disciplines - sutra, arth, kavya, tatva gyan, samanya gyan and more.
Promoting Critical Thinking: Olympiad-style questions require deep conceptual understanding. By challenging students with complex problems, Olympiad encourage critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and innovative approaches to problem-solving.
Fostering Competition: Healthy competition is a driving force behind academic achievement. Students from different paatshaalas compete within and between Paatshaalas. Competing at these levels is a source of pride and motivation for students to perform their best.
Cultivating Interest in Learning: Participating in Olympiad ignite a passion for learning and discovery. The rigorous preparation process exposes students to advanced concepts and topics beyond the standard dhoran, inspiring curiosity and a thirst for knowledge.
Recognition and Opportunities: Winners at different stages get gold, winner and silver medals. Just merely participation gives them Coins all of which gives them a shot at the Best Student Trophy.
Format
Prelims: Each Olympiad activity will have a prelims. The format of the prelims will be conducive for everyone to participate. 50 students per age group per activity will qualify for the finals. There will be fair distribution of students qualifying to the next round across paatshaala, city, state and zone.
Finals: In the finals, the students who have qualified will compete against each other.
Location
Prelims: Prelims are held in their respective paatshaala.
Finals: Chennai
In the future, we would like to invite paatshaalas across South India to host State Level competition.
Dates
Prelim: It will be held over the months in the academic year for different competitions
Finals: Finals will be held closer to the Annual day at the end of the academic year
Competitions
The competitions can be divided into Academic, Creative and Performing categories.
Academic
Tests knowledge of Jainism
Creative
Use imagination to make something new
Performing
Show-off talents on stage