The students of the city explored their science ability in an annual quiz contest that was held at Regional Science Centre. Organised with the collaboration of Canara Bank, Bhopal, it was a day-long quiz that commenced on Monday.
More than 100 students from 27 schools of the city participated in the competition. The competition had two sections that included Middle Schoolchildren and high schoolchildren. Moreover, the quiz that held here on Monday was the semi final round, the second semi finals would be held on January 29 followed with finale of January 30.
The Education Officer of Regional Science Centre, Charudatta Pulliwar informed The Pioneer that this annual quiz contest is Inter School competition where various schools of the city participated. He further said, “This competition is an every year feature of the centre. The main purpose behind organising this competition is to encourage students to give an active participation in such quizzes and also to enhance their skills in different fields.” Under this round, St Josephs Convent School Arera Colony was the winner under Middle School category and Carmel Convent Ratanpur won under the High School Category.
The students’ skills were analysed on various levels. First the students played the primary level out which they were selected for semi final and then three students were selected for final round. At the primary level the students were asked the oral questions followed by audio-visual questionnaire that was done at second level of the quiz including a buzzer round. The final level was played with a rapid fire round.
Pulliwar further said, “This quiz usually includes the questions from the curriculum the school follows.” The questionnaire included the subjects like Science, Mathematics, and General Knowledge. Further, the participants were asked about the astronomy through audio-visual aid. Notably, it was an extravagance for the students as they shared their ideas with each other that gave them an opportunity to explore the ideas of one another. The felicitation programme would be held on February 3 by Jaya Kumar, DGM Canara Bank.