Delhi Public School students turn journos

Students of Delhi Public School (DPS) have shown their creativity and innovation and brought out attractive newspaper in the newspaper designing contest, which left the judges awestruck by the imagination of the students.

The management of Delhi Public School (DPS), Khajaguda, had organised newspaper designing contest for its senior secondary wing on Wednesday. The idea was to make the new age app following techie kids understand the lasting impact of a newspaper. 

Students were provided guidelines and themes and based on which each group had to create their edition.

From researching news stories, to writing headlines and sourcing pictures, students got a taste to know what it takes to put together a newspaper. The students edited the stories, framed editorial, wrote headlines, sourcing the photographs and drawn the cartoons. 

Students got busy with their respective teams to write down the headlines, place the advertisements strategically, to insert the Sudoku puzzles etc. and the Satirical Cartoon clip.

The judges had a difficult time to judge the best among these fantastic specimens. Independent Communication Consultant, who has two and half decades of experience in the industry,

Sanjay Kumar said that the students were creative and have expressed their innovative ideas by bringing up newspaper layout. He said that there were 16 entries and more than 50 per cent of the designs were creative and very interesting. 

“It was a great thing that the students showed their creativity within a short timeframe. The quality was so good that it took about three hours to go through the works done by the students,” said Sanjay Kumar.

At the end of the contest, students were seen exchanging their ideas, opinions thus making the whole exercise successful.