The Department of Mathematics of VIT School of Advanced Sciences recently organised VIT Mathematical Meet was held at VIT campus. Executive director of VIT Sandhya Penta Reddy, distributed prizes to the students who had won in the different contests.
Shrishti Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Vellore, won the overall prize in the competition. Over 2,450 students from Class six and 12 from 65 schools took part in the contest.
The competing students were divided in batches and the contests conducted for them included quiz in mathematics, essay writing and mathematical models.
Among the contests held for students in Tamil medium, the first prize was won by Government Higher Secondary School, Karanampet, while the second prize was won by Islamiah Boys Higher Secondary School, Vaniyambadi and the third prize was won by Mangalambal Government aided Higher Secondary School, Wallajah.
In the contests conducted for students in English medium, Sri Vardhaman Jain Matriculation Higher Secondary School of Virinchipuram, vellore won the first place.
Dr R Sivaraman, Founder of Mathematical Institute, Chennai was the chief guest on the occasion and handed over prizes to the winning students. Reddy handed over cash awards worth Rs 45,000 and certificates to the students.