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Pandemic cancels foreign trip, students get laptops instead
The Greater Chennai Corporation handed over laptops to eight Corporation school students, who won a competition conducted under the ‘Wings to Fly’ initiative.
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A Chennai Corporation press release read that the competition was conducted among the students studying from Class 6 to 9, along with Rotary Club of Madras East and Foundation for Vocational Training. “In 2016, the students, who had won, were sent to Malaysia and in 2017, they went to Germany. In 2018 and 2019, they were sent to NASA in the USA and Singapore,” the release added.
The release added that due to COVID-19, the students, who won the competition, could not go to foreign countries.
“Following this, laptops were given to the students in an event held in the Ripon Building,” the release said.
In total, 4,000 students had participated in the elocution competition, of which 32 competed in the final round on November 19.
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