PUNE: SIP Abacus, recently organized the regional level SIP Abacus Regional Prodigy Competition 2023 in Pune on 25th June 2023. This massive-scale competition was held at Shree. Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi, Pune.
The distinguished Chief Guest for the event was Shree: Chandrakant Patil, Honorable Minister – Technical & Higher Education, State of Maharashtra.
The event was also attended by Sarita Kapoor – Principal, Jijamata English Medium School, Jejuri, Renuka Singh Merchant – Shivaji English Medium School & Jr College, Saswad, Mr. Mahesh Ajay Bhalerao, Vice Principal, St.Joseph’s English Medium School, Khalad
The mega event brought together 1615 SIP Abacus students from 38 centers of Pune, PCMC, Ahmednagar & Western Maharashtra. In the competition, children solved around 300 mathematical problems in 11 minutes covering Abacus, multiplication, and visual arithmetic sums.
Children also attempted a Concentration Round of 100 sums in 3 minutes in which they exhibited their computing skills in loud music in the background. The competition is a platform for the SIP Abacus students to demonstrate their exceptional arithmetic ability, memory, and concentration skills, which they acquired through the SIP Abacus program.
The regional prodigy is part of the SIP National Prodigy competition, scheduled to happen in a few months. SIP Abacus has in earlier years achieved 5 LIMCA books of records for the size and pattern of the competitions held in India and internationally.
In the Trivandrum Regional Prodigy, the parents of 1615 students were present to witness this massive competition along with SIP Abacus India franchisee partners and employees. A total of over 4500 people attended the function.
Addressing the students, Chief Guest Shree. Chandrakant Patil said, “I have seen many miracles in my social and political career in the last 45 years but I have never seen such a miracle so far which is exceptional. SIP Academy by conducting abacus training is implementing national Education Policy in reality. Children of this age rather than just learning subjects need to build long-term skills like SIP Academy’s children. I am delighted to see the concentration level and calculation speed of the students. This program will fully sponsor 100 underprivileged students in the Kothrud constituency in the next three years.“
Addressing the students Sibi Sekhar – Director, of SIP abacus sai, “We are aiming to touch 1 million minds in the coming future and we are growing our network in every city now. SIP abacus train students with high-level learning skills in the future will surely succeed in every spear of life. In this contest students participated in 16 categories different categories. And the champions of each category are announced.“
