The eighth two-day annual National Level Science Contest was conducted recently for school students at Vellore Institute of Technology. Founder and chancellor of VIT, Dr G Viswanathan, handed over prizes worth Rs 3 lakh along with the certificates to the winners.
Organised by VIT every year, the National Level Science Contest gives a platform to the school students to demonstrate their talent in their area of interest. Competitions and innovative projects were displayed during the course of the two-day contest. Around 564 students from 33 High Schools and Higher Secondary Schools from Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka and Kerala participated in various events.
Around 70 teams took taking part in working models event, 42 teams in idea presentation, 59 teams in poster presentation and 62 teams competed in the quiz contest.
S Dhananjayan, Sanjay B and Dhruv N of Shristi Vidyashram, senior secondary school, Vellore, won the first prize in the quiz contest and received Rs 15,000 cash prize, while P Greeshmanth, M Avinashand Ch Bhavadeep of St Mary’s Public School, Nellore, AP, won the second place & received Rs 10,000 as cash prize.
In the quiz contest for students in Class XI and XII, Anand, Krishna Rajmohan and Suhail of Bhavans Vidya Mandir, Kochi, Kerala, won the first place and received Rs 20,000 as cash prize, while the second prize with a cash award of Rs 15,000 went to Mohan Mythresh, Manish KR and Vignesh C of Sunbeam CBSE school, Vellore.
In the idea presentation contest, the first place was bagged by E Aswathi of AKM Higher Secondary School Kottoor, Kerala and received Rs 10,000 as cash prize, while the second prize with a cash award of Rs 7,500 went to S Bavedra, P Pavithra and S Thejashwini of Kaligi Ranganathan Montford, Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Perambur, Chennai.
B Aravind, Ashwin Ranga VB and LS Yuvanesh of Shristi Vidyashram Senior Secondary School, Vellore won the first prize and cash award of Rs 10,000 in the working models contest along with K Somasundharam and D Devandhiran of Government HSS, Pennathur, Vellore. Students of both the schools received Rs 10,000 as cash prize. The second prize with a cash award of Rs 7,500 went to Janarthana of Veera Lakshmi Vidyalaya High School, Salem and P Dinesh Kumar and G Dhanush Kumar of Sunbeam Matriculation School, Vellore.
Among those who took part in the prize distribution function included Pro Vice Chancellor Dr S Narayanan, Dr A Mary Saral, dean, School of Advanced Sciences and Professors Dr R Vijayaraghavan, Dr E James Jebaseelan Samuel and Dr N Arunai Nambi Raj.
