Inter-School quiz competition Won student of Carmel High School

PATNA: Carmel High School of the city won the Inter-School quiz competition organized by Carmel Alumni Association on Saturday. The International School (ICSE) was the runner-up. The competition registered the presence of 18 students of nine schools.

In the preliminary round, a written contest was conducted to shortlist four teams out of nine teams. The finalist teams were from Don Bosco School and Gyan Niketan apart from Carmel High School and International School (ICSE).

"The quiz, which was conducted in 11 rounds, was essentially Bihar centric. The participants, who were students of class 10 and below, were quizzed about history, geography, music, art and craft of Bihar," said Shailaja Sinha, the member of alumni association.

Preetpal Singh and Pawan of International School (ICSE) lost just by a whisker to Kalandi and Sikta of Carmel High School. "It was neck and neck competition between the winners and the runner-up. The final round of the quiz ended in a tie. Then a tiebreaker round was conducted to select the winners," said Sinha.

Kalandi and Sikta were beaming on their achievement. "We are extremely happy and excited that we have won in front of the crowd which largely comprised our schoolmates," they said.
"The competition was in the series of annual events organized by the alumni association. This year the event commemorates the centenary year of the statehood of Bihar," said Sinha, adding, "Our aim behind conducting such annual events is to promote overall personality development of students. We believe that academics comprise of not only classes and books but extra-curricular skills too."