By OUR STAFF REPORTER
Mussoorie, 25 Oct: Ishiita Maleta, a class 12 student of Wynberg-Allen School, here, secured 3rd rank in the ‘All India Albert Barrow Memorial Inter- School Creative Writing (Senior Category) Competition- 2024’.
The competition is hosted every year in the memory of Albert Barrow, the founder secretary of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, New Delhi, to provide a platform to showcase the creativity and linguistics skills of the students from affiliated schools.
Over the years, this competition has been successful in unearthing the talent that lies in the schools across the length and breadth of the nation. The competition also bears testimony to the fact that the written word has immense power, a power that many students have realised and used to their benefit.
The competition took place on 12 August 2024, simultaneously, at different venues all over the country. Ishiita participated in the competition in category I (senior category) at Brooklyn School, Dehradun, along with a large number of participants from the neighbouring areas. The topics for the competition were declared in the presence of the supervisor. The topic chosen by Ishiita for the competition this year was ‘Planet of Clones’. The word limit for the competition was one thousand.
Principal, Wynberg Allen, Leslie Tindale stated that, last year, Ishiita ranked 5th in the same competition.
Besides the medal and a certificate of merit, Ishiita was awarded a cash prize of Rs 2000 by the Council, which she decided to donate to an animal welfare society in school.
