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Mastermind School
Mastermind School is a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It recently ranked as the number one English school debate
offers English-medium education to students from play club of Bangladesh. On February 10, 2011, MMDS host-
group age to grade 12, leading to the GCE O-Level and ed a national championship within its own campus, with
A-Level examinations, held under the University of Lon- the participation of 48 teams. MMDS also participates
don External System and the Edexcel examination board. in a range of various international debate competitions.
The main buildings are located in Dhanmondi, with a In July 2011, Team Mastermind was ranked among the
branch in Uttara. As of 2007, the school’s principal is top-16 teams at the Asians Schools Debate Championship,
Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed, who is also the senior physics at Seoul. As of August 2011, MMDS got the honourable
teacher at the school. The school is very strict in Disci- mention for debate at CMS, Lucknow, for a Biotechnology
pline. The school has over 3000 students, and 300 teach- festival. The year of 2011 saw MMDS reaching the Grand
ing staff. The school also has a Debating Society, Sports Finale of every domestic debate competition and having
Club, a Newsletter Club and a Community Service Club. at least two of its debaters ranking among the top-5 na-
[1]. [2] It runs on the British Curriculum (GCE). The stu- tional debaters at every tournament. The cost of both
dents of Mastermind have shown excellent progress, in domestic and international competitions are entirely fi-
home and abroad alike. As of August 2011, Mastermind nanced by the school itself.
School won "The Most Versatile School" award at the Mastermind School is also immensely popular for
Biotechnology Fest, Hosted by City Montessory School, in hosting one of the largest school Pohela Boishakh Mela
Lucknow, India. (Bengali New Year Festival) at Bangabandhu Internation-
Mastermind School provides extra-curricular activi- al Conference Centre and a spectacular graduation cere-
ties of only Debating and Community Service. The school mony to bid farewell to its graduates at BICC on 14 and 13
clubs are run by an executive committee, carefully se- April respectively, every year.
lected for each club. Neera Habib runs the administration in absence of
Every year the Mastermind Community Service Club school Principal Syed Fakhruddin Ahmed, who spends
(MMCSC) takes part in various charitable works, includ- most of the time in Canada.
ing charity food sales, paying regular visits at Ashiq
Foundation (a rehabilitation centre for under-privileged
cancer-affected children), collection of winter clothes for
References
charity distribution, a blood donation camp, etc. [1] The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 156
Mastermind Debating Society (MMDS) marks among [2] "The Daily Star" Sad Incident in school
the most successful school debate clubs in Dhaka and was
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