Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) IT Wiz, the most keenly contested and biggest quiz programme across India for schools witnessed a tough battle and high voltage drama this year with 15 outstanding teams of young IT enthusiasts vying for the championship title at the national finals.
In the nail-biting finale in Mumbai, Jamshedpur–based team Shadan Kalam and Adnan Azmat from Rajendra Vidyalaya emerged winners of the championship. This year the winners each walked away with a gold medal, an Apple watch, an iPhone 6s, a 1 TB portable hard disk, power bank mobile charger and a USB Skype phone as prizes. The duo carried a trophy for the school as well.
The TCS IT Wiz regional editions were held this year between August – November, across 15 locations in India. The 15 teams battled it out in two rounds of semi-finals consisting of seven and eight teams each, to reach the grand finale.
After a tough semi-final the eight teams made it to the big national finals. N Chandrasekaran, CEO & MD, TCS who distributed the prizes remarked, “We have raised the bar of the TCS IT Wiz competition a notch higher, this year. It is refreshing to see young talent battle it out in earnest to win the coveted title in the true spirit of the competition. looking at the talent in just this room, I can confidently say that India’s future in the IT and technology space is definitely very bright!”
Jayakrishna and Venkata Sai Adarsh of St. Patrick Matric, the team from Pondicherry who had won the Chennai finals at regional level lost by a whisker to finish runners’ up. They walked away with silver medals, iPhone 6s, 1 TB portable hard disk, power bank mobile charger, power bank mobile charger, USB skype phone as prizes and a trophy for the school. TCS IT Wiz has become a huge national movement that it is no longer about the cities where the quiz is held as the top teams had actually travelled to Kolkata and Chennai respectively to be a part of the quiz.
The finale was hosted by noted quizmaster Giri ‘Pickbrain’ Balasubramanium who presented the quiz through gamification rounds, developed by using animation software that kept the audience and the teams at the edge of their seats.