Huge kudos to all students and families who participated in the Panacea Challenge!! We are so excited about this initiative and the tremendous participation from all of you. This entire challenge stemmed from an idea Dr. Balu Natarajan had in mid-March and, just a few months later, we were able to announce our Grand Champions. We were beyond thrilled to showcase our top 6 submissions and award the grand champions’ charity of choice their prize winnings $2500, $1500 and $1000, so generously donated by Dr. Natarajan.

After the unveiling of the Panacea Challenge, the response we received was far beyond anything we had imagined. All of the artwork, essays, and videos submitted were EXTRAORDINARY. The judges sure had a hard time as everyone’s work was an incredible display of enthusiasm, knowledge, and innovation. The determination, passion, and teamwork imbued in each submission is what truly captures the spirit of this challenge, and is exactly what we hoped to inspire within our students and their families. We had entries from kids as young as kindergarten!

We hope you all had a fun and enjoyable experience participating in this challenge - don’t forget to keep applying curiosity and creativity in all of your pursuits and congratulations to all the Champions!!

Awards and participation certificates:

• All winners will receive an email with the certificate within the next 2 – 3 weeks
• All participants will be able to download and print their participation certificates right from the login profile used to submit the registration

Additionally we had an award for Fan polling for ART category among the top 10 semi-finalists for Junior and Seniors and we had a tremendous response with polls received from over 60+ countries!