Hyderabad: Are they kids or computers? This is the doubt everyone gets, when you get to watch them solving 125 mathematical sums just in five minutes. This is not a joke but real.
Some 3,750 prodigy kids between four to 14 years are coming together from across the country from 22 States to compete with each other at the SIP Academy National Prodigy Competition 2018. While 3,750 kids solve mathematical sums faster than calculators and at jet speed competing with computing skills of the computers, their 3,000 parents and another 1,000 people from organizers side will watch them. It will be the real spectacle to watch them at the HICC, Madhapur on Sunday.
Uma Swaminathan, State Head of SIP Academy for Telangana and Andhra Pradesh States said the competition will have two rounds. The first round with Telangana and Andhra Pradesh students will be held at 9am. That will also mark the inauguration of the competition. Prof. Ramesh Loganathan, Professor of IIIT and Former Chairman of HYSEA will be the chief guest.
Uma Swaminathan said the second round will be held for the rest at 11.30 am on the same day. Dr Pradeep Kumar, Registrar, IIIT, will be the chief guest. SIP Academy was working to develop skills of children across the country. “Over the past 11 years, we have trained over eight lakh students across our 900 learning centers in ten countries. As on July 2018, more than 5,25,000 children have benefitted from the program across 23 States i.e. Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland, Odisha, Pondicherry, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, Uma Swaminathan added. (NSS)