The Science Olympiad Foundation organized 16 ceremony in New Delhi to felicitate the International winning students, teachers and principals of Olympiad exams for the Academic year 2012-13. Students of Bhilai shines in international olympiad toppers, which is Asia's largest international olympiad awards.
The British Council and BBC Knowledge associated with SOF for the Olympiads. During the function, awards were given to the top 3 international rank holders from classes one to twelve for the 4 Olympiad exams conducted by SOF. Winners from classes 7 to 12 won Rs 50,000 each, the rank two holders won Rs 25000/ each and rank 3 holders won Rs 10000/ whereas, winners from classes one to 6 were awarded I-Pads. In addition, attractive gifts were given to all winners. The top 10 principals and top 40 teachers whose students put up an excellent performance were also felicitated with cash awards, mementos & citations.
Pramey Singh (Class 10) of Delhi Public School rewarded Rs25,000/ cash prize for bagging International Rank 2 in National Cyber Olympiad, while, Nimay Gupta (Class 7) of Delhi Public School secured International Rank 2 in National Science Olympiad and received Rs 25,000/ cash prize. Also, Harshraj Singh (Class 11) of Delhi Public School positioned International Rank 3 in National Science Olympiad and received Rs 10.000/ cash Prize
The State Topper students, who received Medals and Mementos, to make the city proud were; Khushie Kurkeel (Class 4) of Krishna Public School, Prashant Dewangan (Class 12) of BSP Senior Sec School, Mrinal Dewangan (Class 8) of English Medium Middle School, Aviral Kumar (Class 10) C V Sriram (Class 9) & Ayan Mandal (Class 11) of Sri Sankara Vidyalya and Amritanshu Barpanda (Class 2) Suprit Naik (Class 3) Debayan Saha (Class 6) Keshav Gupta (Class 8) Animesh Singh (Class9) Aryam Sharma (Class 5) Ankit Singh (Class 6) Aditya Prakash Singh (Class 9) Simi Karan (Class 10) Suprit Naik (Class 3) Amogh Huddar (Class 4) Tanmay Goyal (Class 5) Debayan Saha (Class 6) Shreya Pandey (Class 10) Samarth Mishra (Class 10) Samarth Mishra (Class 12) Aniruddha Methi (Class 5) Shraddha Shranjali Sahoo (Class 6) lavanya Verma (Class 7) Barbee Bhattacharya (Class 8) Siddhant Pathak (Class 9) Nidhi Nand Kumar (Class 10) Ishan Bodele (Class 11) and Aishwarya Pillai ( Class 12) of Delhi Public School.
Chief Guest of The ceremony was Justice RC lahoti, Former Chief Justice of India. Guests of Honor Prof YS Rajan, Prof ISRO and Chairman NIT Manipur, Charlie Walker– Director Programmes, British Council India, were present. Swami Nikhilananda Saraswati – Acharaya Chinmaya Mission also blessed the winners & guests.