The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Jamshedpur chapter, organised the 3rd “Professor S N Sinha Memorial Materials and Metallurgy Quiz for standard XI and XII students of Jamshedpur city at CSIR-NMl's auditorium. In addition to 14 participating schools comprising of 25 teams, teachers, many dignitaries from Tata Steel and CSIR- NMl attended the function.
Five teams qualified in the screening round out of 25 teams, representing from four schools, namely – loyola School Jamshedpur, Tagore Academy, Vidya Bharati Chinmaya Vidyalaya and Hill Top School ( two teams). After series of interesting rounds Akshit Akhoury and Siddharth Singh of loyola School Jamshedpur got the first rank Rajarshi Mukherjee and Subir Nandi of Vidya Bharati Chinmaya stood second and Abhijeet Kumar and Saurabh Srivastava of Hill Top School got third rank.
While delivering the inaugural address, Dr S Srikanth, director, CSIR- NMl, said,” Prof Sinha had a great role in building the student fraternity in metallurgy as Head of Metallurgy department of NIT Jamshedpur, and Dean / Principlal, NIT as well as Director, NIFFT Ranchi. He was a teacher of eminence and would be remembered by every one who came in his contact”. Dr S Srikanth also added that teachers and parents have a great role in determining the career path of a student.
This programme was initiated as an effort to create awareness among the students about the role of materials science and metallurgy in industrial and technological developments. In the year 1993, this event was named after Prof Brahm Prakash, an eminent metallurgist of India. Over the years, this competition has attracted appreciation from educationalist, researchers and industrialists and is considered a prestigious annual event of the Kalpakkam Chapter and the IIM.