Battle of the Best: Vision 2020 - Grand Finale of Hyderabad’s Biggest School Competition

Gray Matters organises the Grand Finale of Hyderabad’s Biggest school competition “Battle of the Best: Vision 2020”

TOP 5 CITY SCHOOLS BATTLE IT FOR “GRAY MATTERS’ CHIEF MENTOR” SAINA NEHWAL IN HYDERABAD’S
BIGGEST INTER SCHOOL COMPETITION

In a unique competition organised by Gray Matters, 5 progressive schools were selected from over 100+ participating schools to present the vision for their school in 2020 to an eminent panel. The event titled “Battle of the Best” was an initiative by the school rating company, Gray Matters, to encourage school leaders who are running affordable private schools, to look beyond day-to-day challenges and to plan how they are going to develop their students to face tomorrow in a world of ever changing demand. It is a one of a kind competition that mandated participation from the school principal and teacher along with two of their students.

After clearing exciting preliminary rounds, the 5 finalists - Hymavathi School, Sreenidhi Concept school, Lohi & Little Angels School, Ashok Memorial Chanakya School and Mount Mercy School, battled for the title of the best school and to win Ms. Saina Nehwal as the ‘Gray Matters Chief Mentor’ for a period of 1 year. The schools underwent three elimination rounds which included presentation by a team of students, teacher and school leader, student learning outcome assessment at the school and the final round included a presentation and an interview by a panel of expert judges.

Mr Pradeep Sharma, the CEO of Gray Matters India has congratulated all the participating schools and has lauded their performance. He said, “Gray Matters has always set a high benchmark when it comes to learning outcomes, school performance and now a new benchmark for school’s vision. We always value innovation and try to be a trendsetter in the education sector for others to get inspired. This competition has been an effort in the similar direction and we have plans to take it national very soon. We thank Saina Nehwal for associating herself with this initiative to motivate and inspire the school management. We are committed to the goal of improving learning outcome in schools and help them achieve their 2020 vision.”

Gray Matters India is a social enterprise that aspires to transform the landscape of school education in India using assessments and analytics to drive data based decisions and outcome based monitoring in affordable private schools. To this end, School Rating Program was incubated under Gray Matters Capital, a U.S. based social enterprise fund in 2009 and recently funded by Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF) to fuel growth. Over past 4 years Gray Matters has worked across Hyderabad, Delhi & Bangalore impacting, over 650 schools, 300,000 students, 10,000 teachers and 100,000 parents