Mumbai, November 22, 2008: The TCS IT Wiz conducted by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm, received an overwhelming response. Over 500 students from more then 50 schools participated in the first ever Mumbai edition of TCS IT Wiz - India's largest inter school IT Quiz which was held today at Indian Education Society's MANIK SABHAGRIHA, Bandra.

After some intense quizzing and keen contest, Neil Satra & Sanchay Jaipurya from Dhirubhai Ambani International School walked away with the coveted winners' trophy, along with a laptop each. Prizes were distributed by Ms. Gita Piramal, Business Historian and Best Selling Author -"Business Maharajas"and Chaitanya Sathe Center Head, TCS Mumbai.

The 6 teams which made it to the regional finals after the written prelims received a back pack, MP3 players, headphones, coffee table books and T-shirts from TCS, besides gift vouchers from leading hotels in the city. The six teams which made it to finals were: Advaita Pandya & Anchit Navelkar ( Lokhandwala Foundation school), Vikraman & Mustafa Ahmad (Army School, Colaba), Srinidhi B & Vishal Yadav(Navy Children School), Neil Satra & Sanchay J (Dhirubahi Ambani International School), Mohit Motwani & Arnav T(Arya Vidya Mandir) Harsh V & Karan Kamath (Lilawatibai Podar Secondary School)

The extremely high level of competition among the six teams on stage, the innovative format of the rounds and the interactive style of quizzing by Quizmaster Giri Balasubramaniam aka pickbrain made the Quiz very engrossing.

Keeping pace with the changing trends in information technology, the quiz had several
mind-bending rounds: Screenager - which had topics from IT happenings across the globe, Cryptology - a crossword round with cryptic clues, Viosk - a visual round, Morphing - a round with multiples clues where teams had to morph the clues to crack the answer, @TCS - based exclusively on TCS and Wapplets - essentially focusing on speed of reaction and recall, where pieces of data had to be put together to arrive at the final answer.