Warm Greetings from Legacy School!

Our Grade 9 learner, Chirag participated in the Karnataka Institute of Cricket tournament and got awarded with the best player of the match.

He has always been an inspired sports person and continues to do so. He has been going to the Karnataka institute of cricket for 10 years now and dreams to be a professional cricketer representing India and recently won the BICC championship (U-16).. 

“Playing cricket wouldn’t have been possible without my parents and teachers’ continuous efforts. Whenever I missed a day due to my cricket commitments, the teachers made a point to revise the topic I missed. I am grateful to my teachers and everyone associated with the school committee.”

Meah turned 12 and got selected for Legacy School’s first basketball team in 2018; this lit her spark for Basketball. The icing on the cake was when she was picked for the Karnataka State U-13 basketball camp. 

But Meah met rejection when she was not selected for the Karnataka team. So along this journey came the life lessons of learning to handle losses, to deal with injuries, and then loss of practice and game time due to the pandemic. Meah believes that “basketball teams are made up of fighters who play fair and hard for the love of this beautiful game”. 

From writing scripts, poems and songs, playing the guitar and drums, singing and acting, being keen to participate in public speaking events, and giving back to society, Meah clearly has not had enough and wants to achieve great things in her journey.

Tejas Deshpande is an IBDP merit scholarship receipient who found his passion for the law in the first MUN he took part in, years ago. Then, Tejas won at numerous university-level conferences across the world, including an opportunity to represent India and publish two papers with students from across 80 countries. He also engages in Moot Courts, to further study the law and publishes his understandings in his academic blog, LawLabs, while also simplifying benchmark cases and covering in depth the impact of AI and technology on Law. Tejas aims to revolutionise the world of law with AI & Machine Learning, and dreams of a world with an autonomous legal system. 

Tejas is also an avid music lover, a pianist, a guitarist, a certified DJ and a self-taught music producer, whose music has crossed over 40,000 streams worldwide.

‘Curiosity drives passion’, testifies Nikhil Henry, startup founder and IBDP student of Legacy. He has been awarded a Merit scholarship for his commitment to academic excellence and contribution to the school community. 

Establishing a product based startup (Sunny Whale) at age 16 and being named ‘Inspired Student of the Year’ at the Global Education Connect Summit 2021, Nikhil continues to develop holistic technology-driven solutions for his community as Student Council President.Through his many years at Legacy, Nikhil details his source of inspiration as his ever encouraging mentors and his awe-inspiring Student Council President precursors.

Rich with experiences, IBDP learner, Nikhil, pursues the fusion of technology with human-centric innovation in the journey towards a holistic and progress-driven entrepreneurial community.  

Rhea Roshan, Grade 7 has been pursuing her dream to become a professional Squash player.  She has won the Karnataka State Squash Championship 2021 in Girls Under 13 Category. She has dominated the State Squash tournament by remaining the unbeaten Champion of the year 2019 and 2020. As a school we have given her complete support to excel in her sport by collaborating with her parents to find a scientific method to develop her overall skills.

Rhea enjoys the sponsorship of Decathlon – OPFEEL for Squash Equipment. She is passionate of her sport and maintains her utmost focus in scholastics.

“Though Squash is an individual sport which is quite demanding physically and mentally, I am glad to have a wonderful team which includes my Coach, my School, my sponsors, my nutritionist and my parents who work very closely with me. This Journey is super fun and I enjoy it thoroughly.” – Rhea

“Age, truly is just a number”, says Pranav Nutalapati, Tech enthusiast and IBDP student of Legacy.

If you ask around, you are not likely to find a lot of seventeen year olds who have had a chance to represent their country, in the largest skill based competition in the world. So how did the youngest ever participant at WorldSkills Kazan 2019 go from being on the Tech Team of his school to winning a silver medal for India? When asked, Pranav has a five year long story to share.

In a journey that spanned five years and three iterations; despite the competition’s minimum age being 23, Pranav was one among the 48 representatives of India. One of the two medalists awarded at the competition, Pranav these days, is found back in class or his favourite lab at Legacy.

IWith 16 year old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg being named the ‘Person of the Year’ by Time Magazine in 2019, it is inspiring for most adults, the scale and the impact the youth of today is able to have. At Legacy, it gives all of us great joy to see how sensitive to global issues our learners are.

Johanna Hashmi,our student from Grade 11 at LSB, is one such young environmental activists of the city. As someone who has been and continues to take an active part in raising her voice for the cause that she passionately believes in, Johanna has taken part in the global environment protest of Bangalore, to bring to the notice of authorities locally and globally, the gravity of the current climate scenario. An active participant in raising awareness in the school and her own community, or with her passionate involvement in the #fridaysforfuture efforts in Bangalore, all of us are proud of Johanna and continue to do our bit in helping her support this global cause.

“Not only does it keep me fitter, but I also feel happy that I am not adding to my city’s traffic and pollution woes…Moreover, I feel proud when I receive compliments and praise from people as I swish past them!This makes me fly higher or rather cycle faster!”

Nikunj Sharma, IBDP Student and passionate cyclist.

A Bharatnatyam dancer who moved from an alternative education to the IBDP curriculum, Nikunj has been cycling since the age of 6. Consciously choosing to leave a smaller carbon footprint behind, Nikunj cycles to school everyday and in his own words, is trying to do his bit for the environment. Where he would have left a carbon footprint of 3,016 lb of CO2-e per annum by taking a bus or driving to school with his dad, Nikunj today, leaves a carbon footprint of 0, in his daily commute to school.