Bhattarai wins ‘Best Finalist’ award at 15th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest

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KATHMANDU: Nikita Bhattarai, a Nepali student, has won the ‘Best Finalist' award at the 15th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest. Her Artwork is selected as one of the Best Art among 5,30,000 arts received from almost 78 countries around the world. The prize handover programme was conducted at United Traders Syndicate (UTS) Office. The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest was conceived in 2004 with a goal to enable children around the world to feel joy and shed importance on having dreams. Toyota Nepal has been participating in this competition for over a decade to bring this philosophy to the country. The global organisers have always had wonderful prizes, where eight out of all the participants win a trip to Japan, tour the facilities and experience the mobility solutions. [gallery columns="1" size="full" link="file" ids="27412,27411"] UTS has taken pride in winning the Best Finalist Award. “Nepal is a small country, but this is something that can put us on the map,” the statement issued by UTS said. Bhattarai has been selected as one of the eight winners from all around the world. Despite Covid 19 Toyota received around 5,30,000 pieces of art and all of it went through a tough selection with the help of artists, futurists, technologists, and engineers they sifted through all the work and picked 26 winners. UTS has offered congratulations to Bhattarai for winning the award for her artwork titled "Artificial Intelligence Based Car" at the art contest and thanked all participants around the country who submitted their artworks. “We hope for all the children to have a space in their minds that does not see boundaries and push to innovate and continue to make the entire country so very proud. We are always with Toyota to bring this platform to more children and increase, and promote their interest in art-related activities. We believe that this will give the children of our country international-level access as well as boost their level of confidence to compete with others,” the statement read. Likewise, Toyota on evaluation of the 15th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest stated, “We felt that a different and more expansive view of the world was being created in the artworks. We were impressed by the fact that diversity is becoming more prevalent among children and that they see more into the future than adults. We also think that the works reflect the times well. We think it is important for children to see the world in which they ride in cars, envisioning various dreams. Considering that computer graphics (CG) artwork also carries the fresh colours and dreams of children, we think it will be good to see a few more CG artwork in the future.” READ ALSO:

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