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VANCOUVER - Three junior high school-age students from India will be visiting Canadian high schools in British Columbia and Ontario later this month (May 2001) to exchange knowledge on developing school websites. The students, ages 13 and 14, are the winning team in a website contest, chosen from among entries from 400 Indian schools.
With an accompanying teacher, they will visit a new high-tech school in West Vancouver - Rockridge Junior Secondary - and the Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, an international high school in Victoria. They will also be visiting schools in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario.
The SchoolNet India Websites Contest 2000 is a prestigious national-level competition organised to recognise the best talent in the country. It is open to 2500 schools in India. 400 schools from ten cities took part in this contest, which encourages schools across the country to create their websites through the inspiration, experience and knowledge of their students in Grades 6 to 10 (10 to 16 years old).
Part of the prize for the winning team is an educational trip to Canada being facilitated through COL International --an affiliate of The Commonwealth of Learning, an international organisation headquartered in Vancouver.
The winning team is from Sanskriti Civil Services School, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi. The Students are Manisha Prakash, 13, Nimay Donde, 14, and Rupinder Sabharwal, 14. Their accompanying teacher is Kavitha Punjala.
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