Class nine student receives gold medal from BU vice-chancellor for scoring 300 out of 300 in the C++ programming

Updated on: Friday, June 28, 2013

S Keerthi Lakshmi, a class nine student of Gandhi Matriculation HSS, Vikramam, Thanjavur received a gold medal from Bharathidasan University's (BDU) vice-chancellor K Meena for scoring 300 out of 300 in the C++ programming exam. Though Lakshmi was one of the five students who got gold medals in the university's unique school university industry tie-up scheme (SUITS), the rest did not get full marks in their respective subjects. A total of 36,128 students from classes five to nine from 109 schools spread over 22 districts got their university certificates on Thursday in Trichy that was attended by all the school-level toppers along with their parents and teachers.

SUITS was the brainchild of the director of Bharathidasan University's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Career Development (IECD) K Parthasarathy who has so far conceived 15 innovative programmes during the last nine years of IECD's existence. SUITS was launched four years ago to offer computer literacy to school students so that when they go to college they would have imbibed the necessary competitive spirit. Five courses such as computer basics, office automation, programming techniques, C and C++ programming were imparted in schools. It was optional for the schools and the university-conceived syllabus was provided for the subjects for a nominal fee of Rs 300 per student. The exams were conducted by the university itself, while the answer papers were corrected by independent outsourced evaluators.

In its fourth academic year, SUITS had issued university certificates to 36,128 students thereby imparting confidence in the young minds who might become future scientists and technologists.

The highlight of the pan-Tamil Nadu, fourth passing out ceremony was that three outstanding schools - Vivekanada Vidhyalaya Matriculation HSS School, Arakkonam, Nirmala Matriculation HSS, Redfields, Coimbatore and National Academy Montessori Matriculation HSS, Pattinamkathan, Ramanathapuram - were given trophies. Parthasarathy said that for the first time feedback was given by the students themselves who were delighted at mastering power point presentations at a tender age.

Hailing the fourth passing out ceremony of the SUITS-linked students, Meena said that she herself learnt C++ programming when she was doing her masters in computer science but today the ninth standard students had the opportunity to learn the same, thanks to SUITS that now plans to introduce three courses from the fifth year: computer science, graphic designing, and 2D animation. SUITS plans to enrol around 1,500 students on an experimental basis. Principal of Jamal Mohamed College, Trichy, Dr A M Mohammed Sindhasha said that communication and computing skills were central to a student's life, and the BDU was in the forefront of doing this.

Class nine student receives gold medal from BU vice-chancellor for scoring 300 out of 300 in the C++ programming

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