College students showcase their story-telling abilities at carnival

College students let their inventive juices circulate on the ‘Story Carnival,’ a two-day story-telling occasion, hosted by Mahatma Montessori Larger Secondary Faculty, Baba Constructing right here.

Veteran storytellers Geeta Ramanujam, Okay. R. Vidhyaa and Rohini Chidambaran attended the occasion. Different attendees included storytellers from Russia, Kenya, Italy and Indonesia.

One of many highlights of the competition had been the floats that depicted a wide range of themes resembling epics, village folklores, fairy tales and tales revolving round birds, animals and oceans.

The carnival was filled with numerous parts together with guide honest, puppet-making, ‘Story Homes’ the place college students from the group of Mahatma Colleges narrated tales in numerous genres with vibrantly adorned wonderland-like settings.

College students competed in numerous inter-school competitions resembling function play, clay modeling, puppet-making, ‘Sing a Story’ among the many others. The rolling trophy was bagged by Virudhunagar T.S.M. Manickam Nadar Janaki Ammal (VMJ) Larger Secondary Faculty who additionally obtained a money award of ₹30,000.

Ms. Rohini known as for faculties to infuse story-telling points whereas instructing topic ideas since they assist college students study higher whereas Ms. Vidhyaa recommended the involvement of scholars and academics.