Over 800
students from various schools in the state capital took part in the TCS-IT Wiz,
India’s biggest Inter-School Quiz competition
organized by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) here.
The Quiz was
hosted by renowned Quiz Master Giri ‘Pickbrain’ Balasubramaniam
Teams from
Ranchi and Vishakhapatnam also participated in the Bhubaneswar Edition of the
Quiz.
The Quiz was
open for high school students from Class 8 to Class 12th.
TCS-IT Wiz
this year focused on four areas- Automation, Contextual Knowledge, Machine
Learning, and Agile besides an exclusive round on TCS.
The top six
teams from the written preliminary round were qualified for the regional
finals.
After five
rounds of quizzing at the Regional Finals, Priyam Panda and Shubham Hota from
Ravenshaw Junior School won the title.
The regional
champions this year were awarded gift voucher worth Rs 60,000 while the
runners-up represented by Sobham Panda and Naibedhya Dash from Mother’s Public
School were rewarded an Rs 40,000 worth gift voucher.
The winning
team along with a teacher and parents will be flown free to Mumbai to
participate in the National Finals.
The TCS-IT
Wiz 2017 will be held in 11 other cities
cities across India, namely Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad,
Kolkata, Indore, Nagpur, Kochi, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.
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