The Inter-School Vasant Valley Tech VVIZ 2020 concluded on August 27. A total of 34 schools from across the country participated in various technology-based events in Tech VVIZ 2020 which was held between August 26 and August 27. This year, the Vasant Valley School Tech VVIZ 2020 was held online due to the compulsions of the current pandemic.

The Vasant Valley School Tech VVIZ 2020 comprised of four contests: 1) Multimedia contest, 2) Music-Bytes, 3) Game-o-Matic, and 4) Tech-o-Bytes. All competitions were held in two rounds, the preliminary round, which was held on August 26 and the final round, which was held on August 27.

List of participating schools:

1. Air Force Bal Bharti School
2. Bal Bharati Public School, Pitampura
3. Birla Vidya Niketan
4. Chinmaya Vidyalaya
5. GD Goenka Public School, Vasant Kunj
6. Gyan Bharati School
7. Heritage International Xperiential school
8. Heritage Xperiential Learning School
9. Mallya Aditi International School, Bangalore
10. Mayo College Girls’ School, Ajmer
11. Mayo College, Boys, Ajmer
12. Modern High School for Girls, Calcutta
13. Modern School
14. Neerja Modi School, Jaipur
15. New Era Public School, Mayapuri
16. Pathways School Noida
17. Pathways World School
18. Sanskriti School
19. Shiv Nadar School Noida
20. Shiv Nadar School, Gurugram
21. Springdales School
22. St. Columba’s School
23. Strawberry Fields High School
24. The Assam Valley School, Assam
25. The Heritage School, Vasant Kunj
26. THE Scindia School, Gwalior
27. The Shishukunj International School
28. The Shri Ram School- Aravali
29. The Shri Ram School, Moulsari
30. Vasant Valley School
31. Venkateshwar Global School
32. Vivek High School, Chandigarh
33. Welham Boys’ School, Dehra Dun
34. Welham Girls’ School, Dehra Dun

The theme of this year’s multimedia contest, the flagship contest of the Vasant Valley School Tech VVIZ competition, was “Lights, Camera, Action: It all happened Online”. The student entries were judged by independent filmmaker Kavita Carneiro, award-winning film editor Monisha Baldawa and cultural practitioner, curator and conceptualizer of art experiences Sameera Iyengar.

The second contest Music-Bytes tested participants’ ability to blend technology with music. The participants, while keeping the theme “Connect” in mind, had to compose a song using any music creation software. They were judged by DJ Jay Pei, musician Puneesh Suri and founder of electronic music project VRIDIAN Vir Rattan Chowdhury.

The students also participated in the two-round online gaming competition, Game-o-Matic. The participants were seen in action over a game of FIFA20. The technology quiz, Tech-o-Bytes, put the participants’ knowledge about all things related to technology to the test.

Winners:

Multimedia Contest

The first place in the multimedia contest was secured by Hrishi Raj Sureka, Parthiv Gargo, Bornam Bora and Anushka Barua from Assam Valley School, the second place was bagged by Jai Kapoor, Aadi Jain, Vedika Bagla and Ayushmaan Aashish Kher from Vasant Valley School, while Karnit Mukut, Ananya Shailendra Sinh Solanki, Shaurya Sharma and Vardhman Lunia from Neerja Modi School, Jaipur took the third position.

-Third Ranked Team: Neerja Modi School, Jaipur
Karnit Mukut, Ananya Shailendra Sinh Solanki, Shaurya Sharma and Vardhman Lunia

-Second Ranked Team: Vasant Valley School
Jai Kapoor, Aadi Jain, Vedika Bagla and Ayushmaan Aashish Kher

-Highest Ranked Team: Assam Valley School
Hrishi Raj Sureka, Parthiv Gargo, Bornam Bora and Anushka Barua

Music Bytes

In the Music Bytes contest, Raghav Kathuria and Prakhar Dixit from Welham Boys School secured the first position, Prithvi Oak and Laila Alva from Vasant Valley School came second and Adimesh Singh Baidwan and Nischey Verma took the third spot.

-Third Prize: Vivek High School
Adimesh Singh Baidwan and Nischey Verma)

-Second Prize: Vasant Valley School
Prithvi Oak and Laila Alva

-First Prize: Welham Boys School
Raghav Kathuria and Prakhar Dixit

Game-o-Matic

Karman Singh from St. Columbas School took the first spot in the Game-o-Matic contest while Kushagra Ganesh from Sanskriti School and Parth Arora from New Era Public School secured the second and the third position respectively.

-Third Prize: New Era Public School
Parth Arora

-Second Prize: Sanskriti School
Kushagra Ganesh

-First Prize: St. Columbas School
Karman Singh

Tech-o-Byte

In the Tech-o-Byte contest, Pragun Sharma from The Shri Ram School, Aravali, secured the first position, Srinjana Ghosh from Modern High School for Girls came second and Udhay Aman Chopra from Vasant Valley School bagged the third position.

-Third Prize: Vasant Valley School
Udhay Aman Chopra

-Second Prize: Modern High School for Girls
Srinjana Ghosh

-First Prize: The Shri Ram School, Aravali
Pragun Sharma

Overall winner of Tech VVIZ 2020

Vasant Valley School, with three wins across categories, emerged as the overall winner of Tech VVIZ 2020.