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TCS TECH BYTES - IT QUIZ

The Board of IT Education Standards (BITES) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Asia’s largest IT company are organising the first edition of the Engineering IT Quiz – “TCS TechBytes”.

The program is an initiative to help students understand technology better - in the process help them enhance their lateral thinking process and inculcate the spirit to compete and excel.
The quiz would serve as an alternative platform to enhance awareness and confidence levels of the aspiring engineers while bringing them in sync with the current developments in the technology domain through an interactive and engaging quiz platform. “TCS TechBytes” strives to provide a better understanding of IT as technology today is an enabler in diverse fields – be it engineering, medicine, law, sports, science, movie, music, government, automobile and telecommunication.

The quiz is open to engineering students of all streams and will be held across Karnataka. It will be hosted by noted Quizmaster ‘Pickbrain’ Giri Balasubramaniam of Greycaps, who also conducts TCS IT Wiz, Rural IT Quiz and Tata Crucible among others.

Detailed information on the quiz, rules and entry forms are listed below

Each institution can send 10 teams (2 students per team). A model questions format has been sent to all engineering institutions to select the 10 Best Teams from their college. The entries of the selected students should be sent before 25th March to bitesitquiz@gmail.com or faxed to 22207270/1 or courier to the following address

THE COORDINATOR
BITES-TCS IT Quiz
BITES
#9, Ground Floor, UNI Building, Thimmaiah Road
Millers Tank Bed, Bangalore – 560 052

Institutions are urged to nominate a coordinator from their institution and provide his / her contact details (email, mobile, phone nos.) to coordinate with BITES.

ABOUT THE QUIZ

Round 1: College Level ·

The College will select 10 Best Teams (2 members per team) by using the model question paper sent to all institutions. The test should be written as a team (2 students per team). The test should not be answered individually. · The college has to send the enclosed entry form of the selected 10 teams before 25th March, 2010 to: The Coordinator, BITES TCS IT Quiz, BITES, # 9 Ground Floor, UNI Building, Thimmaiah Rd, Millers Tank Bed, Bangalore 560 052. Alternately you can email it to bitesitquiz@gmail.com or fax us to 22207270/1.

Round 2: Regional Finals
The Regional Level Quiz will be conducted by the Quizmaster at the following places:

• Gulbarga – 12th April
  Venue: Appa Institute of Engineering & Technology, Sharana Basaveshwar,
  Institune Complex, Brahmapur, GULBARGA-585 103 
• Hubli – 15th April
  Venue: B V B College of Engg. & Technology, Vidyanagar, HUBLI-580 031 
• Tumkur – 17th April
  Venue: Siddganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur-572 103 
• Mysore – 26th April
  Venue: Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg, JSS Technical Institute
  Campus, Mysore-570 006 
• Mangalore – 28th April
  Venue: Srinivas Institute of Technology, Merlapadavu, Valachil, Farangipete
  Post, Mangalore – 574 143 
• Bangalore – 30th April
  Venue: RV College of Engineering, R V Vidyanikethan Post, Mysore Road,
   Bangalore - 560 059

 

 Round 3: State Finals
The 6 Regional Winners from Gulbarga, Hubli/Belgaum, Tumkur, Bangalore, Mysore and Mangalore will be invited to participate in the State Finals at Bangalore on 8th May at PES Institute of Technology, 100 Feet Ring Road, BSK III Stage, Bangalore-560085.
The winning team will emerge as the Karnataka State ‘TCS TechBytes’ Champion.

ENTRY AND ELIGIBILITY
There is NO entry or registration fee.
Students from all engineering streams in Karnataka are eligible to participate.
Only 10 teams per college (2 members per team) will be allowed to participate.
Completed Entry Forms for Round 2 should be sent to BITES before 25th March.
Therefore rush the selected teams from your college immediately.

For more details download these PDF files.

• Regionwise colleges list 
• BITES-TCS TechBytes IT Quiz

TCS Rural IT Quiz - II Place

As you may be knowing about TCS Rural IT Quiz. It has been conducted from the past 9 years and is still going strong. I had been the state finalist for 2008.

We went there to see the exhibition on 6th NOV at around 4 PM. To be honest the exhibition was lacklustre. Only a few stalls and the most that hurt me was that Microsoft being a Diamond Sponsor did not put up a stall. It was inaugurated by our CM Mr. Yeddurappa and Gujarat CM Mr. Modi.

We came the next day ie: the Quiz day to the Palace Ground at 1:15 PM. It was one of the most frightening moment because our Autorikshaw toured the whole Bangalore city before taking us there. But it was his loss because the meter had gone up to Rs 50 but we just gave him Rs 20 and some scoldings.

The six teams who qualified for the State Finals were: 

1. Kashinath Handiganur & Manjunath Malipatil – Vidyabharati High School Talikoti, 

2. Shashank S Meti and Prabhu B Viratimath – St Annes Convent High School Bagalkot, 

3. Devrath N D and Surya V – MKET PU College Harihar (ofcourse we), 

4. Vittal R Pai and Madhusudan S – Kalpataru PU College Tiptur, 

5. Prashanth Pai  and Snehith Periera – SMS PU College Brahmavar and 

6. Rakshitha H M and Shravya R – Carmel Convent Mandya.

The quiz started with the commencing of Mr. Hegde, the Primary Education Minister at 4:30 PM. It was our first Zonal and State Finals so some nervousness and curiosity at the same time. And the quizzing began with the quiz master Giri 'Pickbrain' Balasubramaniam.

The first round was "Global Bytes" that had questions on history of computing, to people and products from the world of IT. We choose History and got a picture of a man standing in front of a computer. We answered it as Bob Bermer and UNIVAC but right answer was Grace Hopper and UNIVAC. Bad start.

The second round was "Quick Bytes" which was rapid fire rounds on buzzers. We answered quite a few questions here. I guess we answered 2 questions here. 

The Third rounds was "Lateral Bytes" which was an audio/video round requiring lateral thinking. 

The Fourth round was "Bits & Bytes" which was a round of crisp animated clues where teams had to think on their feet. I remember answering Intel for one of the questions here.

And the last round was "Last Bytes" which was on the buzzer and we had to crack the answer based on the clues.

After 6 rounds of adrenaline quizzing the team from SMS PU College Brahmavar got I Place and we got II Place. We got a Trophy, Rs 35,000 + 16,000(Zonal finals) and Nokia 3110.

After many firsts this year I have promised myself to study much better next time and win this Quiz. I thank my partner Surya too for the hard work and being my partner. And i also thank my parents without whose support i could not have become a Zonal Finalist I guess. And also our Principal for relieving us from the Mid term Examination that is being held presently.

Good Bye for now and hope and pray for winning it next year.