Ishmeet Wadhwa, a student from Bhopal, made his parents proud by garnering an international rank from the Science Olympiad Foundation. He secured International first rank in National Cyber Olympiad along with a gold medal and cash prize of Rs 50,000.
Ishmeet is a student of class four from Sanskar Valley School. It is to be noted that as many as 42800 schools from 1400 cities across 25 countries participated in the six SOF Olympiad exams during 2016-17 and around 45 lakh students participated in the Olympiad.
In this Olympiad Ishmeet showcased a wonderful performance winning the international first rank. Notably, Science Olympiad Foundation organized a felicitation function in New Delhi to recognize and award the International winning students, teachers and principals of Olympiad exams held during the Academic year 2016-17.
During the function, the top three SOF international rank holders from classes one to twelve for the six Olympiad exams were awarded. There were total 177 awards.
The programme started with the lighting of the lamp at The India Habitat Centre Auditorium in Delhi by the Chief Guest Vijay Kr. Shukla, Judge, MP High Court; Padma Shri Prof YS Rajan, Former Chairman, NIT Manipur and Honorable Distinguished Prof. at ISRO; Michael King, Director Examinations, India, British Council Examinations and English Services and Shyam Agrawal, President, The Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
In addition, over 8, 00,000 students have been awarded Medals of Excellence for achieving top rank in their respective schools.