AndhraNews.Net - Classmate Young Author Contest 2003

New Delhi: September 2, 2003

Stage One- Two themes will be given to all the schools. Students interested in participating in the competition will have to pick up one theme and write a story based on it. Each school will appoint a Teacher co-coordinator who will have detailed guidelines on how to evaluate the stories. The judgment criteria across the three stages will be creativity, originality, coherence, style and grammar of the story.

Based on the evaluation, each school will recommend two best entries for the second stage.

All participating students will get samples of the Classmate notebooks free of cost and a certificate appreciating their efforts.

Stage Two

All the short listed students from different schools in each city will be invited to participate in the city finals at a central venue. The city finals will again offer the opportunity for the students to pick one theme from the two themes given by the Classmate Young Author Contest to write a story of 2500 words in four hours. The Teacher co-coordinator of each school can guide the students for one hour for helping them trigger their thoughts.

Each city will have a panel of three judges-a head of a leading educational institution, a teacher of literature and a Literary/Theatre icon. The panel will select the three best stories from each city for the national finals.

All participating students will get certificate of appreciation from ITC Limited and The Activity.

Three winners from the City, who would go for the National Finals would be given Gift vouchers for books worth Rs. 2000 each.

Stage Three-National finals

The national finals to decide the Classmate Young Author 2003 will be conducted in an innovative way in two distinct phases. In the first phase, the stories written by the 24 city winners (three winners from each of the eight cities) will be given to a panel of four eminent personalities. Based on the scores awarded individually by the judges, eight young authors will be short-listed for the national finals.

In the second phase, each of these eight young authors would be invited to spend a day with an identified jury of the panel to discuss his story and share his vision and ambitions. This interaction is aimed at providing the jury an insight into the personality of the finalists thereby helping him identify the winning author. The jury shall then meet to decide who eventually is declared the "Classmate Young Author 2003."

Each of the National Finalists would be given Gift vouchers for Books worth Rs. 6000. The panel member guiding these young authors would help advise the books for these budding authors to read.

All the Finalists would then be invited to a Grand Ceremony, where the Young Author would be recognised and set upon his path of further accolades as an Author, by a leading personality from the public arena.

In addition to the opportunity to interact with leading authors, the Classmate Young Author Contest also offers an innovative grand prize to the winner. The Classmate Young Author 2003 will be awarded a four-day trip to Paris-widely regarded as the �art capital� of the world due to its tradition of creative genius in different forms, with his/her guardian wherein he/she will be given an educative tour of the city.

Press Release by: PIB/

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