Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 27: The grand ceremony of Resonance’s Scholarship & Talent Reward Test (STaRT) 2014 was organized recently at UIT Auditorium in Kota.
Dr Vinay Pathak, Vice Chancellor, Vardhman Open University was the chief guest of the ceremony while the function was presided by the Managing Director & CEO of Resonance, R K Verma.
The function was attended by students selected in stage-II of STaRT-2014, their parents and Principals and co-ordinators of participating schools across India.
This had been the 3rd season of Resonance STaRT- a National Talent Reward Test conducted for students studying in classes 5th to 12th. It is conducted in 2 stages.
This year more than 1.75 Lakh students participated in the stage-I examination. Format of question paper in both the stages is objective in nature.
The winners of STaRT – 2014 of different classes, are ; Jeevesh Joon of Kota Ifza Parvin of Narendrapur, Swaraj Nandi of Bhubaneswar, Vinit Kr Yadav of Varanasi, Akansha Jain of Faridabad, Aryadeep of Varanasi, Ayushman Tripathy of Bhubaneswar, Aashi Bhati of Bikaner, Stuti S Khandwala of Surat, Yash Gupta of Kota, Shauryasikt Jena of Noida, Jatin Kumar Goyal of Kota, Tushar Agarwal of Bhopal, Chitrank Gupta of Jaipur, Sourav Sahoo of Bhubaneswar, Ashutosh Samal of Kharghar, Divyam Bapna of Udaipur, Abhisek Sahu of Bhubaneswar, Sharique Imbesat of Ranchi, Ayush Agarwal of Ghaziaba, Mudit Agarwal of Jaipur,
Kunal Bansal of Mandi Gobindgarh, Arnim Mathur of Kota, Pushpraj Sikarwar of Sheopur, Swapnil Tolia of Rajkot, Bhargavi Srividya Akella of Hyderabad, Anirudh Sarda of Ajmer, Charu Maheshwari of Surat, Ayush Gupta of Kota, and Vishesh, of Mahendragarh
The prizes of STaRT-2014 include 11-day tour to USA including 2 days educational trip to NASA for students securing All India Rank (AIR)-1; 9 days tour to Europe including visit to CERN for AIR-2 and 6 days tour to Singapore including visit to Science Centre for AIR-3. In addition to this various other prizes like branded laptops, tablet PCs, digital cameras & sport watch are awarded. The total number of prizes in STaRT-2014 comes out to be 2100 worth more than Rs 1 crore. Also, for students joining any of the Resonance courses there is a provision of more than 5000 scholarships.