Honours at Astronomy Quiz at Nehru Planetarium

On 29th August 2016, 4 students, Faraz Ali and Angad Singh Sandhu of class XII, and Rishika Makwana and Arya Khanna of class VIII went to participate for the annual astronomy quiz at the Nehru Planetarium in Chanakya Puri. They were accompanied by their teacher, Mr. Pallab Roy.

We reached the Planetarium at 8.30 am and the event started at 9 am. Round 1 consisted of a written test of around 25 questions about space and its laws. At 9:45, the participants participated in an oral round until 10:30 am. The questions were interesting and entreated the young science learners to explore the deep recesses of all that they had learnt. A tea break followed from 10:30 to 11 am.

The participants then took the ' Young Astronomers' Round' round until 11:45 am and went on to 'Young Astronomers Quiz' final. Apart from the above two rounds, a visual round was also conducted for all the participants to evaluate overall performance. The questions were about constellation, galaxies and other interstellar things.

Anya and Rishika got elected for the final round of the Young Astronomer Quiz. The results were announced and proudly for us, Anya and Rishika lifted the 3rd prize from among 10 leading schools of Delhi and NCR.

We had an amazing time. We learned a lot. Astronomy will always intrigue us.