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Indian students figure in global software talent contest

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BANGALORE:Gagandeep Singh, Atif Zia and Aman Gupta from Yadavindra

School, Chandigarh, and K. Pavan, Amit Chandra and Aravind Shankar from Vidya

Mandir School, Mylapore, Chennai are going to represent India at the

International SEARCC Software Contest for Schools to be held in Auckland, New

Zealand on November 27-28, 2001.

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The two teams won the annual National Software Talent Contest for Schools

co-hosted by Computer Society of India and Aptech Computer Education, held in

Chennai on October 14.

Each year, the CSI conducts a software competition where teams from schools

participate at the local, regional and national levels. The objective of this

contest is "to catch them young" and motivate them by offering the

best teams an opportunity to participate at the international level.

CSI chairman, Prof. C R Muthukrishnan said, "This year, over 300 schools

from all over India participated in the event. The local rounds took nearly

three months of hectic activity and coordination for the regional level. These

rounds were held at various Aptech centers across the country. Eleven regional

teams from 300 schools participated in the national finals."

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