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The ThinkQuest Competition engages students to solve a problem using their technology, critical thinking, and communication skills.

Test your skills against those of your peers globally! Compete in one of the following events as an individual or a member of a team:

ThinkQuest Projects
Develop a website in ThinkQuest Projects.

Digital Media
Produce an online journal/blog, a stand-alone website, photo essay, animation, public service announcement, video or some combination of these items.

Application Development
Develop an interactive application or game.

Prizes:

• 1st and 2nd place team members receive a laptop computer and a trip to ThinkQuest Live, a once-in-a-lifetime educational experience in the San Francisco Bay Area, California.
• 3rd place team members receive a laptop computer.
• The ten schools or organizations that register the most Competition participants will receive $5,000 USD for educational purposes.
• All teams that submit entries will be eligible to receive certificates of participation.
• Teams that finish in the top 10% will be eligible to receive certificates of distinction.
• Students who are 18 and over and whose teams finish in the top 10% are eligible to apply for an internship.

Schedule

• Competition Opens: September 14, 2011
• Entry Deadline: Wednesday, April 25, 2012
• Winners Announcement: Scheduled for June 20, 2012

Write an email to ikkumpal@gmail.com for ThinkQuest LOGIN-PASSWORDs
(Write subject of the mail as “ThinkQuest”, and mention your admission no, class, section, name, email, phone in the content of the mail)

Details available at www.thinkquest.org

To participate in Inter-DPS Powerpoint Competition
First you need to participate in Intra-DPS RKP Powerpoint Competition, whose details are follows:
Topic1: Gender Equity
Topic2: Nurture Trees and Conserve Environment

Open for all classes

PPT File Size: Not more than 4 MB with not more than 30 Slides
(If using Office 2010 – save your file PPT and not as PPTX)

Duration of the presentation: 3 Minutes
Last date for Submission: 10th November 2011

Submit your entries as PPT file positively through mail to: exunclan@gmail.com
(Write your name, class, section, email, phone number in the mail)

It continues to be a bad bad month for the industry; After Steve Jobs, Paul Galvin and Dennis Ritchie, AI pioneer John McCarthy passed away on Sunday. I encourage you to find out more about these great pioneers

Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.

Ritchie created the popular C programming language and helped create the Unix operating software. He died a month after his birthday, according to his biography on a webpage of Alcatel-Lucent’s Bell Labs. Ritchie joined Bell Labs in the late 1960s.

The company confirmed his death to The Associated Press but would not disclose the cause of death or when Ritchie died. A spokeswoman said the company was trying to contact his family.

Ritchie is best known for his contributions to computer programming and software. The C programming language, which Ritchie developed in the early 1970’s, is still popular. It has gone through a number of upgrades, and it is commonly used for website development and other computer tasks. The Unix operating software also surged in popularity. It and its offshoots, including the open-source Linux, are widely used today, in corporate servers and even mobile phones.

Ritchie’s biography on the Bell Labs site says that he was born on September 9, 1941 in Bronxville, New York, and studied physics and math at Harvard University.

“My undergraduate experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be a physicist, and that computers were quite neat,” Ritchie wrote. “My graduate school experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to be an expert in the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural languages better than functional ones.”

Jeong Kim, president of Bell Labs, wrote in a blog post that Ritchie was “truly an inspiration to all of us, not just for his many accomplishments, but because of who he was as a friend, an inventor, and a humble and gracious man.”

Cyanogenmod releases their first stable mod (Third-party ROM) for the Galaxy S I9000 which was the highest selling smartphone in the Indian market in the year 2010.

http://www.cyanogenmod.com

Source: http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/

Exun 2011 dates finalised… 19th-20th November 2011…
All the participating Geeks and Creative Experts – Mark these dates in your calendars.

From Exun

Exun 2011 Ingredients:

• Senior Quiz
• Junior Quiz
• Crossword
• Programming
• Swat The Bug
• Gaming
• Creative Event
• Group Discussion
• Surprise Event
• Hardware/Benchmarking
• SudoCrypt (Online Event)

Updates on the same are available at exunclan.com

Online Registration started on 29th October 2011

e-Lite 2011, the intra-school IT and technology competition, was held on 25th-27th July, 2011.

Note: The results in bullets are in no particular order.

Creative Event

Due to the subjective nature of this competition, there are no positions. The following is a list of people whose entries we liked.

