Coimbatore: A Isha Home School student, Pavansakthivel Vijayakumar of class VI received an individual medal for a perfect score at the Academic Games Leagues of America (AGLOA) 2015 national tournament in Orlando, USA.
Fourteen students from the Isha Home School (IHS) were among 1,000 participants in the Academic Games that were held from April 24-27.
Academic Games is a set of games in mathematics, language arts, set theory, modern logic and social studies in which players attempt to score over their opponents with complex strategies. It’s like playing chess but with mathematics, or set theory, etc.
IHS, whose Academic Games (AG) programme is in its ninth year, was the only school outside the United States to participate in this year’s nationals which marked AGLOA's 50th anniversary and only the second team from outside US to compete in the history of the nationals.
The IHS team, whose members ranged from ages 9 to 12, comprised one team that competed at the middle division (7th and 8th standard) and two teams at the elementary division (standards 6 and below).
The coordinator of the IHS AG program, Swami Jataja is an AG alumnus and three-time national champion. AG was introduced in the school as an effective learning tool to gain mastery in mathematics, language arts, and logic that are far more advanced than the school curriculum, he said.
