Information Technology

ABOUT TCS IT WIZ

ENTRY AND ELIGIBILITY

✓ There is NO entry or registration fee.
✓ Students from 8 -12 std. are eligible to participate.
✓ Multiple teams per school (2 members per team) will be allowed to participate.
✓ Completed entry forms should reach us by 25-Nov-09

SUBJECT

The quiz will mainly focus on the following areas:
World of Internet and unique web sites, IT buzzwords and acronyms
Personalia - International, national and local
Advertisements of IT and Communication companies
Software products, companies and brands. History of IT and also the humorous side of IT
Areas where computers have made an impact such as education, entertainment, books, multimedia, internet, banking, advertising, sports, etc.

PRIZES GALORE

All students who take part will get a participation certificate and a memento from TCS.
All the 12 finalists (6 teams) who make to the Regional Finals will receive gift hampers from TCS.
Winners will get laptops while the runners up team will get digital cameras & portable DVD players respectively
Schools that emerge Winners and Runners-up will be awarded the TCS trophy.
There will be audience prizes and a special prize for the Best Cheering Squad.

RULES OF THE GAME
On the day of the event, contestants should be present at the venue at the specified time in their school uniform and carry their official identification from the school, if any.

Contestants will answer the preliminary written round on the pre-printed answer sheets supplied by TCS.

The top 6 teams will qualify for the Regional Finals based on their performance in the written round. The quizmaster will announce their names and invite them on stage to contest in the finals.

The Regional Finals will comprise oral questions, audio, visual, connect and rapid-fire rounds. The scoring system will be explained by the quizmaster before each round.

Ties, if any, will be suitably resolved. The quizmaster’s verdict will be final. Scores will be displayed at the end of each round and winners announced at the end of the quiz.

Audience Questions: As always, there will be several separate questions for the audience to win prizes.

TCS IT Wiz 2009 - FORMAT OF THE QUIZ

Overall Quiz Format

Prelims: This would be a common set of 20 questions for all the teams at the venue. Questions would be in the form of oral, visual and audiovisual.

Finals: The top six teams from the written prelims would qualify for each regional final. Only the best team from each school will be called on stage in the event of multiple teams from the same school qualifying for the final.

Rounds for Regional Finals

SCREENAGER - Each team on stage gets a question - Question passes from the team that gets the direct question to other teams - The research would range from IT happenings across the world

CRYPTOLOGY - Each team makes a choice from a crossword puzzle - The clues would be cryptic from the world of IT

VIOSK - It is a new term being used for visual-aided kiosks. - This would be a visual round. - Question passes from the team that gets the direct question to other teams.

MORPHING - This is a round where the teams get multiple clues on screen. They have to morph the clues to arrive at one final answer. - The research would range from IT happenings across the world

@ TCS - A round that would be based exclusively on TCS. - Questions would be framed from the media releases so the research is clearly from facts available in the public domain.

WAPPLETS - This would be a round that would essentially focus on speed of reaction and recall - True to the round name the questions would be little pieces of data from the world of IT - This would be on the buzzer.

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