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Day after exam labours ... The day after led me to working non-stop on the Website for Chakravyuh . Please go and see it - and more importantly, do come. Cheers,
BCQC November Open Quiz Time for the next set of open quizzes (which just spills over to December despite its name). This time, we have a bunch of quizzes, and here are the details: Common Details Date and Time : 3 December, Sunday Venue : Dewang Mehta Auditorium, "Bhageerath", Persistent Systems Pvt. Ltd., Senapati Bapat Road, Pune (nearest landmarks: the building is behind Domino's Pizza; this is the same road as the main Symbiosis college, ICC Trade Towers; ~5 kms from Pune railway station; 2 kms from Pune University Circle) Contact for info : 98810 00957 (Shamanth), 93244 45248 (Ramanand), contact-at-bcqc-dot-org Fees : none - just show up and you can take part. Registration : on the spot. Quiz 1: Open quiz for schoolchildren : Organised by: Shamanth Flavour: General Team Size: Upto three per team Restrictions: none; unlimited number of teams per school Reporting time: 9 am. (The quiz will be from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm) Quiz 2: Open quiz Organised ...
BCQC Schools Workshop I Facilitator : Shamanth Rao De-facilitators: Abhishek and Salil Venue: Symbiosis Library. The workshop was attended by around 40 kids. This is because the 20 from Abhinava did not turn up for some reason. So we had 20+20 from Symbiosis and Muktangan. The workshop itself went exceedingly well. We found that most(80%) kids really enjoyed themselves, and as usual Shamanth's questions were quite perfect for the occasion. Points to self would be, ensure that the furniture at workshop location is not a hindrance rather than being useful. Need to ensure that there is enough space for people to huddle around etc. Need to inform schools about this in future. Another thing we need to do is to tell schools that when we say we expect nothing in return, we mean 'nothing'. Therefore, I and Shamanth walked out bearing two handsomely decorated potted plants, which though were wonderful, we quite hard to carry back home for us poor motorcyclists. Looking...