Catch Them Young - an unforgettable summer vacation for schoolchildren in India

 

Catch Them Young, a two-week program to initiate schoolchildren into information technology, completed its 12th year. Students from reputed educational institutions in major cities were selected through an entrance test that urged them to think out of the box. The program was successfully concluded at Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chandigarh, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mangalore, Mysore, Pune and Thiruvananthapuram.

 

An initiative of Infosys' Education & Research (E&R) group, CTY gives school students across India a head-start in understanding information technology. Top performers in the program get an opportunity to work with experienced Infosys professionals on exciting projects. Since 2005, CTY has benefited over 6,390 students.

 

Selected students underwent classroom sessions that introduced them to Microsoft Office, System Analysis and Design and Programming in Visual Basic. The classroom sessions were handled by educators from E&R and volunteers from the production environment. As part of the program, students were divided into groups and assigned projects, which included designing systems for school management, library management, airline reservation, railway ticketing, store management, etc.

 

Artifacts such as flowcharts, decision tables, databases, input and output forms, reports and test plans were designed by individual groups during the time allotted for projects. On the final day, teams presented their work to senior leaders from Infosys' E&R group.

 

In addition to the technical activities, students participated in a soft-skill workshop, team-building sessions as well as quizzes and seminars that enabled them to showcase their creativity and awareness. At the end of the training, up to three students were selected from each center for their first exposure to a professional IT environment.

 

For these lucky schoolchildren, CTY turned out to be a summer vacation they won't forget in a hurry.

 

 

The winners

 

Bangalore	Bhubaneswar	Chandigarh
Akshita Ramani National Hill View Public School   Keshav R. Bishop Cotton Boys' School   Srinivasan R. National Public School, Indiranagar	Amlan Patro Delhi Public School, Kalinga   Swati Mishra BJB English Medium School	Akshatha Kulkarni Carmel Convent School   Ishaan Preet Singh St. John High School
Chennai	Hyderabad	Mangalore
Manikandan S. R. Sri Sankara Senior Secondary School   Vinodhan R. Bala Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School	Krishna Akhil All Saints High School   S. S. Sai Bhargav Sri Aurobindo International School	Arjun Raghunath Little Rock Indian School, Udupi   Nakul Kamath St. Mary's Higher Secondary School, Udupi
Mysore	Pune	Thiruvananthapuram
Laksh Kumar P. Acharya Vidya Kula, Mysore   Adithya S. Maharshi Public School, Mysore	Ankit Chavan National Public School   Abhishek Bairy The Bishops Co-Ed School, Kalyani Nagar   Ravina More St. Joseph's High School	Hari Govind M. St. Thomas Residential School   Rahul Krishnan Loyola School

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