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Toycathon 2021

Amritsar: The students of The Millennium School, Amritsar, Dishita Lumba of Class IX, Kirtida Sachdeva of Class VIII, and Archita Verma of Class X participated in TOYCATHON-2021 under the ‘Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan’ initiative and qualified for the final round under the Digital Category, by beating 17,000 plus nationwide entries and making it in the top 1,500 entries. The three also had the opportunity to be invited for a virtual meeting with Prime Minister, who congratulated and encouraged all the finalist teams.Shailja Tandon, Principal, The Millennium School said that the school has made efforts to incorporate Artificial Intelligence in the school’s curriculum to prepare the students for a world that is going to be dominated by AI and Data science. “The Millennium team built a game named ‘Millennium Virtual Guide’ that educates players about India’s many states, landmarks, and cultural aspects through a virtual tour guide named Gyaan; who is able to communicate in both Hindi and English. These students went through several screening levels and connected with IT mentors from prominent institutions, receiving guidance to compete with other teams. Overall, it has been a great experience for the students and indeed a proud moment for the school and the parents,” she said.

AGC students get jobs

AS many as 17 students of Amritsar Group of Colleges bagged job offers in virtual campus placement drive for BYJU’s company. Selected students have been offered an average pay package of Rs 10 lac PA and belong to several specialities of BTech. While announcing the campus placement figures for the 2021 batch, Dr VK Banga,Principal, said “As the recruitment process shifted to online mode this year, the number of offers drastically increased in comparison to 2020. This year has been extremely good for placements even though, some other leading recruiters like TCS, Nagarro, SopraSteria, Accenture, Infosys, Capgemini Wipro Technologies, Mind Infotech, Xtramarks, Ralson IndiaNewgen, Cogneesol, Infogain, Sobha Ltd, Luminous Power Technologies, Just Dial, Xl Dynamic 10, Chimic, Samundra,Manjushree, HDFC BankPagar Book, SopraBanking etcconducted successful placement drives at AGC, Amritsar.TNS