250K Students Participated in Value Education Olympiad by ISKCON

New Delhi, January 29th, 2023 – The fourth annual Value Education Olympiad (VEO) , organized by ISKCON in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change, Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Directorate of Delhi, UN-Environment Program, and Govardhan Eco Village (GEV)was celebrated in grand fashion with a felicitation ceremony on January 29th, 2023 at the Chinmaya Mission auditorium in New Delhi.

VEO is an innovative and impactful educational program for students of Class 5th-12th that aims to cultivate six specific values(honesty, justice, integrity, altruism, equity, and altruism) essential for environmental conservation and tackling climate change. This year, the program which was made free of cost saw the participation of 252,000 students from 20 different countries.

The registered participants received a book titled ‘Future Ethic’ and were required to appear for an online exam of 1-hour duration. Additionally, students were challenged to come up with practical solutions to environmental concerns. In order to help students prepare for the exam, seven pre-recorded classes were posted on the website based on the 6 values. Each class was designed to develop a certain virtue in the students that went beyond an exam into life. The program aimed to inspire independent thinking, innovation, and ownership in participants, and to provide solutions to various environmental challenges and their causes.