This year, we conducted the Safety Quest online on the 13th of November. The poster above was used for the invitation along with an FAQ. Thanks to our partners, Walnut Knowledge Solutions, and several well-wishers, the word spread across the country and also beyond. We had students in grades 6-8 from over 70+ cities from India and UAE. The major cities being Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Patna, Chandigarh, and AbuDhabi, Dubai, Doha.
We had a total of 1234 registrations of which 350 participants joined in for the event.
For those of you who wish to experience the quiz, check this out https://kahoot.it/challenge/003952769
As usual we strive to bring awareness to the students in a fun way. This time we leveraged the Kahoot platform more effectively, and it allowed us to create questions in different formats :
1) Multiple choice questions – where there may be 1 correct answer, or multiple correct answers
2) Type your answer – we made it a one-word answer, and allowed for typing mistakes
3) Arrange the options in order – where the 4 options could be moved around to create the sequence
Another good feature of Kahoot is that it logs the time to answer, and thus there is an automated method of ranking the correct answers based on “fastest finger first”.
The gamification also ensures that each participant sees the top performers on the charts, and their individual position vis-a-vis the leaders. This was also useful in engaging and enthusing the participants.
Students learnt about various aspects of safety : Road, Electrical, Fire, Cyber, Health, Environment
They learnt about techniques : Distress Signals, CPR, Creating a Floatation Device, Using a Fire Extinguisher
We included questions on innovative ideas from young children to inspire the participants, to let them know that they can make a difference.
We used videos to reinforce the learning.
At the end of the quiz, we asked the children to answer in one word “What is the 1 new thing that they learnt today?”. This is what the children responded with :
The worthy winners of the quiz were Ritwik Choudhary, Saaliha Bilal, Sanath Kothari, Gia Goel, Aditya Rajiv Ratnam
and Vidisha Swaika. Congratulations to all the winners!
Here is some feedback we received, which we thought was very heartening :
Aditya Rajiv Ratnam: regards to the Arundathi Foundation for doing such wonderful work. We are grateful for your enormous generosity and kindness to society despite your personal loss. I wish everyone in the Safety Quiz could properly interact with you and understand the story.
Saee Nimdeo: Thank you for the quiz
Yashaswini Vallurupalli: it was great
Parv Patodi: Amazing quiz
Diya Pawar: Amazing 😻
Tanvi Vallurupalli: It was fun
Rishabh Sehrawat: please conduct the next quiz as soon as possible
Anushka Shanker: wonderful quiz!
Pragyan Saluja: very nice I enjoyed and learned many things
Suveer Modi: It was an amazing quiz. I would love to play more quizzes like this!!
Ritwik Choudhary : Some questions were tough for me to answer, but was happy to learn so much new stuff
Saaliha Bilal : The content and format of the quiz were enjoyable. I promise to be an ambassador by spreading safety information with my friends.
Since many of the registered participants could not join us, we shared the link to the quiz https://kahoot.it/challenge/003952769
This has also been shared with the teachers who had helped us mobilize the students for the quiz. So far, 177 people played the quiz shared in this manner! We hope that anyone who comes across this blog post will do so as well.
A big shout out to Anagha Sridhar, Shrija Bhattacharya, N Shilpa of Walnut Knowledge Solutions. They played a big role in putting together the content for the quiz. And during the event, despite some technical glitches, they kept the show going, keeping the audience engaged all through!
We are grateful to Lakshmi Nair, and Underwriters Laboratories, who came forward to sponsor the prizes for the event. One of the core values of UL is that of safety science, and therefore we are especially pleased to have UL as a partner for SafetyQuest since 2017. A sincere Thank You!
Here are some pics from the online event.
