AnimationXpress hosted the first edition of EduSpark Summit and Awards. The Summit followed a hybrid format – where 5 and 6 May observed the online summit which hosted around 50 eminent speakers. And on 14 May, the summit took place on ground at The Lalit, Mumbai. EduSpark Summit and Awards’ was presented by Utside, with Associate Partners Cosmos Creative Academy and Wacom India, and Industry partners Ramesh Sippy Academy of Cinema and Entertainment, Asifa India, Huion and Career Guidance Partner Creative Multimedia.
The awards honoured the institutes and the individuals who kept the AVGC education flag flying high. Before the awards ceremony, a lot of goodies were given by the partners like Wacom tablets, Creative Multimedia gave a book named Careers in Digital Media to students present. The EduSpark Awards felicitated the erudite with a stunning winner plaque and a shawl from AnimationXpress.
Here’s the complete list of EduSpark Awards winners:
Institutes
- Media & Entertainment Skills Council
- IDC School of Design
- National Institute of Design
- Toonz Academy
- Strate School of Design
- Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology
- Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute
- SXILL School Of Xperience, Illusion & Life Learning
- Whistling Woods International
- Aptech Limited
- Webel Animation Academy
- Native Puppets Animation Studio & Online Academy
- Zee Institute of Creative Art
- Explorra Education Pvt. Ltd.
- Backstage Pass Institute of Gaming & Technology
- IIT Guwahati Department of Design (DoD)
- Lovely Professional University
- Faculty of Journalism and Creative Studies, Jagran Lakecity University
- Annapurna College of Film and Media
- Wiztoonz Academy of Media And Design
- Monarch College of Arts and Technology, Berhampur
Individuals - Anuj Kacker
- Ashish Kulkarni
- Biren Ghose
- Chaitanya Chinchlikar
- Hanif Mohammed Marakkarackayil
- Late professor Raman Lal Mistry
- Nina Sabnani
- Phani Tetali
- RajaSekhar Buggaveeti
- Rajesh R. Turakhia
- Ranjitha Rajeevan
- Rishi Acharya
- Sanjay Khimesara
- Santosh Raskar
- Sathish Narayana
- Sekhar Mukherjee
- Shajan Samuel
- Shilpa Ranade
- Srinivas Sribhakta
- Subhash Chandra
- Tehzeeb Khurana
- Ujjwal Chowdhary