Orissa Information Technology Society (OITS) conducted a quiz test at senior (MCA, BE, B.Sc.(Eng) and B.Sc.(hons)) and junior (upto class XII) levels with separate questions, on 2nd September, 2001. We tried to contact Berhampur, Puri, Sambalpur/Burla, Rourkela, Sarang, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar, but we could not obtain response from Rourkela and Sambalpur or Burla. About 1100 students registered for the same, and a little less than one thousand students appeared. Organisationally, the contest was modelled after Orissa Mathematics Olympiad of Orissa Mathematics Society, where upto 10,000 students appear every year (at junior and senior levels). Professor Sudarshan Padhy, Secretary, OITS mainly coordinated this activity, with able assistance from P.K. Behera, Treasurer, OITS, and Manas Patra, joint secretary, OITS, Berhampur with help from many others including M.Tech. (Comp Sc) students (who were not eligible to contest). The results at senior and junior levels are as below. Special prizes were awarded to B.Sc. (hons) students at senior level, and upto Class X students at the junior level, since relative to the bulk of candidates, they had less exposure to the study of computer science/IT.

This year the participation got confined to Berhampur, Puri, Sarang, Cuttack and Bhubaneswar. We do hope that next year we can streamline this activity and have a larger number of students covering all parts of Orissa.

We now give the results of the olympiad examinations at senior and junior levels as below:

1. Smruti Padhy: 7th Sem C.Sc. & Eng., Orissa Engineering College

1. Swarupananda Bisoi: 3rd Sem M.C.A. Dept.of C.Sc., Berhampur Un.

2 Sharmistha Samal: 5th Sem IMCA School Of Math.-Stat.-Comp.Sc.,U.U.

3. Priya Ranjan Mohanty:3rd Sem MCA Inst of Business & Comp Studies,bbsr

4. E. Rudra Pratap: 5th Sem. IMCA School Of Math-Stat-Comp.Sc.,U.U.

4. Piyush Mohapatra: 7th Sem.C.Sc.&Eng. Orissa Engineering College

4. Sankar Dora: 5th Sem. MCA Dept.of C.Sc.,Berhampur University

5. Deepankar Dash: 3rd Sem. MCA, Kalinga Inst of Ind. Tech., KIIT

5. Satya Swarup Sahu: 7th Sem.C.Sc.&Eng, Nat. Inst. Sc. & Tec., NIST

6. Nitin Rathod 5th Sem.,MCA, Dept.of C.Sc.& App.,U.U.

6. Preeti Khurana: 7th Sem.C.Sc.&Eng. Orissa Engineering College

7. Prashamik Chatterjee 7th Sem.C.Sc.&Eng, Nat. Inst. Sc. & Tec., NIST

8. Jyotirmaya Swain: 3rd Sem.MCA, Indira Gandhi Inst of Tech, Sarang

9. Akasmika Das: 5th Sem.MCA, Silicon School of Inf. Tech. bbsr

Special Prizes (B.Sc.(hons) comp. sc.):

1. Satya Sidhartha Bal: B.Sc.(Hons) C.Sc. Ravenshaw College, ctk

2. Vikas Thacker: B.Sc.(Hons) C.Sc. B.J.B.College, bbsr

2. Vihas Ranjan Parida: Class XI, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

3. Rajballav Dash plus 2 first year, BJB Junior College

4. Sourav Rath: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

4. Swarup Kissan Rath: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

5. Abhijit Mishra plus 2 first year SCS Junior College, puri

5. Gopal Krushna Panda plus 2 first year SCS Junior College, puri

6. Devi Prasad Mishra plus 2 first year SCS Junior College, puri

7. Arya Kumar Swain: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

8. Narayan Srinivasn: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

8. Shivi Shelly: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

8. Srimoyee Mishra: Class XII, DAV Public School, Chandrasekharpur, bbsr

9. Biswajit Behera: Class XII, De Paul School, Berhampur

9. Chandan Mishra: Class X, Blessed Sacramont High School. Puri

Special Prizes (upto class X):

1. Swati Swayamsiddha: Class X, St. Vincent's Convent School, Berhampur

2. Pragati Sahu: Class X, HaroBino Vidya Bhawan, Berhampur

(S.P Misra)

Address:

Professor S P Misra, President, Orissa Information Technology Society,

Kanan Vihar HIG Colony, Bhubaneswar 751031, India.

Tel: 91-674-440810 (H)

email: spmisra1@sancharnet.in; spmisra@iopb.res.in; spmisra1@yahoo.com