Reliance World talent hunt for National Digital Elocution Competition

Reliance World, the retail arm of Reliance ADAG is mobilizing talent  from across 1100s school in the country through the National Digital Elocution Competition (NDEC 2009). The National Digital Elocution Competition (NDEC), currently in its fourth year, is an annual creative talent hunt to promote creativity amongst school children using cutting edge technology.

Reliance World is leveraging the online medium and its technological back-end to mobilize school talent in smaller towns and cities. It is a known fact that students from smaller towns and cities are constrained due to unavailability of adequate resources or financial constraints to participate in talent hunt programmes at the national level. Using technology, Reliance World ensures that talented school students from smaller towns and cities like Kollam, Pala, Pattanamthitta, Changanacherry, Kottayam, Trivandrum, Calicut, Kochi, and other places like  Raipur, Amravati, Sanghli, Gandhinagar, Jamnagar, Howrah, Guntur, Rajamudhry, Salen, Thanjavur, Dharwaad, Hubli, Palghat etc, besides major towns and cities can participate in NDEC 2009 by submitting their video entries online at the nearest Reliance World outlet.

At NDEC 2009, school students are given the opportunity to match their elocution skills on a platform that integrates cutting edge technology and interactivity. Students are encouraged to use interactive platforms like VDO Contest and Video Conferencing to showcase their talents across boundaries.

In Kerala, Reliance World is targeting participation of over 600 students from more than 63 schools across the State. Nationally, Reliance World is expecting over 10,000 entries during this year’s contest. Sunil Buch, Head, Marketing & Corporate Sales, Reliance World said, “The biggest USP of this national talent hunt is that it allows students across the country participate irrespective of their location, thus providing a level playing field to compete.  The digital platform of this contest offers great width and engagement levels not only to students but parents and teachers as well.”

NDEC 2009 is open to students in Class V to X with Class V to VII forming the Junior Group and Class VIII to X forming the Senior group. The topics for this year’s contest are “If I were a PC” for Junior group and “Staying safe on the Internet… my online playground” for Senior Group. All students can visit any Reliance World outlet and complete the registration process. All submissions should be made in English and not exceeding 2 minutes. The last date to submit entries is January 20, 2009.

All entries will be open for online voting on msnindia.com throughout the month of January. Reliance World will announce the 26 Semi Finalists (13 in each group) in the first week of February. The National Semi-finals will be held on February 9 where 10 finalists (5 in each group) will be selected. The Finals of the event will be held in February 2009. The semifinals & finals will be held using Video Conferencing at Reliance World in the respective cities.

This year, Microsoft is partnering with Reliance World to organize NDEC 2009. Through this partnership, Microsoft will be enabling students in over 1100 schools to experience the fun, excitement, safety and security delivered by the Windows platform.