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THE SPIRIT OF COMPETITION

DPSI students are fierce competitors and even the pandemic couldn’t sully their
spirits. We watched students engage in competitions with great fervour and emerged

victoriously. Here are a few of the highlights.

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DP 2 participated in this event. Results were declared followed by mark their collective successes. Ms. Rima
an expert session on ‘New Age Photography’ by Mr. Viveck Vaswani. Singh and Ms. Gunjan Tomar accepted the
award on behalf of the DPS International

The Heritage School Gurugram community. It was a proud moment for us
being a Microsoft Showcase School.
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theme we were given was social justice for which we had to submit
a skit by our drama group and a band performance by our music Ms. Rima Singh and Ms. Gunjan Tomar
group. The final entries in the form of videos were live-streamed for accepting the award at the award ceremony
public viewing on the host school’s YouTube channel. Even though
we did not win first place, we did not let this break our spirit and — Editorial Team
instead saw it as a great learning experience.

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