RAVENSHAW CLINCHES TCS QUIZ

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BHUBANESWAR: The Ravenshaw Junior School won TCS IT Wiz Bhubaneswar edition here Tuesday. 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 walked away with an amount Rs 60,000 worth of gift vouchers while the runners-up represented by Sobham Panda and Naibedhya Dash from Mother’s Public School were rewarded Rs 40,000 worth gift voucher along with a specially designed trophy and medals. The six finalists will also receive an array of prizes from TCS ranging from Gym bag, OTG pen drive, Earphones, and Bluetooth speakers. The winning team along with a teacher/parent will be flown to Mumbai to contest in the in the national level finals. Over 800 students participated in the quiz which also witnessed school teams travelling from
Ranchi and Vishakhapatnam. TCS IT Wiz was open to high school students studying in Class 8-12. Each institution was allowed
to send a maximum of eight teams with each team consisting of two members. There was no entry fee. TCS IT Wiz this year focused on
four areas — Automation, Contextual Knowledge, Machine Learning, and Agile besides an exclusive round on TCS. The Quiz platform looked into the technological trends that are poised to have huge traction across the globe. Students who are a part of this quiz would benefit from understanding these technologies as they walk into their future. The top six teams from the written preliminary round were qualified for the regional finals. The prizes were distributed by the guest of honour Ashok K Meena, special secretary, finance, electronics and Information Technology, Govt of Odisha, along with Suresh G Menon, VP and GM, Eastern region, TCS. The Quiz was hosted by noted quiz master Giri ‘Pickbrain’ Balasubramaniam. The TCS IT Wiz 2017 will be held across 12 cities across IndiaAhmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Indore, Nagpur, Bhubaneswar, Kochi, Delhi, Mumbai and Pune.