EDEX – Hayleys Lighting Sustainability Quiz 2016

EDEX Think Green and Hayleys Electronic Lightings signed a MoU for the upcoming ‘EDEX – Hayleys Lighting Sustainability Quiz’ on 3rd November 2015. The quiz would feature 50 school quiz teams from all around the country with the questions and answers prepared by environment and sustainability experts. This will not only be the first of its’ kind in Sri Lanka but also a novel experience for the highly competitive quizzing fraternity amongst schools and sustainability advocates. This event will try to fill the void of impactful and innovative campaigns to educate youth on sustainability and take the usual quizzing experience to a more focused space.

Coming in as an organizing partner of the quiz, is the Royal College General Knowledge Club with a history of over 30 years in the field. In addition to organizing the ‘Blue & Gold Inter School Quiz’, the longest running quiz competition in the country consecutively for 25 years, its ‘Quiz Team’ has enjoyed unprecedented success in schools’ quizzing arena.

Commenting on the initiative, Principal of Royal College, Mr. Upali Gunasekara noted that, “Royal College has been practicing sustainability concepts for a long time. These include several initiatives such as 5S implementation, waste segregation, biogas production, recycling and organic fertilizer production, run by collaborative efforts of students, academic staff and Old Boys. In recognition of these initiatives, Royal College has been selected as one of the top three finalists of the global campaign ‘Zayed Future Energy Prize’ 2016, in addition to winning gold at the National Green Awards in 2015. Combining all this and the prowess of the Royal College General Knowledge Club, we are happy to partner with EDEX and Hayleys Lighting in this valuable initiative”.

Initiated as an educational exhibition in 2004 EDEX is now a comprehensive platform offering end-to-end connectivity from education, skills, training, employment and entrepreneurship to sustainability. EDEX think Green and Green Zone at the Main Expo launched in 2008 aim to educate activate and engage youth towards sustainable living.

Commenting on the launch of the Quiz, Chairman EDEX Kamal Abeysinghe said ‘Creating awareness on sustainable living, especially among youth, is key to recognize ecological limits and use human ingenuity to find new ways to live within earth’s bounds. It also means taking individual action and creating public demand for sustainable development of businesses, and participation of policy makers. The EDEX-Hayleys Lighting Sustainability Quiz is the beginning of that process’.

Sudarshan Gamage, Director EDEX Think Green said “EDEX –Hayleys Lighting Sustainability Quiz, will take the format of a table quiz with five rounds of 10 questions each, focused on environment, resource management, renewable energy, sustainable development etc. We expect this would drive the participants to search and expand their knowledge on these time critical aspects”.

Partnering with EDEX, the other key stakeholder of this valuable and timely initiative is Hayleys Electronics Lighting (Pvt) Ltd, a member of Hayleys Group. Mr. M.S. Lakshminarasimhan, Managing Director of Hayleys Lighting noted that his company, as the sole agent in Sri Lanka for the world’s No.1 lighting brand Philips who are in the forefront of sustainable lighting globally, has been leading the drive to promote energy efficient lighting for decades with Philips’ CFLs and now the LEDs. Mr Lakshminarasimhan went on to say that, “Several initiatives were launched recently to drive the energy saving culture amongst the Sri Lankan consumer. The initiative by EDEX to educate, activate and engage younger generations on sustainable living as a means to drive the wise use of limited resources, fits well with the thinking of Hayleys and Philips. We are proud to be associated with EDEX and Royal College project for the furtherance of a cause of national importance”.

Rules and regulations of the quiz and the registration forms can be obtained by contacting the EDEX Secretariat (contact details given below). Duly filled registration forms should be sent to the EDEX Secretariat on or before 20th November 2015.

EDEX – Hayleys Lighting Sustainability Quiz 2016, EDEX Secretariat, Rajakeeya Mawatha, Colombo 07. Telephone : 0115521491

Kindly note that the registrations will be done on first come first served basis due to the limited capacity. EDEX Think Green will be confirming the participation of all the eligible school teams once the registrations are closed.