North South Foundation Congratulates Winners of Spelling, Geography, Math and Science National Competitions

When Snigdha Nandipati, the eighth grader from San Diego, California won the 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee, it has been a defining moment in the history of North South Foundation, a volunteer-run nonprofit organization based in Chicago. Snigdha became the fifth consecutive Spelling Bee champion by joining the ranks of Sameer Mishra, Kavya Shivashankar, Anamika Veeramani and Sukanya Roy, all of whom were also participating in the foundation’s regional and national contests. In fact the second place winner Stuti Mishra of Jacksonville, Florida and the third place winner Arvind Mahankali of Long Island, New York had the opportunity to hone their spelling skills along with Snigdha and several other bee contestants at the foundation’s national event held at San Jose State University last July. In the National Geographic Bee contests, NSF kids had an amazing run this year. Rahul Nagvekar from Sugar Land, Texas won the championship, while Vansh Jain of Madison, Wisconsin won second rank and Varun Mahadevan of Palo Alto, California finished third. MATHCOUNTS competition had several NSF kids advancing to the national finals held in Orlando, Florida. Ashwin Sah, a seventh grader from Portland, Oregon won the second place in the individual championship, while Niket Gowravaram of Acton, Massachusetts and Sarvasva Raghuvanshi of Naperville, Illinois were placed first and second respectively in the Team competitions. The National Science Bowl competitions conducted by the US Department of Energy also had several NSF children as contestants. Team from Bellevue, Washington consisting of Abhinand Sivaprasad, Aditya Murali, Suvansh Sanjeev, Tejas Bharadwaj and Gokul Gowri was placed third in the middle school category. Dr. Ratnam Chitturi, founder and president of the foundation congratulated the winners and said that the credit goes to the children, their parents and more than 1,000 volunteers of the foundation. North South Foundation has been a training ground for children of Indian origin in US for the past twenty years. Foundation conducts contests in Spelling, Vocabulary, Math, Science, Geography, Essay Writing and Public Speaking at 86 chapters across US during March-May every year. Top scorers in these contests are invited to the national finals held during summer. At the finals, high school students have the opportunity to also participate in Brain Bee, a competition in neuroscience. In 2012, more than 15,000 contestants participated at the chapter level, and about 1,000 will participate at the National Finals. In addition to the contests, NSF conducts workshops and online coaching to help children excel in studies. Through its activities, foundation raises funds to award scholarships for college education to meritorious children from poor families in India, who otherwise would have to abandon the pursuit of higher education. Last year, NSF provided nearly 1,500 scholarships and plans to provide 2,500 this year. For more information please visit the foundation’s website www.northsouth.org.

Colorado's scientist Dr.MS Reddy nominated to the Nobel prize

The Telugu Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) congratulates Dr. MS Reddy for being a nominee to 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The Telugu Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) had an immense pleasure of honoring Dr. Reddy as a chief guest in 2011 to give lecture and motivate Telugu community on how to foster entrepreneurship among Telugu's in greater Dallas area and around the globe. We are very proud that he lives in Colorado, whom we call as Cheese Reddy with a greater love and effection. Dr. Reddy is the author of several books like Keys to Winning, A to Z of Success, etc,. It is a proud movement for all members of Telugu Entrepreneurs Association (TEA) and all Indian professionals and Indian citizens living abroad and in India to know that Dr. M.S. Reddy (Dr. Malireddy Srinivasulu Reddy) has been nominated in excellent standing for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The other outstanding nominees for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize from U.S. include former President Bill Clinton, Microsoft Chairman and the world's richest man Bill Gates etc. To be nominated, for the Nobel Peace Prize, the candidate must be outstanding, exceptional, well established, and well recognized all over the world and must have contributed throughout his life, significantly, to improve the quality of life of the people worldwide, peace in the world through reduction of conflicts among nations, reduction of hunger through improved food production etc.,. This year's Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. M.S. Reddy, a billionaire scientist, who has contributed immensely to the world economy by over one trillion dollars through his scientific inventions, which had a significant impact to reduce the hunger, diseases, pollution, global warming, and human suffering in the world and thus to improve peace. A brief biography of Dr. M.S. Reddy: Dr. Malireddy Srinivasulu Reddy (M.S. Reddy), son of Jala Reddy and Sankaramma of Uppalapadu, Kovur (Taluk), Nellore (Dist), A.P. (India), received his B.V.Sc. degree (D.V.M.) from A.P. Agricultural University, Tirupati, A.P., India, M.S. and PhD. degrees from Iowa State University, U.S.A in food technology and microbiology with honors and distinctions. He serves as Chairman and President of U.S.A. based American Dairy and Food Consulting Laboratories (ADFAC Labs) and International Media and Cultures (IMAC, Inc.), Denver Colorado, with eleven manufacturing facilities in eight states. He has received over 100 national and international awards and honors from all over the world. The notable awards: Richard M. Hoyt memorial award from American Dairy Science Association; Outstanding Young Alumnus Recognition award from Iowa State University; Sigma-Xi Research award, Outstanding Scientist award from Washington, D.C. the presentation was made by the Prime Minister of India P.V. Narasimha Rao, Ronald Regan Gold Medal award from U.S. Vice President Honorable Dick Cheney at Washington D.C. Recipient of prestigious 2006 Bharath Gaurav Award, Hind Rattan Award; invited as a guest of honor to attend the 2005 inauguration of U.S. President George W. Bush and recipient of the first '2009' Veda Brahma award' and 2010 'International Dharam award' from the AAPNA (Association of Ayurvedic Professional of North America) for his worldwide patent on integration of Probiotics and Ayurveda as a treatment modality in the field of complementary alternative medicine. Dr. Reddy holds over 150 U.S. and international patents and has published over 70 scientific articles on dairy starter cultures, Probiotics, pharmaceuticals, and complementary alternative medicine and has written several books including 'A to Z of Success' and Compendium of Microbiological Methods (published by the American Public Health Association). He has served as a technical consultant to over 70 national and international companies all over the world.