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DPS-Modern Indian School wizards score hat-trick in Pi Day Math Contest

Published: 27 Mar 2023 - 09:06 am | Last Updated: 27 Mar 2023 - 09:07 am
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Doha: Maintaining their winning streak, DPS-Modern Indian School mathematical minds yet again registered a smashing victory for the third consecutive year in  the 2023  Pi Day Math Contest organised by Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar (CMU-Q). 

A total of 126 teams, representing 82 government and private high schools in Qatar competed in the preliminary round and out of the four teams that advanced to the finals , two teams were from DPS Modern Indian School.

DPS-Modern Indian School Team B comprising Ritvik Vardhan Reddy Kanjula, Himanshu Gupta, Azhar Jaleel, Muhammed and Kamali Ramesh won the coveted first position, followed by Team A with Theertha Aravind, Ajay Sharma Sambara, Aritra Ghosh and  Geetika Yalamanchili as the runners up of the competition. 

Both the teams  amazed  the organisers with  their extraordinary problem solving  and analytical skills and  finally the tie breaker round decided their first and second positions.

Principal Asna Nafees congratulated the winners. 

Pi Day Mathematics Competition was introduced by CMU-Q in 2016 to encourage high school  students to explore the fun side of mathematics.