Bokaro, Feb. 5: The DPS and DAV schools ran away with the honours on Sunday at the state-level Mathematics Olympiad held at St Xavier’s School, Ranchi.
As many as 37 school students were selected for the regional Olympiad, which will then send select students for the national championship to choose the final six students who will represent the country in the International Mathematics Olympiad later this year.
At the state-level meet, Bokaro boys and girls stole the show with 15 of the 37 selected students hailing from two Bokaro schools. Eleven students of Delhi Public School (Bokaro) went through and also topped both junior and the senior groups.
Four students from Chinmaya School (Bokaro) also made the grade.
In the junior group, as many as nine DPS students, from Bokaro, Jamshedpur and Ranchi, made the grade while four students from Chinmaya School and two students from Loyola got through.
Last year the international meet was held at Washington DC where a DPS, Bokaro, student received a gold medal.
Churamani Prasad (DPS, Bokaro) was declared the winner in the junior group whereas Nitin Saurabh of the same school was declared the winner in the senior group.
DPS, Bokaro, principal Hemlata Mohan said 30 selected students would receive special coaching at New Delhi or Mumbai before the Indian team of six is finally chosen.
Congratulating the 15 students from Bokaro, 11 of them from her own school, Mohan declared that it was a proud moment for the steel city.
Selected students:
Junior group: Churamani Prasad (gold), Manasvi (bronze), Ashutosh, Richa, Manto Kumar, Sagar Setu, Devarshi Mitra, Saket Choudhry, Akshat Agrawal (DPS, Bokaro and Dhanbad), Shubham Kumar (silver), Mayank, Ankit, Mrinal, Pushkar Pushpa (DAV, Ranchi), Ishan Anand, Ashish Kumar, Kunal Kishan, Neeraj Kumar (Chinmaya Mission, Bokaro and Jamshedpur), Saurabh Prakash, Ankur Verma (DPS, Ranchi) Suvodhaya Sinha, Rishabh Kumar (Loyola, Jamshedpur), Pravin Kaushal (Sainik School, Tilaiya), Sudipto Mondal (DAV, Jamshedpur)
Senior group: Nitin Saurabh, Md Jawed Iqbal, Suraj Prakash and Saumya Sah (DPS, Bokaro), Antarip Sahu (DAV, Ranchi)
