Miscellaneous

(Yet pretty decent! (Yes, I am boasting....I surely must))

1. Prior to BITS-Pilani

   1. 1. CBSE X board - First rank ( Maharastra, Gujarat & Goa zone)

         1. 99.9 percentile all over India amongst 12 Lakh students. Received Indian Oil Cash prize award, Trophy from Rotary Club of Juhu, Mumbai, Trophy from Shiv Sena, Andheri, Mumbai

      2. CBSE XII board - Second rank (School – Science Stream)

      3. Competitive ranks in Entrance Examinations

      4. AIEEE Rank - All India 222 & State 22 – offered scholarship from AIEEE (1 lakh students)

      5. BITSAT score 410 / 450 – Rank 3rd in BITS admission (amongst 1lakh students)

      6. IIT JEE – Secured All India Rank 2814 (amongst 3lakh students)

      7. Others : Manipal – AIR 16; NMIMS – AIR 2; selected for ISI (very selective)

      8. Participated and received medals & certificates - school level (only the more later ones - Don't remember most of them, since I hopped through soooooo many, in fact 10, schools in different places)

      9. Olympiad: National Science(All India rank 66) & National Cyber Olympiads -top 1%

      10. Homi Bhabha Bal Vaigyanik Scholarship

      11. National Physics & Chemistry Olympiad – top 1% in each

      12. Inter School (State Level) Oratory, Debate and Essay Competitions - 1st prize

            At BITS-Pilani (It isn't mere lack of pronouns/synonyms that I repeat my institute's name with such pride)

• • 1. Represented BITS Pilani in National level Technical Competition & Symposiums at IIT Madras and at ACM-ICPC ( International Inter Collegiate Programming Competition) National Level at IIT Kanpur in 2007

    2. Student Member of ACM (Associated Computer Machinery)

    3. Member of the English Press Club and involved with the Cactus Flower as well.

    4. Member of Utkal Samaja at BITS. Perform Homa Yagnas at Saraswati and Ganesh Poojas.

    5. Given lectures on hacking especially on the topic of vulnerabilities, worms and network tools like nmap, wireshark and netcat. Another lecture on windows registry and task manager

    6. Judged a EECS Association design competition that involved designing a model to distribute food more efficiently in a local fast food restaurant.

    7. Attended TRI Robotics Work Shop and participated in Line Follower project

    8. “JEU DE Technology” Science Quiz (with international participation) - 1st Prize

    9. Sun Programming Contest - 2nd Prize

    10. Astro Quiz – Apogee 07,09 - 1st prize (This is the best of the lot...we won by a huge huge margin :) and bloody missed the '08 edition. Thanks Abhinav.)

    11. Treasure Hunt – Oasis 08,09 - 2nd and 1st Prize respectively

    12. Music Performance – Inbloom 08 - 2nd Prize

    13. Shortlisted for Aditya Birla Scholarship and Goldman Sachs Scholarship

    14. Volunteered for workshop on graphs and algorithms by IISc and BITS Pilani