It was a magnificent show of wisdom at Pathani Samanta Planetarium as school students, chosen after various levels of screening across Odisha, battled it out for the top slot at the 9th Edition of Tata Steel Inter-School Quiz competition held here.
Finally, DAV Public School, Kalinganagar of Bhubaneswar represented by Aman Samal and Priyansh Priyadarshi stole the show and was declared as Champion in the Competition held yesterday, a company release said.
While Priyanshu Sahoo and Soumya Raj Acharya of Modern Public School, Balasore bagged the second prize, Anurag Patra and Sujit Sahoo of SAI International School, Bhubaneswar came third in the keenly contested grand finale.
Conducted by quiz master Nishant Majithia, the quiz was a battle of knowledge between the six participating teams selected for the final round, it said.
More than 600 students from schools across Odisha participated in the preliminary rounds of the 9th edition of the competition which were conducted at Joda, Keonjhar, Jeypore, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Belpahar, Balasore and Jajpur Road in October and November.
The top 50 teams selected from preliminary rounds participated in the semi-final round held here Saturday and finally, six teams clashed in the finals.
