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Mindpower displayed

Memorising numbers and dates seemed to be like a piece of cake to them.

PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK

In the limelight: The Wonder Kids

An atmosphere of excitement prevailed among the students as they answered the questions posed by their principal. They did not feel any stage fright while speaking in front of hundreds of people. For students of “School for Wonder kids”, it seemed as much fun and excitement as playing with toys.

With the comp

The students exhibited equal ease while working on the computer applications- paint, power point, excel, flash, photoshop, C-language as in cursive handwriting in a “Mind Power Exhibition” organised by the school at Swarna Bharathi Indoor Stadium. Children from classes of pre-kindergarten, lower kindergarten and upper kindergarten could answer questions on State capitals in the country and those of the other countries. The programme was compered by the students and the school principal M. Vani Sri. After the inaugural, the schoolgirls performed traditional dance on earthen pots while holding candles in both the hands balancing a tumbler on the head.

Most of the students were comfortably able to memorise the dates of the birth and the phone numbers given to them at that very moment and repeat them. The students wrote the cursive handwriting book. They repeated the words given by the audience forward and backward with ease while others prepared the school logo and showed their ability on the computer the keyboard.

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