KOCHI: Three students from Kochi have made the city proud by scoring International Ranks in the Olympiad Awards held recently in Delhi organized by Science Olympiad Foundation.
About 40 lakh students from over 31,500 schools in 1,400 cities across India and 19 countries participated in the Olympiad exams during 2014-15.
In the Olympiad, Kochi came out with flying colours. With three International Ranks to its credit, Kochi proved its mettle all the way again. Chinmay S Pathak of class IV from Navy Children School and Joanna Susan Thomas Reddy of Class XI from The Choice School got International Rank 1 in International English Olympiad and both received Rs 50,000 cash prize each along with gold medals. Class XI student E Vishnu Bhagyanath of The Choice School got International Rank 2 in National Cyber Olympiad and received Rs 25,000 cash prize along with silver medal . During the function, the top 3 international rank holders from classes one to 12 for the four Olympiad exams conducted by SOF were awarded.
The awards included:
International rank One - 47 awards. Each winner was awarded Rs 50,000, a Gold Medal, Merit Certificate International rank Two - 47 awards. Each winner was awarded Rs 25,000, a Silver Medal, Merit Certificate International rank Three - 47 awards. Each winner was awarded Rs 10,000, a Bronze Medal, Merit Certificate and gifts worth Rs 1,000 each.
Chief guest of the function was Deepak Verma, former judge, Supreme Court of India. Guests of honour were Padma Sree Prof Y S Rajan Chairman, NIT Manipur and Distinguished Professor at ISRO, Michael Gordon, Teaching Centre Manager, India British Council, Padma Shree Dr N P Gupta and Chairman - The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon.