Students of various schools in Hyderabad showcased their general knowledge prowess at the IGNITE 2011 — a multi-city, inter-school quiz contest organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University ( IGNOU) here.P Susant and Ishtmeet Singh, students of Delhi Public School-Hyderabad were the winners, while Vasishta P and Aakash P of Gitanjali Senior School were the runners-up of the event held on Tuesday. The event was attended by over 150 teams representing various schools.Some of the questions by quizmaster Adittya Mobayi of Quizcraft were answered without much difficulty by the teams but some did make the participants think even more harder.The auditorium at the Birla Planetarium was full occupied with students cheering their school teams by clapping and shouting slogans.Addressing the students, IGNOU regional director B Rajagopal said the idea of such events is to ignite students' interest in higher education and to make them even more aware of the Open and Distance Learning System.“IGNOU has an active student enrolment of nearly four million now, thus contributing significantly towards the National Skills Mission in the Decade of Innovation,” Rajagopal added.A panel exhibition and a flash presentation were also organised as a part of teh event to make the students aware of the various programmes being offered by IGNOU.Hyderabad was the ninth city where IGNITE 2011 was organised. Before this, the quiz contest was held in different parts of India like Delhi, Kolkata, Guwahati, Bangalore, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Chandigarh and Jammu.IGNITE 2011 will be also be held in some other cities before the grand finale of the winning teams in held in Delhi.
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