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3,750 children to show math skills tomorrow
Are they kids or computers The audience gets riddled when they get to watch them solving 125 mathematical sums just in five minutes
Hyderabad : Are they kids or computers? The audience gets riddled when they get to watch them solving 125 mathematical sums just in five minutes. This is not a joke but real! Some 3,750 prodigy kids between four to 14 years are coming together from across the country from 22 States to compete with each other at the SIP Academy National Prodigy Competition 2018.
While 3,750 kids solve mathematical sums faster than calculators and at jet speed competing with computing skills of the computers, their 3,000 parents and another 1,000 people from organisers side will watch them. It will be a real spectacle to watch them at the HICC, Madhapur on Sunday. Uma Swaminathan, State Head of SIP Academy for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States said the competition would have two rounds. The first round with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh students would be held at 9 am, also marking the inauguration of the competition. Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, Professor of IIIT and Former Chairman of HYSEA would be the chief guest.
Uma Swaminathan said the second round would be held for the rest at 11.30 am on the same day. Dr Pradeep Kumar, Registrar, IIIT, would be the chief guest. SIP Academy has been working to develop skills of children across the country. “Over the past 11 years, we have trained over eight lakh students across our 900 learning centres in ten countries. As on July 2018, more than 5,25,000 children have benefitted from the programme across 23 States i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, Uma Swaminathan added.
