STANES SCHOOL,COONOOR, WINS TCS’IT QUIZ

A TOTAL OF 661 TEAMS FROM 162 SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED

It’s the story of two boy’s battle that unfolded between two well-known songs at the Corporation Kalaiarangam here on Wednesday, 26th of August, 2010. The denouement of the two-hour battle of intellect, involving speed, accuracy, memory and etc., saw Srikkanth Sridhar and Nithin Vidya Prakash of Stanes Hr. Sec. School, Coonoor, emerge clear winners of the Coimbatore edition of the TCS IT Wiz 2010. They were found battle-worthy from among the 661 teams from 162 schools from Pollachi, Tripur, Erode Ooty, Kangayam, Kotagiri, Coonoor, Mettupalayam, Kannur and a few other towns that entered the combat zone. In the first round “Cloud Computing”, the warriors were shown visuals of personalities, Google Doodle, etc., and asked to answer the questions. In the second “Autonomic Computing”, they were asked to come up with terminologies or words that best fit the description the quiz master said.

The fifth and last round, “Grid Computing”, saw Stanes carpet bomb answers. Right from the word go, Srikkanth’s hands were on the buzzer and every time he pressed, the answer fell right on the target. The questions were not easy, though as he had to answer three questions and from that arrive at the final answer based on the given formula. And breathing gown his neck was St. Jude’s. After the intense moments, the battle came to an end when the quiz master announced that Srikkanth and Nithin had marched to the Coimbatore fort, leaving others way behind. The scores read: Stanes 85 points and St.Jude’s 45.And this is for the first time that the Stanes boys had won.

CONGRATS TO SRIKKANTH SRIDHAR AND NITHIN VIDYA PRAKASH OF STD XII