Media Release
Mangaluru, Dec 27: Sahyadri College of Engineering & Management, here is immensely pleased to announce that Sahyadri College is selected as a regional centre for Statistics Olympiad Center for Examination. To spot Statistical talent at an early stage, C R Rao AIMSCS is conducting: 'The 12 Statistics Olympiad 2020', a talent search competition in Statistics with an aptitude for numbers and data handling for students of high schools and colleges in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Maharashtra and Sri Lanka.
The competition will be in the form of a written examination of three hours duration. It will be held on Sunday January 19 from 10.00 am to 1.00 pm in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Tirupathi, Guntur, Kurnool, Kakinada, Warangal, Khammam, Mumbai, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Delhi, Pune, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mangaluru and Sri Lanka centres.
Eligibility: The applicant should have secured grade A or = 70% marks in Mathematics in the previous academic year (2018-19) in any board examination. The competition is conducted at two levels:
a) Junior level: Students who are presently studying in class IX and X (2019-20)
b) Senior-level: Students who are presently studying in class XI, XII and Degree or Engineering 1st year (2019-20)
Registration fee: Rs 100 (One hundred Rupees only)
The last date for registration is December 31st.
For more details visit: http://www.crraoaimscs.org
At each level, top three students will be given C R Rao and C Bhargavi Rao prizes of Rs 15,000, Rs 10,000 and Rs 7,000 on June 29, 2020 during the 12th Statistics Day
celebrations at CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad. Also, top performers up to 15 students in each level will be awarded merit certificates during the same function.
Last year from Mangaluru on eleventh statistics Olympiad 2019, Elma Elza Thomas from St Aloysius College secured All India sixth rank.
For more information regarding Olympiad, contact Deepthi N T, assistant prof, dept of Mathematics: +91 93426 58729.