SYNCHRONIZE Chapter-10

 At the end of the day, we felt that the day was legit ineffable. The 2 days were an ethereal serendipity. As it was mentioned in the opening ceremony that our participation and determination is more essential than winning; that everything in life,just like life itself is a learning experience. We would like to conclude that overall it was a unique experience in a new place. We also thank Bishop Cotton Boy's School's staff, volunteers, organizers, our teachers, friends and families for their unstinting support. 

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Cryptonite

Deciphering is how it's played!

 This is an event comprising 4 rounds. Each team consisting of 2 members. 

Round 1- Decode an enciphered language using a key sheet and that's how you decode your way to the next level. Sounds head breaking of course, but it's pretty interesting for mystery lovers!

This mindboggling event was held in Pettigrew Resource Center of the school.

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Robops

Do your fingers have a swift pace? Do you have a good sense of navigation? Yes? Then delve into the Robops contest !

Comprising 2 rounds, 1 on the same day and the other held on the next; it's is all about making your robot enter a maze to pick up a specified object and exit as quick as possible. The time begins as you enter the maze and ends when you exit. The ones who take the least amount of time to end this enigmatic labyrinth will make it to the next round. 

The event was held in the Auditorium Greenroom of the school.

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Spark

Practicalities as well as wild imagination take the form of a stupendous presentation. The event needs the contestants to make power point presentations.

The designated topic varies from team to team but the underlying remains constant, which is to manifest a settlement on an assigned location according to their criteria. Participants are supposed to demonstrate their ideas the next day. Sketches and designs must be submitted the same day using softwares like graphic software or hand drawn sketches.

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Show IT off

Show IT Off

An artist and an expert in animation and technicalities make the perfect duo!

The event requires you to photoshop pictures of the assigned animals to create a hybrid. 

There are totally 3 rounds. The first round witnessed 12 teams as participants. Each team consists of 2 members. The sample shown in the 1st round was Chimere. 

Event held in the Junior Computer Lab of the school. 

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NEURAL NETWORKING

The Neural Networking in the Auditoium

If you have an everlasting thirst for knowledge , particularly, an undying passion related to science, then go ahead and activate your neural networks! Conducted in John Drury Block. Questions were read out as well as displayed on the screen. Contestants were to answer those questions on a sheet provided to them. 

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Spectra

Model making is the name of the game! This event consisted of senior and junior categories. Participants are given certain raw materials and asked to construct a completely functional model.Juniors had to make a Barometer and a Sundial.  There were totally 3 rounds. Juniors were supposed to make the models with simple equipment and the seniors with a much better ones with different electronic equipment. 

They were given 35 minutes each to finish . This was held in Auditorium Basement of the school. 

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Clash of Titans

Inspired by a movie's name, the event is primarily a clash of brains and not arms!
Predominantly it's a debate contest with a participation of 12 teams from various different schools. Each team encompassed 2 participants, among whom 1 had to speak for the topic and the other had to be speak against the topic. Evidently the topics are given out on the spot. Topics based on science is the criteria.
There are 3 rounds in all, participants are given 10 minutes as preparation time. The first 2 rounds would be held on the first day and the final round would be held on the next day.

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Technocrat

A staggering task of encoding a programme, which will indeed give your gray cells a great workout!

Basically it's all about typing the computer language your way to glory.It consists of 3 rounds. The 1st and the 2nd rounds last for 45 minutes each and the final round is for an hour.

The 1st round deals with logical reasoning, debugging and finding outputs. The participants could create the programme in any of the computer languages like JAVA, C++ or Python. The 2nd round is mainly about the fundamental programming.

The 3rd round was about basic coding but on a new level of difficulty. The previous day nearly out of 22 teams got eliminated. Currently they are dealing with Application developing, decoding encryptions. It even includes deriving formulae for iteration. 
This is helpful for those aspiring to join the armed forces as decoding encryptions is a vital part of the career. 

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SYNCHRONIZE -2018

The word synchronize implies- to operate or occur at the same time or rate. The magnificent fest, Synchronize 2018, Powered by Science, Driven by IT, in the Bishop Cotton Boys' School conducted numerous interschool contests! Before the events were declared open, there was a montage of all the 18 events which was a real masterpiece. This events and contests involve intense brainstorming and logical reasoning!! 

THE OPENING CEREMONY

On a partly cloudy morning, we were all psyched up to be a part of the 10th edition of Synchronize 2018. Powered by science and Driven by IT in The Bishop Cotton Boys' High School, had a grand opening ceremony. After prayers,the addresses by the Chief Guests and the school song, it was the Rock Band that lifted our enthusiasm higher. There was also a dance and a mesmerizing Lazer show. What caught our attention the most was the rock songs which were both entertaining as well as school appropriate, it's really hard to strike a balance between the two.  

The Auditorium 

The Ceremony was in the Auditorium at around 10 AM IST. The Ceremony started with the school choir singing their School's song, On Straight On. This added quite a balmy effect to the beginning.  The boys sang in quite a perfect harmony. 

Right after the School's Song, there was an ensemble of musicians, who put on a great show. They played the theme song of Synchronize. The lively music raised our spirits and thrilled us even more for the rest of the event. There 7 boys each handling their instruments. There were few on the guitars, one on his keyboard and another was the vocalist. I bet, all of them did a great job in making the atmosphere even more sprightly. 


This was followed by an address from one of the Chief Guests, Dr. Latha Christie. She, during her speech posed an intriguing question," Who's more creative? A scientist or an artist?". Quotes by famous personalities like Einstein were cited- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting  different results. We were told words of wisdom regarding success, about our goals but flexible in our methods. 

The speech of Dr. Latha's was acceded by a dance. There a few boys dancing among all of them, there was little guy who caught everyone's attention! Well I can clearly tell that the kid really have "the moves like jagger". On the whole the dance was shizz!!

Next up was the trippy Laser show. It was really cool how such machines are made to produce or emit such lights. This laser show was accompanied by music which went along with the patterns of the light. The didn't really feel fugazi and it almost felt like we were a part of all the moving lights. The experience was really enthralling though!!

Moving on, the other guest who was present with us, gave a really short speech (well let's not elaborate on that, shall we?). Right after the address, a montage was played which gave us the gen on the many events which will be conducted for the next two days. Well the montage, to be honest, was literally amazing. Each one the events were described perfectly and well executed. 

The next few articles will brief you about 8 events that we've encountered.