Transforming young minds – the Tokyo Cement All Island Quiz 2015
View(s):Tokyo Cement, for the second successive year, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Swarnavahini, is presenting the Tokyo Cement All Island Quiz.
Bringing together students from around the country, the competition empowers young minds to strive for academic excellence and encourages a mastery of diverse fields of knowledge, the company said this week.
Season 2 is already underway with the schools qualifying for the second round representing geographically widespread locations including Colombo, Trincomalee, Galle, Puttalam, Hambantota and Ampara. Initially launched in 2013, the Tokyo Cement All Island Quiz is innovative in its approach – it offers the largest cash prizes in any local school competition – amounting to Rs. 5.2 million; brings together a growing number of school children from ethnically diverse backgrounds, promotes knowledge acquisition, and inspires thousands to strive for academic recognition as individuals, as members of a team, and of course as students of the school they represent, the statement added.
Billy Walpola, Marketing Director at Tokyo Cement described the broader long term goals of the quiz, saying, “at Tokyo Cement, we constantly strive to improve the quality of our performance, be it in terms of our products, our technology, our people and our greater social responsibility. This national quiz competition is our contribution to improving opportunities for scholastic excellence and human capital formation. In essence, we strive to contribute to nation building, through a deliberate investment in young people”.
Sixteen schools qualified for round two of the quiz – R.K.M. Sri Koneswara Hindu College – Trincomalee, Bulathsinhala National School – Bulathsinhala, Visakha Vidyalaya – Colombo, D. S. Senanayake M.M.V. – Ampara, Royal College – Colombo, Kalawana National School – Kalawana, Debarawewa M.M.V. – Hambantota, Dharmaraja College – Kandy, Richmond College – Galle, Ferguson High School – Ratnapura, Thurstan College – Colombo, St. Joseph’s Balika M.V. – Kegalle, Zahira National School – Puttalam, Pushpadana Balika College – Kandy, St. Anne’s B.M.V. – Wattala and St. Joseph’s Balika College – Gampola
The Tokyo Cement All Island Quiz airs every Sunday between 5.30p.m. and 6 p.m. on Swarnavahini.