On a high note...

A six member team from our college participated in an American Quiz -
Rock with the Presidents at Hard Rock Cafe, DLF Saket.

Apart from Bharati College, it featured Delhi colleges including St. Stephen’s College, Jesus & Mary College, Lady Sri Ram College, Motilal Nehru College, Indraprastha College, Zakir Husain College (morning), Kamala Nehru College, Rajdhani College and Dayal Singh College.

Lydia Barraza, cultural affairs officer at the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, directed the 40-question challenge about U.S. Presidents. The questions were a good mix and got the mind going.

The team performed extremely well and was showered with praises from all those who were present-students from DU colleges and officials from American Centre alike.

Though the team lost by a narrow margin, one of its members - Shivani Sharma, a final year student of English Honours got the chance to be a proud owner of an Apple I-pod shuffle and a DVD named Dave. She won them for different reasons- I-pod for answering all questions on Obama and DVD for writing an interesting fact about him (When he was young, he used to work in an ice cream parlour and so hates ice cream).

This is what she has to say-
" I got to be a part of a great team ! Also, thanks to the college and our professors for providing us with this great opportunity and encouraging us to be the part of the Quiz. The college is always there to support and encourage students; it all depends on them whether they take these opportunities or not."

She is all smiles and further says "I am not so much into gadgets and so I have gifted the I-pod to my brother. He is being really nice to me these days."
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Other proud members of the team are Annica Sodhi, Archana Arora , Ankita Kathuria , Swati Bakshi and Anupam- all final year English Literature students.

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A post can be seen on the blog of the famous international daily newspaper -
the Wall Street Journal :

http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/10/21/ahead-of-obama-visit-a-crash-course-in-us-presidents/?mod=google_news_blog

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Back home, The Hindustan Times featured a column on this event and included some of the other interesting President facts that Shivani had submitted.
Here's the link: http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/lifestyle/Obama-s-cheer-girls/Article1-616410.aspx
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Here's another link for the pics clicked that day :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassynewdelhi/sets/72157625083989083/
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congrats ! Go team !