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Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala wins state-level TCS WIZ 2015
The duo of Siddarth B Rao and Upamanya Dutta from Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala, SR Nagar stood victors of state TCS WIZ 2015 state level contest and they will soon be competing with their peer teams in the national finals in Mumbai. TCS WIZ 2015 has taken place on Friday at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, King Koti and 467 schools from all over the city have participated in the contest.
Hyderabad: The duo of Siddarth B Rao and Upamanya Dutta from Sri Chaitanya Junior Kalasala, SR Nagar stood victors of state TCS WIZ 2015 state level contest and they will soon be competing with their peer teams in the national finals in Mumbai. TCS WIZ 2015 has taken place on Friday at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, King Koti and 467 schools from all over the city have participated in the contest.
TCS IT WIZ 2015 is held across 15 locations in India – Ahmadabad, Bangalore, Bubaneshwar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune and Vishakapatnam.“This is my third TCS IT WIZ contest and it feels great to win it, we have won last year too but could not compete with the other final national teams as it was very tough; but this year we are looking forward to win the national’s”, says Siddarth B Rao.
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Upamanya Dutta ,a BiPC student ,credits TCS WIZ team for his newborn interest in the digital technology which has won him a gold medal at the state finals. “I first participated in my tenth standard where we were state finalists and after that we emerged as state champions two times in a row, I inculcated the digital knowledge for winning the TCS WIZ” he shares.
Runner up team Priyansh Shandilya and Aakash Shoma hail from Sri Chaitanya School and are in tenth standard. They are equally excited about them being runner-up and wish to be the victors in next year TCS WIZ. V Rajanna, Vice President and regional Head of TCS-Hyderabad, speaking on the occasion said, “Children have done exceptionally well and 15 to 17 year old kids having this level of digital knowledge is a great deal”.
Chief Guest of the event, Jayesh Rajan, Secretary, IT, Electronics and Communications, Telangana government congratulated the victors and participants of the quiz and awarded the victors membership in the T-Hub, which is an eminent think tank established in the IIT campus.
TCS IT WIZ is a knowledge initiative started in 1999, is the biggest inter school IT quiz in India for students of class 8 to 12. The quiz aims to build awareness and emphasise the importance of IT skills. The quiz platform works as an effective supplement to the computer science and IT, as most of the questions researched for the quiz and beyond academic areas compelling the students to look beyond the text books.
By:Vaishnavi Girish
