Students win NASA Trip

Updated on: Monday, March 12, 2012

Kota in Rajasthan has become the centre of Engineering students today with several coaching centres having come up to train students for various entrance exams.

Resonance is one such coaching Institute which prepares students for IIT-JEE , AIPMT, AIEEE and other competitive exams. The Institute recently organised a felicitation programme for its students who won the national-level Scholarship and Talent Reward Test, 'STaRT-2012 ,' on February 26 at Kota (Raj), for its All-India top-25 winners (classes VI to XII).

The MD and CEO of Resonance, RK Verma presented seven all-India first prizes consisting of an 11-day NASA (US) Tour, a gold medal and a merit certificate to Shauryasikt Jena (class VI) from Noida; Himanshi Mehta (class VII) from Udaipur (Raj); Divyanshu Mittal (class VIII) from Kota (Raj); Shrishti Asthana (class IX) from Chandigarh; Swati Gupta (class X) from Jaipur (Raj); Shudhatma Jain (class XI) from Kota and Pankaj Goyal (class XII) from Agra (UP).
A total of seven all-India second prizes consisting of a six-day tour of the Science Centre (Singapore), a silver medal and a merit certificate were presented by CL Verma and Gulab Devi to Parth Anil Shimpi (class VI) from Nasik (Maha); Lakshay Sharma (class VII) from Lucknow (UP); Puranjan Dev (class VIII) from Khurda (Odisha); Sheshansh Agarwal (class IX) from Jaipur (Raj); Parth Sharma (class X) from Kota (Raj); Yash Gupta (class XI) from Udaipur (Raj) and Jain Shubham (class XII) from Thane (Maha).

A total of seven all-India third prizes consisting of a laptop, a bronze medal and a merit certificate were presented to Chinmay SI (class VI) from Bangalore; Disha Rawal (class VII) from Gurgaon (Haryana); Suraj Dash (class VIII) from Hurda (Odisha); Bhavya Choudhary (class IX) from Kota (Raj); Diksha Agarwal (class X) from Kota (Raj); Palak Jain (class XI) from Udaipur (Raj) and Twinkle Parekh (class-XII ) from Ajmer (Raj).

The Vice president, Manoj Sharma, said that more than 81,000 students from across various cities participated in its stage-I test that was conducted in December 2011. Resonance has produced All India Rank (AIR), second and fifth, in IIT-JEE 2011 with a total selection of 1,816 students including 1,197 from the yearlong classroom programme and 619 from distance learning. Through STaRT-2012 , top-500 students , all-India winners (VI to XII) have won prizes worth Rs 50+ lakh, while top-100 students from each of the classes have won scholarships worth Rs six crore in Resonance's Yearlong Classroom Programmes.

Details on www.resostart.in

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