• Akshay Dadhwal (X-C): Web Development
• Abhishek Biswal (X-B): Web Development
• Ananay Agarwal (VII-H): Digital Imaging

Day 3

Junior Quiz – Final Result (In Order Of Rank)

1. Akshay Gupta (VIII-G) and Rishabh Nirula (VIII-G)
2. Tanay Kothari (VIII-H) and Prateek Soni (VIII-H)
3. Saumitra Khullar (VII-F)

Senior Quiz – Final Result (In Order Of Rank)

1. Bharat Kashyap (IX-E) and Shiven Mian (IX-E)
2. Akshay Dadhwal (X-C) and Arneish Prateek (X-M)
3. Gyan Lakhwani (X-A) and Sharad Tara (X-I)

Group Discussion – Final Results

1. Adideva Sekhri (XI-H) [Non-Competitive]
1. Samyak Dixit (XI-O)
2. Trijit Mukhopadhyay (XI-J)
3. Gyan Lakhwani (X-A)

Programming – Final Results

Exun stands for “Experts Unlimited”. However, it is with regret that we must state that no expertise was shown in the programming event. We do not feel we can declare any “winners” for this event. All finalists are requested to mail the solutions to the sample paper (See the previous blog post) as well as programming final paper (Senior Finals, Junior Finals) to karanveer [dot] 1992 [at] gmail [dot] com or elite2011 [at] exunclan [dot] com. August. Participants who were unable to give the finals for some reason may also send their solutions.

Day 2

Junior Quiz – Finalists

• Akshay Gupta (VIII-G) and Rishabh Nirula (VIII-G)
• Tanay Kothari (VIII-H) and Prateek Soni (VIII-H)
• Ananay Arora (VII-A) and Haardik Kumar (VII-A)
• Sarvam Goel (VIII-G) and Saarthak Tandon (VIII-G)
• Saumitra Khullar (VII-F)
• Saatvik Jain (VIII-K) and Archit Aggarwal (VIII-K)

Junior Programming – Finalists

• Tanay Kothari (VIII-H) and Prateek Soni (VIII-H)
• Sarthak Tandon (VIII-G) and Sarvam Goel (VIII-G)
• Ananay Arora (VII-A) and Haardik Kumar (VII-A)

Junior Group Discussion – Finalists

• Saumitra Khullar (VII-F)
• Akshay Gupta (VIII-G)

Day 1

Senior Quiz – Finalists

• Vinamra Maloo (IX-G) and Kaustubh Saxena (IX-G)
• Gyan Lakhwani (X-A) and Sharad Tara (X-I)
• Bharat Kashyap (IX-E) and Shiven Mian (IX-E)
• Shreyas Padhy (XI-H) and Utkarsh Agarwal (XI-H)
• Siddharth Bhogra (IX-E) and Kushagra Samarth (IX-E)
• Akshay Dadhwal (X-C) and Arneish Prateek (X-M)

Senior Programming – Finalists

• Kunal Kapila (X-A) and Aayan Kumar (X-M)
• Utkarsh Agarwal (XI-D) and Shreyas Padhy (XI-H)
• Shayon Sengupta (X-M) and Dhruv Shaurya Singhal (X-M)
• Akash Malik (XI-I) and Akshay Sawhney (XI-K)
• Akshit Kumar (X-I) and Akshit Tyagi (X-M)
• Abhinav Agarwal (XI-F) and Shourya Khanna (X-M)
• Soham Roy (X-K) and Shantanu Chhabra (X-K)

Junior Programming – Finalists (Moved from Senior Programming Prelims)

• Pawan Khanna (IX-E) and Vishesh Balani (IX-I)
• Aditya Khandelwal (IX-G) and Stuti Sethi (IX-G)
• Mrinaal Mittal (IX-G) and Vansh Gambhir (IX-I)

Senior Group Discussion – Finalists

• Gyan Lakhwani (X-A)
• Sharad Tara (X-I)
• Vansh Chopra (XI-K)
• Trijit Mukhopadhyay (XI-J)
• Bharat Kashyap (IX-E)
• Trisha Pande (X-I)
• Vinamra Maloo (IX-G)
• Shivam (XI-K)
• Arneish Prateek (X-M)
• Pushkar Mishra (X-H)
• Samyak Dixit (XI-O)
• Adideva Sekhri (XI-H)
• Pranay Dilawari (XI-I)
• Dhruv Diddi (XI-J)
• Mayank Gulati (XI-H)

Hardware and Benchmarking – Final Results*

*As the performance of the rest of the participants was not upto the expected standard, the final round for hardware and benchmarking stands cancelled.

• Keshav Adhyay (X-L)
• Akshay Dadhwal (X-C)
• Ram Gupta (X-I)
• Special Mention: Parth Mittal (IX-F)

Congratulations to all those who made it to the finals!

Following is a letter from Steve Jobs who resigned on Wednesday as chief executive officer of technology giant Apple Inc:

To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come.

I hereby resign as CEO of Apple. I would like to serve, if the Board sees fit, as Chairman of the Board, director and Apple employee.

As far as my successor goes, I strongly recommend that we execute our succession plan and name Tim Cook as CEO of Apple.

I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.