11TH RISMUN CONFERENCE AT RYAN
Ryan International School, Vasant Kunj hosted the 11th Model United Nations (RISMUN) conference recently where 24 schools from Delhi-NCR participated.
The conference was inaugurated by Col DPK Pillay, (Shaurya Chakra) who gave a motivating speech to the future leaders of the country. Over 400 students.
Every year, the conference provides ideas for solving globally relevant issues and gives an opportunity to the delegates to express their leadership qualities.
The chairman of Ryan International Group of Institutions, Dr AF Pinto and MD Grace Pinto have always guided their students towards this unique endeavour.
The two-days conference culminated with a closing ceremony in which the schools were awarded under the categories of best delegation, committees, reporter, photographer and delegates.
OlYMPIAD (SEAMO) COMES TO INDIA
In an endeavour to inspire and embrace enthusiastic young minds in India, the Prestigious Southeast Asian Mathematical Olympiad (SEAMO) is set to conduct Olympiad in the country for the first time. It is a platform dedicated to provide resources for students of various levels to hone their problem-solving skills and to prepare for challenging mathematical competitions.
The test date in India is August 6, 2017.
Students of Classes V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI & XII are eligible. The duration of the exam is two hours and has MCQs in Maths. There are numerous benefits. First, participating students benefit from a national and international ranking. Second, since the question paper will be prepared at the same time for India as well as for other countries, the level of difficulty of both exams will remain same. Top 0.025% of participating students will win a gold plated medal and a certificate of participation, 1% will get a silver plated medal and a certificate and the next 2% will get a bronze plated medal and a certificate. The rest will be given certificate of participation.
The registration fee for Classes V to IX students is Rs1150 (including service tax) and for Classes X, XI & XII students is Rs1300 (including service tax).
For more details visit: www.seamo-official.org
SEMINAR ON INTERNET OF THINGS
KIIT College of Engineering, Gurugram organised a one-day seminar on the Internet of Things. Anurag Kumar, director of Tevron Technologies, said that it is a technology used to explain the combination of censors in machinery and the chips. Internet can be monitored and controlled by this machine.
He also said that day is not far when the car will identify a vacant space for parking and park itself.
The students were asked to think about the new ideas to solve small problems in the surroundings like to walk according to the traffic rules, the dustbin which is already filled in the public places can be automatically informed to the municipality.
SS Agarwal, DG, KIIT College, said: “Internet of Things is a concept through which devices connected to Internet can work before the defined time through the medium of internet. It is also called non-screen computing because these devices can think like a computer with no screen.”