Loyola School wins Prof SN Sinha Materials & Metallurgy Quiz

The Indian Institute of Metals (IIM), Jamshedpur Chapter, organised the 6th “Professor S. N. Sinha Memorial Materials and Metallurgy Quiz 2018 (SNSM3Q-2018)  for standard XI and XII students at CSIR-NML’s Auditorium, Burmamines. Dr Indranil Chattoraj, director, CSIR-NML, Jamshedpur formally inaugurated the programme.

The event is dedicated to the memory of Late Prof. S N Sinha, an eminent educationist and past president of the IIM Jamshedpur Chapter.

Six teams qualified in the screening round out of 29 teams, representing from five schools, namely - Loyola School Jamshedpur (two teams), Vidya Bharati Chinmaya Vidyalaya, Sacred Heart Convent school, Baldwin Farm Area High School and JUSCO School Kadma. After series of interesting rounds, Shivam Singh and Harshit Singh of Loyola School Jamshedpur were declared champions.

Debanshu Sen and Ujjal Ghosh of Baldwin Farm Area High School got Second prize. Adrija Roy and Mini Shail Chhabra of Sacred Heart Convent school stood .

The two winning team will get opportunities to participate in Professor Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz – 2018 to be held at Kalpakkam in September.

Over the years, this Quiz Competition has attracted appreciation from educationalist, researchers & industrialists and is considered a prestigious annual event of the Kalpakkam Chapter and the IIM. The National Level “Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz” has gained wide popularity within student community. More than 50 teams comprising 100 students from all around the country participate every year.

This programme was initiated as an effort to create awareness among the students about the role of materials science and metallurgy in industrial and technological developments. In the year 1993, this event was named after Prof. Brahm Prakash, an eminent metallurgist of India.