Hi,
This is Alina here. I will be telling you something bout the TCS IT WIZ quiz held at pune.
The quiz was held at the Nehru Memorial Hall, Pune on the 31st of August (Tuesday) 2010.Students from class 8th to 12th participated.
The quiz mainly focuses on application of Information Technology across various sectors and aspects such as:
- World of Internet and unique web sites, IT buzzwords and acronyms.
- Personalia - International, national and Communication companies. (Example: Microsoft, TCS, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, HP, Google, Amazon etc)
- Software products, companies and brands. History of IT and also the humorous side of IT.
- Areas where IT has made an impact - education, entertainment, books, multimedia, music, movies, internet, banking, advertising, sports, gaming, social networking, cell phones, etc.
- An exclusive round on TCS(refer www.tcsitwiz.com & www.tcs.com)
Participants answered the preliminary written round on the pre-printed answer sheets supplied by TCS.
Top 6 teams qualified for the Regional finals based on their performance in the written preliminary round. After the corrections, prior to the Finals, the quizmaster will gave the answers for the prelims and announced the 6 top team names and invited them on stage to participate in the Regional finals.
Top 6 teams qualified for the Regional finals based on their performance in the written preliminary round. After the corrections, prior to the Finals, the quizmaster will gave the answers for the prelims and announced the 6 top team names and invited them on stage to participate in the Regional finals.
There were five rounds in the regional finals round. They were as follows:-
- Autonomic computing
- Cloud computing
- @tcs
- Parallel computing
- Grid computing
The quiz master for the quiz was Pickbrain. He heads Greycaps India Pvt Ltd; India's second largest quiz company, headquartered in Bangalore. Known for his distinctive style of quizzing, Pickbrain's sense of humour and approachable nature has earned him several accolades. He holds seven Limca records for quizzing achievements and has hosted more than 950 shows across 50 destinations of India. He has also hosted quiz shows in USA, Srilanka, Singapore and the Middle East Region. He was a great quizmaster!!
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| Pickbrain- the quiz master |
Six teams qualifed for the regional finals.
The finalists were
- Vikhe Patil - Ved Ranade and Debopriyo Moulik
- DAV Aundh - Abhishek Pant and Ksthij Jayakrishnan
- KV (AFS) - Prashanth Kumar Singh and Jyothi Sorout
- Bishops Co Ed - Animesh Swain and Abhishek Sureshan
- MMCS - Priyam Patki and Tejas Deshpande
- Army Public School - Rishiraj and Gyanendra Mishra
The winners for the quiz were Priyam Patki and Tejas Deshpande from MMCS.
The Runner ups were Rishiraj and Gyanendra Mishra from the Army Public School.
Priyam Patki and Tejas Deshpande winning their trophy.
Rishiraj and Gyanendra Mishra receiving their trophy.
It was indeed an amazing quiz. Children had a lot of fun there!!
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