Olympiad selection

The DPS and DAV schools ran away with the honours 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.