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ISRO Science Quiz Show - 'Chamatkar' |
By: Shanta Laishram * |
Please forward this to those who are interested. E-pao team may kindly publicise it to schools. Thanks. Shanta Laishram School of Mathematics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai-400 005, India http://www.math.tifr.res.in/~shanta ========================================= CHAMATKAR! the MARVELS OF ScIENCE Have you ever wondered if Science could be fun? Chamatkar is a battle of the wits in the basics of Science. We are looking for candidates who have always been interested in understanding, knowing, figuring out the basics of Science. It is a challenge that anyone can take. If you are strong in Science - we strongly encourage you to apply! Criteria to apply for Chamatkar: # Currently residing / have domicile in the Central or the Eastern zone. # Must be 20 to 50 years of age # A graduate from any field # Must be articulate in either Hindi or English Selection Procedure: All candidates who wish to participate in this show need to apply online, attempt the online test and register youself. The test is now available online at http://chamatkarquiz.blogspot.com/ For our second schedule we are looking at participants from the following zones: 1. Central Zone - MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand & Bihar. 2. East Zone - Orissa, West Bengal, Meghalaya, Tripura, Assam, Mizoram,Manipur, Nagaland & Arunachal Pradesh. 16 participants will be selected per zone to participate in the quiz. * This is an individual event. *****All selected candidates will have to make a trip to Mumbai between 15th - 18th October 2006 to participate in the Quiz (stay and travel for this trip will be paid for by the us) for a period of approximately 2 - 4 days. What to expect in the Quiz The questions will largely pertain to occurrences in our daily lives.Some of these questions will be based on experiments so simple that they can be tried even in your house! Stage 1 There will be 4 rounds per zone. Stage 2 The winners of each of these rounds will compete in their respective zonal finals. Stage 3 The winning participants from each zone/ the best 5 contestants from across the country (1 from each zone) will make it to the final challenge to compete against each other. There will be 1 national winner and five Zonal winner! The show is currently aired on DD 1 on Sunday mornings at 9 am. Please call : Rakhee Yadav ( [email protected] ) CHAMATKAR the MARVELS OF SCIENCE Shanta Laishram, a Mathematics Research Scholar at TIFR, writes regularly to e-pao.net He can be contacted at [email protected] This article was webcasted on September 12, 2006. |
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