Springdale girl Akriti wins CYAC

More than 400 students from about 55 schools participated in the Lucknow city finals of the Classmate Young Author Contest (CYAC) 2006 held at La Martiniere Girls? College on Tuesday. The winners of the contest were declared and felicitated the same day.

More than 400 students from about 55 schools participated in the Lucknow city finals of the Classmate Young Author Contest (CYAC) 2006 held at La Martiniere Girls’ College on Tuesday. The winners of the contest were declared and felicitated the same day.

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Akriti Choudhary from Springdale School won the first prize, Himal Hazra from St Domnique College won the second and Army Public School’s Harsh Kumar won the third prize in the Classmate Young Artist Contest. Senior resident editor of Hindustan Times Chandrakant Naidu felicitated the winners. Eminent artist Vibha Saxena judged the contest.

In the Lucknow city final round, the participants were given six topics and they had to write a story on any one of them. The topics were categorised into three genres—mystery, thriller and fantasy.

The stories were judged on the basis of relevance of the topic, originality of idea, style and grammar, storyline and the reader impact.

Radio Jockey Rakhi Kishore conducted a workshop in which the students got to learn the various aspects of creative writing, including career options such as journalism, advertising and story telling.