Triumphant Moment for AP Schools at Wipro Earthian Awards 2024

Winners from Andhra Pradesh included: Andhra Pradesh Model School, Mahanandi: They explored biodiversity by surveying local plants and animals, discovering links to climate change, and researching wild edible plants. Their research was enriched through interviews with farmers, and local centres for agricultural support. They also created a biodiversity mural using local dyes.

MJPAPBCWR Girls School, Annamayya: They focused on waste management through a scavenger hunt, emphasizing the five Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Refuse). Their visit to the Kalikiri dumpsite inspired school projects like "Best out of waste".

Anurag Behar, Chief Executive Officer, Azim Premji Foundation, and Narayan P.S., Global Head of Sustainability and Social Initiatives, Wipro Limited, and Managing Trustee, Wipro Foundation, felicitated the winning teams with certificates and cash prizes.

Narayan P.S., Global Head of Sustainability and Social Initiatives, Wipro Limited, and Managing Trustee, Wipro Foundation, said, “The annual Wipro earthian awards is the culmination of the 14th edition of Wipro’s long-running program that seeks to ignite interest and foster learning in young minds on humanity’s unique relationship with nature. Bringing students and teachers together from schools spread across the country, the Wipro earthian program is designed to generate action-based learning that celebrates the underlying connectedness of the individual with the larger fabric of community and nature. We continue to be inspired by the spirit of resilience and optimism we see in our young citizens as they get ready to face the multiple challenges of sustainable development the world faces.”

The Wipro earthian program is one of India’s largest sustainability education programs for schools and colleges. The 2024 edition of this program received over 1,500 project submissions, of which 23 winning and 43 shortlisted entries were selected by an independent jury. The teams from the winning schools demonstrated a deep understanding of biodiversity, waste and water, through a combination of activity-based learning programs and written essays.

Since 2011, Wipro earthian has engaged with over 50,000 schools, 4,000 colleges, 2,00,000 students, and 40,000 teachers. This year, participation remained high with more than 1,500 submissions from schools and over 700 from colleges. Support from Wipro’s education partners, including CEE, CPREEC, Wild Ecologues, IIT Madras, IIM Bangalore,state governments, and educators in the SEN, has expanded the program’s reach.