Regional Winners- Mr. Soo Siew Keong,Director-Enrichment, Singapore Tourism Board, Prajna Hebbar & Sidharth from Shardha Vidyalaya, Mangalore & Mr. Abraham Alapatt, Chief Innovation Officer ,Thomas Cook.jpg
Thomas Cook India‘s Travel Quest Quiz sees impressive participation from Bangalore students for its City & South Zonal Finals Over 25,000 students, 50 Bangalore schools participate in Travel Quest – India’s first National Travel Quiz 450 students shortlisted to compete and qualify for the City Finals- in Bangalore
4 Southern Cities compete for the South Zonals; Bhavan’sVidyaMandir (Eroor) Cochin emerges as the Zonal finalist and qualifies for National Round
Bangalore, 30th January, 2014: Thomas CookTravel Quest – India’s first national travel quiz for school students concluded its City and South Zonal Finals today at the Presidency School, Bilekahalli, Bangalore, declaring Prajna Hebbar and Sidharth. H.B from SharadhaVidyala, Mangalore the City Finals winner and Sidharth Suresh and Gouri Prasanth from Bhavan’s Vidya Mandir, Eroor, Kochi as the winner of the South Zonal Finals ensuring an entry to the National finals Present at the event were Mr. Abraham Alapatt, Chief Innovation Officer & Head – Marketing and Service Quality, Thomas Cook India, Mr. GiriPickbrain, Quizmaster, Greycaps India Private LimitedMr. SooSiewKeong, Director – Enrichment, Singapore Tourism Board, heads of Bangalore’s leading educational institutions, parents and students.
With over 50% of India under the age of 25 years and the country set to become the world’s youngest nation by 2020, this changing young demographic with growing aspirations seeks exposure to a global curriculum. With opportunities increasingly being built into the curriculum of progressive schools in India, Thomas Cook India’s Travel Quest sets out to serve these schools and enthuse India’s students via its fresh, vibrant travel quiz platform, promoting a fun and enriching approach to global learning – to help create a globally aware and confident young Indian.
For this unique initiative, Thomas Cook India has partnered with Greycaps India Private Limited – Asia’s largest on stage quizzing and knowledge services company, curated by noted quizmaster Mr. GiriPickbrainwith the focus being on History & Geography.
Text Box: Quick Facts: Thomas Cook Travel Quest
- 4 month extensive outreach starting mid-Oct 2014
- Extensive reach: 1100 schools across 16 cities, pan India
- Covering school students classes 6 to 9
- Preliminary written qualifying test followed by City Finals
- City Final winner compete for the Zonal rounds
- Zonal winners contest for the title prize at the grand finale in Mumbai on Feb 22, 2015
Bangalore City winners get a free experiential study trip to Singapore and South Zonal finalist get a free experiential trip to Picardy (France)
Following an extensive School Outreach programme that covered 60 educational institutions in Bangalore and across Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Kochi school level preliminary written tests were conducted and five teams were selected to compete for the City as well as Zonal Finalsover 25000 students from over 50 schools across Bangalore and over 90,000 students across the Southern cities from over 200 schools participated in the Thomas Cook Travel Quest quiz, with more than 1700 students qualifying for the City Finals. Top 4 City Finalists competed for the Southern Zonal title.The proud winners of the South Zonal team, Bhavan’sVidyaMandir, Eroor, Kochiwill now participate in the National Finals in Mumbai along with winners of the North, West and East Zonal Rounds.
The winning students of the South Zonal will get a free experiential trip to Picardy (France)while City Finalists of all 4 Southern cities will be hosted by Singapore Tourism Board for a fun and learn experiential study tour to Singapore.
Mr. Madhavan Menon, Managing Director, Thomas Cook (India) Ltd. said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of Thomas Cook’s Travel Quest, a first of its kind initiative for young Indians via our partnership with Greycaps. Experiential learning is the need for today’s young minds and travel is indeed the best teacher. Our Travel Quiz platform – Travel Quest, is our contribution to encouraging schools & young Indians to look beyond the classroom and conventional methods of learning.
He concluded, “For us at Thomas Cook India,the Thomas Cook Travel Quest is a strategic pioneering initiative that serves to nurture the passion for travel & learning of India’s next generation – its young explorers.”
Mr. GiriPickbrain, Quizmaster, Greycaps India Private Limited said, “In an era when the need of the hour is to equip our children to be globally savvy& prepared, Thomas Cook‘s Travel Quest Travel Quiz provides a wonderful opportunity and platform for schools to widen the knowledge horizons of Young Indians.”
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