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Stepping Stone makes the day for grandparents, teaches kids to bond

Grandparents' Day was celebrated on October 20 at Stepping Stone pre-school in Navipeth. The aim of the event was to bring joy and happiness to the senior citizens. It started with tiny tots decked up in "Dada-Dadi" attire giving roses to the elderly and receiving their blessings. There was a "Teddy Bear" race and "Sunflower Race" in which children as well as grandparents took part. There was also a music and dance event where both the children and grandparents participated. It was followed by a musical chair exclusively for the grandmothers and grandfathers. The event was held to inculcate family bonds and values in children.

Talking about the reason behind celebrating grandparents day, Rajni Deshmukh, Principal, Stepping Stone pre-school said, "Nowadays, people often tend to ignore grandparents. Due to the nuclear family system, kids hardly know the importance of grandparents. We wanted to make the child realize that it is fun to be with grandparents. It was also a happy experience for the grandparents."

4 'City Priders' enter final, 1 returns with 1st prize for electricity idea

A project by Pune student Yash Mandlecha of City Pride School has bagged him the first prize at the national BrainCafé Budding Scientist Contest 2012 last month.

He was earlier in October selected in the state level 'BrainCafé Budding Scientist Contest 2012'conducted in Kalyan. His project was on production of electricity from cotton plant. In the state level competition, along with Mandlecha, three others from City Pride School, Spriha Bhowmik, whose project was a 'lemon battery', Anish Deshpande, who had project on saving water and electricity and Eeshita Kakde, who had come up with a project on ISBR STB plant, had been selected for the final.

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