Hyderabad students shine at Olympiad Awards 2018-19

Hyderabad: Three students from Hyderabad made their parents proud by garnering International Rank in the SOF Olympiad. Over 50000 schools from 1400 cities across 30 countries participated in SOF Olympiad exams during 2018-19 and around 50 lakh students appeared in the Olympiad.

In this Olympiad around 1.92 lakh students from Hyderabad participated out of which four students shine by grabbing 1st rank. International rank 1 was bagged by Abhinav Peddi of class 04th from Niraj International School got a gold medal. In International General Knowledge Olympiad, International Rank 1 was begged by Nikitha Sonankar and D Tejaswini of class 06th from Swarnanjali High School got gold medal. In International English Olympiad, International Rank 1 was begged by Riya Susan Tony of class 07th fromThe Future Kid's School got Silver medal.

Science Olympiad Foundation organized a felicitation function to recognize & award the International winning students of Olympiad exams held during the Academic year 2018-19. Award function held at New Delhi . During the function, the top 3 international rank holders from classes one to twelve for the 6 Olympiad exams conducted by SOF were awarded.

On the occasion Chief Guest, Justice Dipak Misra, Former Chief Justice of India was the chief guest. Addressing the students, he said that courage is the mother of all virtues, if you don't have the courage you possibly don't get different virtues. If you have courage no matters what happen whatever the condition is but your mind will work. Speaking about Olympiad he also said that Failure is a challenge and Olympiad teaches to fight those challenges. He also said that every Indian citizen must respect the law of India. The first motto in the life should be not going to be afraid by any kind of challenges..

The awards included: International rank One 60 awards. - Each winner awarded Rs.50,000/, a gold medal, Merit Certificate, International rank Two 60 awards. – Each winner awarded Rs.25000/, a silver medal, Merit Certificate, International rank Three 60 awards. – Each winner awarded Rs.10000/, a bronze medal, Merit Certificate and gifts each.

On the occasion, Michael King,, Director Examinations, India, British Council, Ranjeet Pandey, President, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India and Mr. V Ramaswamy, Global Head TCS iON were also present as guest.