IIT- Delhi has won the north zone of Bending Moments — a national
level quiz competition held to judge the smartest students in the field
of Civil Engineering, according to a news report.*



Dr D.C.Misra

January 26, 2008

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*IIT-Delhi wins north zone quiz for civil engineers



New Delhi, January 25 IIT-Delhi has once again proved its mettle.
Defeating around 180 participating teams from five northern states,
Himanshu Gupta and Achnit Goel of IIT- Delhi today won the north zone of
Bending Moments — a national level quiz competition held to judge
the smartest students in the field of Civil Engineering.

Ankit Sharma and Tushar Jain from Ayojan School of Architecture came
first in another quiz contest "Archumen" held for architecture
students. Both the quizzes were held in IIT here. Now, both the winning
teams will be going to Bangalore in February to take part in the
national finale where they will be competing against three other teams
from south, west and east zones.

"We are looking forward to our trip to Bangalore for the finals and
we will try and give a tough fight to all the regional winners and stake
claim for the national championship," the winners said. Gupta and
Goel were chosen after five rounds of questioning and nail biting
suspense. Of the 180 teams participating in the north zone finals, six
teams made it to the finale of both the quizzes. Most were from IIT
Delhi, IIT Rourkee and Delhi College of Engineering. The winners were
given a cheque of Rs 5,000 each.

Ethos, the organisation behind the quiz, said the quiz acts as a
platform to engineering students to perform outside their colleges. In
the beginning, only Archumen quiz was held but two years back it decided
to incorporate a quiz for Civil Engineering students as well.

"We wanted to bridge the gap between the communities of architects
and civil engineers," said Gita Balakrishnan, the brain behind the
endeavour.



(Source: The Indian Express, New Delhi, Express Newsline Delhi, January
26, 2008, Saturday, p-3,
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/IITDelhi-wins-north-zone-quiz-fo\
r-civil-engineers/265672/, accessed: January 26, 2008)







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