Heritage of Chennai - Multimedia Presentation Contest For Schools

This contest is held in connection with MADRAS DAY 2007 (Aug.22) which celebrates our city.

The contest encourages city school students to explore Chennai's history and heritage and present the topic of your choice in multi-media form.

Buildings and monuments, religious places and tiled houses colonies, forested areas and lakes, institutions - be they cinema houses, schools, business houses or banks - which are 50 or 75 years old..... any of these can be the subject of your presentation.
The contest is open to school children studying in classes 8 to 12.
A school can send only one team.

GUIDELINES for the contest:

1. Identify a lesser known landmark on which you will focus your project on and ask your school teacher to seek the approval of the organisers. Call 98405 44629 - Revathi

2. Familiar landmarks like the Central Railway Station or Ripon Buildings or Sri Kapali Temple will not be approved.

3. Once the project is approved do some research at the desk and then undertake a tour of the place to take pictures on the spot, notes and interview people who can give you more inputs.

4. Back at your desk, put the project together with pictures and the main points in the Power Point presentation capsule and explanation notes written on sheets of paper. (do not dump all info into the PP capsule).

5. At the contest, your team will take turns to make use of the PP capsule to explain your project by refering to your notes.

6. The presentation in PowerPoint on the approved theme will have to be done by all the three participants. It can be done in English or in Thamizh.

7. The duration of the complete presentation - PowerPoint and Oral - should not exceed 10 minutes.

8. Use of the standard design templates in MS Office 2000 / XP is only permitted. DO NOT download templates from the Internet.

9. The participating team MUST have three members and all the three members should participate in the oral presentation. Participants should be prepared to answer on-the-spot questions from the judges.

10. The PowerPoint presentation should be submitted to the organisers on or before Aug. 18, 5.30pm, in a Compact Disc (CD) . Address for submission - MYLAPORE TIMES, 77, C. P. Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet, Chennai. (Please courier the pack. It can also be hand delivered between 10 am and 5.30 pm)

11. The team should retain a copy of the CD and bring it to the venue of the contest. The organisers will provide for a PC and a projector at the venue to help you make a good presentation.

12. Contest is open to first 20 teams to register on first come serve basis.

13. The contest will take place on Aug. 22 from 9 am to 3 pm with a lunch break at about 12.30 pm. Please bring your lunch packs!

14. The best THREE presentations will be awarded prizes. All participants will be given certificates. The prize giving function will be held on the same day.

15. Prizes will be awarded based on quality of research / presentation of old/new pictures-visuals / presentation format and answers to the question posed by the judges.

PS: Since we are dealing with electronic products in the contest and some errors and problems may affect presentations, we are doing our best to avoid hiccups but the organisers should not be held responsible for such hiccups.