Inter school science quiz

On 12th December 2017, a team of 5 students of class XI went to Amity University, to represent The Indian School at a science quiz, conducted by the university in association with the IAPT (Indian Association of Physics Teachers). The students were Gitansh Satija, Samarth Saxena, Himani Arora, Utkarsh Pandey and Ishita Gupta. Around 30 schools from all over Delhi participated in the quiz.

The programme commenced with a senior professor giving a brief introduction about the event. The quiz comprised of 2 rounds, a written preliminary round and an on-stage final round. The prelims consisted of 20 questions based on the class XI science syllabus. All the teams were given 30 minutes to solve the questionnaire.

The prelim round was followed by one of the professors giving a short lecture on Nanotechnology and its applications. Then there was a presentation about lab activities on the same topic.

4 teams qualified for the finals. The finals consisted of 5 rounds of various kinds of questions including logical, audio-visual, and activity-based questions, also based on class XI science syllabus. After the final round was over there were some laboratory demonstrations on Nanotechnology, including activities like synthesis of ferro-fluid, gold nanoparticles etc.

In the end the students were briefed about a few courses available at the university that they could consider pursuing after high school.

Overall, the quiz was a good initiative on the part of Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) to test and enhance the knowledge of class XI science students.

Samarth Saxena, ( XI A ).