Ahmedabad edition of TCS IT Wiz 2014 on August 5

Gandhinagar, 24 July 2014

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions firm, announced that the Ahmedabad edition of TCS IT Wiz 2014 will be held on Tuesday, August 5 at Rabindranath Tagore Hall, Paldi.

High school students studying in class 8-12 (including Pre University of Junior college students) can participate. There is no entry fee. Each institution is allowed to send multiple teams of two-members each to participate.

TCS IT Wiz 2014 is held across 14 locations in India – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Indore, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur and Pune.

Entries have to be sent through the respective institutions on or before August 3 to Mr. Anshul Mehta TCS IT Wiz Coordinator, Tata Consultancy Services, InfoTower I., Infocity, Airport Road, Gandhinagar – 382009, Gujarat, India. For further details contact: 079 6671 2702 or can register online: www.tcsitwiz.com. You can also follow us on Twitter: @TCSITWiz

Quiz format: The top six teams from the written prelim will qualify for the regionals finals. Only the top scoring team from each school will be called on stage in the event of multiple teams from the same school qualify for the final. The winner from the Regional finals will contest in the International finals along with teams from Singapore and UAE, to be held in December.

The Regional champions this year will walk away with an iPad air each while the runners-up will be rewarded iPad mini along with a specially designed trophy and medals. The 6 finalists will also receive an array of prizes from TCS ranging from space pack, sippers, earphones, USB pen drive, speakers, and more.

Tweet and earn Mileage: The regional finals will have a Twitter contest for all the participants and the top two winners will receive Bluetooth speakers. The twitter contest will also involve a mileage earning system where every tweet will earn a point, tweet with picture 3 points and retweets will fetch 5 points. The student with highest tweet point across the 14 cities will win a tip to Mumbai to witness International finals of TCS IT Wiz.

TCStweetwiz: Three questions will appear on the screen and students can tweet their answers to the handle @TCStweetwiz during the correction break and the top three on first come first basis along with all correct answers will receive themselves a boom headphone each.

Subject: The Quiz will mainly focus on applications of Information Technology across various sectors and aspects including technology environment, the business, people, new trends and legends. It will also focus on emerging areas such as cloud computing, telecom, biometrics, robotics, world of Internet, unique web sites, IT buzzwords and acronyms. The Quiz will also cover areas where IT has made an impact – education, entertainment, books, multimedia, music, movies, internet, banking, advertising, sports, gaming, social networking, blogging, cell phones, etc.

A live webstreaming of the Regional finals can be viewed on: www.tcsitwiz.com or www.youtube.com/TCSGlobal on the day of the event.

About TCS IT Wiz:

TCS IT Wiz is the biggest inter-school IT Quiz programme in India, started in 1999 and was extended to UAE since 2011. The program aims to build awareness and hone IT skills, to help students look at technology through a whole new perspective. In today’s society and economy IT plays an integral role and is a key enabler for success in diverse fields. The quiz platform works as an effective supplement to the computer science and IT, as most of the questions researched for the quiz are beyond the academic areas compelling the students to look beyond the text books.