Hosting the NEO and more...

GWEC, besides its own annual programs, participates and plays host to programs hosted by other institutions working in the environment conservation sector. One such program is the National Earth Olympiad organized by Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative (BYEI).  GWEC has been a partner organization for the National Olympiad and Greenherald International School was the venue for the school rounds of the competition in 2012 and Dhaka Divisional Round for 2013 and 2014.

Below are some of the images of the event:

Registration for NEO at the School Ground by rashif95

Registration rounds of the event taking place at the school venue with the help of volunteers from GWEC 

The NEO Divisional Round at the Hall by rashif95

Divisional rounds of NEO 2014 taking place at one of the three exam halls/auditoriums of the school.  

Coincidentally, students from Greenherald have been doing exceptionally well at this particular Olympiad, we had numerous students ranked in the top 15^th positions in the national rounds of the event in 2012 and four of our current students and two ex-students made it to the top 15^th in 2013, who were selected to participate in a camp organized by the Dhaka University Geology department to prepare the students for the International Earth Science Olympiad that took place in Mysore, India. Much of these accomplishments can be attributed to the participation of our student in similar annual intra-school Olympiads that are organized on subjects such as geography, environmental management and earth science with the help of our ever-enthusiastic faculty members who act as mentors and supervisors for the event.

Six GWEC Members at the NEO National Round by rashif95

Six of the top fifteen candidates are former and current students of our school.

Dr. Sen Gupta, Dr Dilshad Begum and Ms. Amy Gonzalvez - Adjudicating the CONFAB Seminar by rashif95

Our faculty members adjudicating presentations for a confab seminar on ‘ Mitigation measures for effects of climate change.’

The Olympiad Exam at School Hall by rashif95

Intra-school environmental science Olympiad taking place at the school.

Compiled and Reported by:

ABHIJEET BALL AND RASHIF AL-MAHMOOD