Safety Quest 2023

This year’s Safety Quest was held online on November 26, 2023.
If you haven’t experienced it, I encourage you to go through the quiz here : Safety Quest 2023 on Kahoot

Each Question and Answer is followed by additional information that we hope will help in developing a healthy respect and positive attitude towards safety and safety science. I am sure it will improve your Safety Quotient!

We had 374 students attending from various places : Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Goa, Udipi, Mangalore, Bangalore, Ernakulam, Coimbatore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Brahmapur, Kolkata, Varanasi, Gurgaon, Delhi. It was quite fantastic to see this pan-India participation, especially from some of the smaller cities! And we also had a few participants from abroad!

We also have a pretty even distribution across grades 5 to 9. This is also heartening because the sooner the children develop a positive attitude towards safety, the better it is!

This time, we incorporated a few statistics into the quiz to sensitise the students. For example, after the question on seatbelts and helmets, these charts were used to emphasise that the use of these devices makes a very big difference.

We also try to make the questions relatable to the children. As an example, rather than teach the children about class F fires and the type of fire extinguisher that is suitable, we had a question on kitchen fires triggered by overheated oil in a frying pan. And we aimed to teach them what they could rely on and could be found right in the kitchen: Salt, Baking Soda, A lid to smother the fire!

Interspersed in the quiz were examples of how young school children have taken initiative or provided inspiring ideas to improve safety.

Winners
All participants were actively engaged in the quiz, and the top 5 were from Bengaluru

• Kalkyn Thapa (Sharanya Narayani International School)
• Sooryanshi Raut (DPS BE)
• Sukrit Sivaprasad (National Public School, Yeshwantpur)
• Trivikram Kesavaram (Sishu Griha)
• Aditya Rajiv Ratnam (National Academy for Learning)

Congratulations to the winners!

Winning Caption

Prior to the Safety Quest, we also ran a small Caption contest on Instagram.

There were several interesting captions, and the winner was Sukrit Shivaprasad who combined wordplay with a strong message on safety.

This is his caption.

 

 

 Feedback

This word cloud has inputs from participants capturing what they learnt

And here is specific feedback from participants:
Aditya Rajiv Ratnam: 3rd time I am participating. It is always educational and very inspirational about how tragedy can be transformed to help others. Thank you and thanks to the Arundathi Foundation
Manasvi Rai: It was fun and educational
Rishita Patra: It was really good for us. Thank you
Atharva Tripathi: it was very informative quest thank you for informing us about saftey measures
Sion Fernandes: It was a good session tbh. Along with the quiz, I got some knowledge of some safety things:)
Nida Maryam Aqhila : it was a great way to make us know about the different safety guidelines. Thank you Arundhati foundation and qshala for such a great quiz!
Tanuja Kumari: We really enjoyed and learnt
Thahiya Hanan: Thank you so much it was absolutely lovely
Aadit Sharma: thanks to the team for a great quiz
Afiya: It was a lovely quiz for me
Aditya Thakur: It was a pleasure to join and learn. Really a fantastic session.
Sharv Dhume: Very nice session of Safety Quest. Truly enjoyed it. Learnt many new things.
Aarav Dhume: Loved the Safety Quiz. I learnt a lot from it.
Atharv Faldessai: It was a very nice quiz to learn safety, and it was enjoyable too.

Thank You!
Thanks to all the students whose active participation always makes the difference.

We are extremely grateful for the fantastic support provided by QShala.  Komal did a fabulous job with the overall planning and program management, Akshath and Vrukshi developed and fine tuned the content, Hakim created the graphics, Shilpa and team did a superb outreach, and Quizmaster Raghav who pitched in to compere.

A few screenshots