The Delhi Regional Round of Brain Bee 2012 organized by Society for Neurosciences was held at Army Hospital(R&R), Delhi Cantt. On January 7, 2012. Prerna Garg and Rishi Madan of class XI represented DPS RK PURAM in the quiz on neurosciences. Prerna Garg was crowned winner and Rishi Madan was the first runner up. They have now been invited to participate in National Brain Bee, to be held in Bangalore in April, 2012.

An Inter-school Hindi Debate Competition was held on 22nd December, 2011. It was hosted by Lion’s Club. 18 Schools participated in this competition. Eminent professors were the Chief Guests and judges. Avichal Bhatnagar of 11th V and Arjun Kumar of 10th M participated in the event. Avichal bagged the prize of the 2nd Best Speaker for which he has been awarded a trophy and Rs. 3000 in cash.

The 8th edition of the Modernites Invitational Inter-School Squash Tournament for the Mohini Virendra Singh Trophy, was played between 6 December, 2011 to 9 December, 2011 at Modern School, Barakhamba Road. The DPS R.K. Puram Squash team played this tournament and was placed Over-all runners up in the Under 19 category.

The Captain Mayank Sharma(center) Rohan Vasishtha (left) and Arnav Vohara (Right) was awarded with a special MVP(most valuable player of the tournament) trophy for winning all matches in this tournament.

DPS R.K.Puram sent 6 students to participate in a robotics competition held as part of “B.O.T-2011” – the Interschool Computer Symposium was held at Mayur School, Noida, on 15th and 16th November 2011. – Team-1 comprising Mayank Sharma, DhruvBedi and Pranav Saksena won the 3rd place in the manual event and team-2 comprising Viraj Rattan Mehra, Tushar Agarwal and Dhruv Bedi stood 3rd in autonomous robot event.

The International Herald Tribune Writing Competition was held on 17 September 2011 at the British School. The topic was ‘A letter to a leader addressing an issue of national/international importance’ and was to be written in at least 1000 words. Shivang Sethi of Class 11 and Ananya Khaitan of Class 12 were awarded First Runners Up and Second Runners Up respectively.

The Modern School Old Students’ Association’s Annual Inter School Debate was held on 28th November, 2011 at Modern School Barakhamba Road. DPS RK Puram was adjudged the Best Team, and Shayon Sengupta of Class X won the Best Speaker Award.

The Alliance Française de Delhi, had organized an Inter-School Group Song competition and Drawing competition on Wednesday, 16^th November 2011 to celebrate Childrens’ Day.

Eleven of our Class VII students participated enthusiastically in the Group Song Competition and our school was awarded the First Position in the event.

The students were awarded certificates and books.

The list of particiapnts is as follows:

1. Aadya Singh
2. Soumya Sofat
3. Sanidhya Sharma
4. Ridhima Narang
5. Daksh Sharma
6. Harsh Tokas
7. Rishabh Ghosh
8. Vaishnavi Bhaskar
9. Aamil Ahuja
10. Bhavya Pant
11. Shivani Sen

The Rotary Club Inter-school debate was held on 14th October, 2011 at The Ashoka Hotel.

DPS RK PURAM was adjudged the BEST TEAM second time in a row, with Archit Krishna getting the award for the BEST SPEAKER and Abhishek Chandra won the SECOND RUNNER-UP speaker award. The team also won cash prize of Rs 8500/-

A debate was held at JIMS on the topic, ‘Can the youth play a vital role in fighting corruption?’ for classes 11 and 12. Kartik Ashta (speaking for the motion) and Sonali Chauhan (speaking against the motion), both from class 11, secured the Second position in the Best Team category. In addition, Sonali Chauhan also won the first position in the Best Speaker category.

Shreya Kataria, Anant Tyagi and Shreya K.R from X-K, DPS R.K.PURAM bagged the 3rd prize out of the 16 teams clearing 4 rounds of written and oral Questions in the Inter-DPS ‘Sanskrit language festival’ held on 3rd September 2011 at DPS Faridabad

Also in Sanskrit recitation competition for classes VI- VIII, Adya Verma and Uddipta Bhattacharya of VI-C, DPS R.K.PURAM won the 3rd prize out of 21 teams. Under the guidance of their Sanskrit teacher, Mrs Amla Thukral they were able to win the trophies and certificates.

Sahiba Bali and Ishita Mishra of class XIth W, were runners up in a Laureate contest. It was a Parliamentary MUN at Confest 2011 held in Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj representing the state of Assam as delegate and Chief Minister, they debated on the agenda, ‘de-regulation of diesel.

An Inter School (Zonal) Competition of Hindi (Self Composed Poem) was held on 12th September 2011. 25 Schools participated in this programme. Avichal Bhatnagar of XI –V Participated and received the consolation prize.

Convent of Jesus and Mary celebrated ‘Zenith’ an inter-school literary festival on August 29. The chief guest was Dr Kiran Bedi. The theatre competition was for students of class XI. The students of Delhi Public School, R.K Puram outshone their opponents and won the best play as well as the prize for best actor. The play was a parody on ‘Romeo and Juliet’. It was extremely hilarious. The debate for class XII was held on the topic: ‘A strong Lokpal Bill : the answer to corruption’ where the students of DPS R.K.Puram picked up the 2nd best speaker award. Delhi Public School, R.K.Puram got the Sushma Seth rolling trophy as well.

Students from DPS R.K.Puram participated in the Annual Inter DPS Science and Technology Festival 2011 held at DPS , Faridabad. In ‘Operation Science’ a debate was organized on the  topic  ” Science and Technology have led to increased  human vulnerability in daily life”. Anvay Tewari of Class IX J and Shubhankar Mukherji of VIII H won the Second Prize.

In the Science Quiz QUIZMOZ on the topic “Science of Natural Disasters”,

Harsh Kahlon  and Kartikey Tripathi of IX E won the First Prize. A PowerPoint presentation on the pros and cons of Scientific Agricultural development by Suchet Randhawa ,Aastha Ganjoo  and Kanika Kalra  of Class XII was also appreciated.