More school kids are becoming IT savvy, keeping pace with the recent trends in the IT sector.
In the ICS IT WIZ 2007 inter-school quiz contest held recently in the city, sic teams made to the top from the 1000 odd students who participated in the prelims.
The finalists knew the original logo of Wikipedia, recognised Kevin Rollins, the ex-CEO of Dell, on the screen among many trivia posed to them!
After a close contest with St. Jude’s Public School, Nilgiris, the team from the National Public School, Gopalapuram walked away with the first prize. Kushal Bhandari and varun K. Agarwal of the NPS team won a bagful of prizes including a laptop each, at the eand of the tiebreaker question.
The other city schools who made to the finals are the teams from Chinmaya Vidyalaya. Maharshi Vidya Mandir, Padma Seshadri Bal Bhavan, Nungambakkam had another school from the Nilgiris, Laidlaw Memorial School.
TCS IT WIZ quiz launched first in 1999 conducts annual IT quiz for school children during July – Aug. every year.
Contact : The Quiz Co-ordinator, Tata Consultancy Services, Tidel Park, 12 floor, ‘A’ Block, Taramani, Chennai – 600113