The students of St. Columba's brought
laurels to the school at the *Mind Bender quiz - A national quiz organised by
NMIMS Hyderabad on the 29th of August*.
The quiz featured an online preliminary
round held on the *5th August*, in which a total of *1100* students
participated from *all over India*.
*Team 1 (comprising of Atharva Kaarki,
Atharva Pandey, Shaurya Bajaj and Arnav Ahuja of class 11)* and *Team 2
(comprising of Neil Singh, Teerth Bhatt, Aarush Stanley and Nimit Srivastava of
class 12)* made it past the qualifying round, securing their positions as *top
50 teams all over India*.
The semi-finals and finals of the quiz
were held *on-site on the campus of NMIMS Hyderabad on the 29th of August* -
where both the teams representing our school performed extraordinarly in a
fiery battle of wits and knowledge, with *Team 2 (Neil Singh, Aarush Stanley,
Teerth Bhatt and Nimit Srivastava) having secured a special mention for being
ranked overall 9th in the quiz*; and *Team 1 (Atharva Kaarki, Shaurya Bajaj,
Atharva Pandey and Arnav Ahuja) having secured the overall 3rd position in the
quiz and also received a cash prize of 10 thousand Rupees*.