Mallya Aditi International School
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| Established | 1984 |
| Location | Bangalore, India |
| Students | approximately 500 |
Mallya Aditi International School (M.A.I.S) is a co-educational private school in Bangalore, India. The school was founded by Anne Warrior in 1984 and is one of the most selective schools in southern India. The school has students from all over the world and its current principal is Sathish Jayarajan (2003 - ). Anne Warrior was succeeded as Principal by Ranee Noronha (1999-2002), who has since become the Principal of the Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai.
The school is named after Bangalore billionaire and Member of Parliament Vijay Mallya as a result of a generous endowment.
After it was built, the school's architect won several awards for designing the modern, minimalist lines of the school buildings. The buildings are "open" - corridors are not enclosed and lead to large, airy courtyards around which are several classrooms.
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[edit] The School
Aditi, as it is popularly known, has a broad curriculum for its elementary school students that is designed to acquaint them with both Eastern and Western culture and methods of study. Aditi students study Indian languages, namely Hindi and Kannada, but can also study English, French, or German. Western music, Indian dance and Indian classical music are also offered.
Part of the school campus
Examinations are held once at the end of each academic year for grades 6, 7 and 8. For grades 9 and 10, a choice between the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) is offered. For grades 11 and 12, a choice between the Indian School Certificate (ISC) and the Advanced International Certificate of Education (AICE) is offered. IGCSE and AICE are conducted by the University of Cambridge International Examinations - CIE.Students used to start to receive "real" homework from the 6th grade, however this age has been recently advanced.
[edit] Clubs and facilities
Sports facilities include basketball, football, cricket and volleyball. School starts at 7:55 a.m. and ends at 2:45 p.m., with a break at 9:30-9:50 a.m. and at 12.05-12:40 p.m. The length of these breaks has been reduced from the year 2006-07. There are three computer labs - these serve The Junior School, The Senior School and the faculty.Alongside these computer labs, there are two "Tech Hubs", which also serve Students and Faculty with computers and educational material. There is also the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology - an affiliated school - located on the Aditi campus. The school has also produced many critically acclaimed plays, musicals and concerts. Among the myriad of student clubs and organizations - such as the Model United Nations (students are always chosen to participate) - are many clubs relating to the arts. Aditi students run a Dramatic Society, Debating, Quiz and Chess Clubs, an acclaimed school choir, The M.A.I.S Film Society, The Photography Club and many other special-interest groups. The school is equally committed to excellence in the sciences and mathematics. An after-school Robotics Club (started and facilitated by Harvard-and-MIT-trained researcher, Shuchi Grover) meets once a fortnight and consists of many brilliant students; some of them winners of national awards.
Aditi has a rather undeserved reputation for lack of excellence at sports: the school's teams in football and basketball regularly perform well in inter-school events. It is the opinion of students however that the quality of the sports fields, in particular the football field, leaves a lot to be desired. Aditi's football field is less than a third the size of a true football field, with hockey-sized goals that aren't aligned to each other and an uneven mud surface. The small land area doesn't really allow for much expansion of the Physical education facilities. The school receives enough funding to keep maintain state-of-the-art educational resources and hence is able to maintain it's high standard of education.
[edit] Interact Club
Aditi is known across Bangalore for its proactive Interact Club, founded and supported by the Rotary Club of Bangalore.. A tradition at Aditi is Out of the Box, a well-known inter school competition run by the school's Interact Club, which attracts contestants from more than 20 schools. It was started in 2002 and has grown every year. The Interact Club also organizes an annual Retreat, in which club members attend an array of personal development workshops conducted by experienced professionals in the field. This year, the Interact Club has also planned a fund raising Music Concert, which aims at bringing together musical talent in schools and colleges around Bangalore in the hope of supporting the education of underprivileged children. The Interact Club also conducts several bake sales and personal development workshops throughout the year, and participates in other community-driven activities such as the annual Terry Fox Run and the collection of money for the National Association for the Blind.
[edit] Awards
In 2005, the school was awarded the prestigious Cambridge Fellowship by the University of Cambridge in England, in recognition of academic excellence among schools offering Cambridge qualifications. Only 20 secondary schools in the world have received this fellowship. In early 2005, Aditi also won the Intel Award for the Best Integration of Technology in Education 2004, from a pool of India's best schools.
In addition to this, Aditi has been one of the two or three schools chosen worldwide by the University of Cambridge to be prototypes in an experimental science exam (where the practical paper is completed through computer simulation). These schools were chosen based on their excellent academic record, and the results of the students in the board exams will decide whether or not the experimental paper will come into practice.
[edit] Prominent Graduates
Among recent graduates:
- Kruttika Nadig (Class of 2006) is a top Indian woman's junior chess player and is ranked fourth in Asia. Nadig also won fourth place in the World Championship 2004 (for girls under twenty years of age).
- Pooja Shah (Class of 2003) is an all india woman's cricket player. She has represented Karnataka and India on several occasions.
- Arjun Agarwal (class of 2004) was one of the all-India ISC toppers with an average of 98%, along with scoring 1600 and 2400 on his SAT I and SAT II. He is currently attending Stanford University.
- Saumyananda Sahi (Class of 2005) achieved 2nd place in the world in his Sociology A-Level exam even after doing the two year course in a single year. Sahi is an independent filmmaker. He is a student of philosophy at St. Stephen's College, Delhi.
- Sidhanth Kamath (Class of 2004) won the All India A-Level Award, for obtaining the highest marks in the examinations in the country. He is currently attending the London School of Economics, where he is the executive editor of the LSE student paper, The Beaver.
In addition, Aditi graduates have attended the best colleges the world over including but not limited to MIT, McGill University, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Queens University, University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Columbia University, Brandeis University, Indian Institutes of Technology, BITS Pilani, National Institute of Design, Harvard University, The University of Chicago, National Law School of India University, the National Institutes of Technology, PESIT and Rutgers.
