IGNOU and the South Asia Regional Office of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), New Delhi, are organizing  a Science Olympiad for Science students currently enrolled in 11th Standard/Class or equivalent in other SAARC countries.  

“Students  of Indian Higher Secondary and  CBSE studying in 11th grade or equivalent in South Asian countries–Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,  now have an opportunity to win IGNOU-UNESCO accredited merit certificates, prizes and awards”, announced IGNOU Vice Chancellor, Professor V.N.  Rajasekharan Pillai.

“All students who have scored a minimum of 70% average in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology in the terminal examination of 10th Standard/Class or equivalent are eligible to participate,” announced Dr. P.T. Manoharan, IGNOU’s ‘Sir CV Raman Chair’ professor.

 Successful participants will receive certificates of merit, medals, cash prizes and awards. Top 1000 participants will be given IGNOU-UNESCO accredited merit certificates.

About 30-40 meritorious participants from the SAARC countries will be invited to IGNOU , New Delhi  to take the second test and to receive the awards in person in a special award ceremony.

 Last date for registration is July 25, 2010. For details and electronic registration please refer to the following websites: http://www.ignou.ac.in/ramanchair and

http://www.unesco.org/newdelhi/scienceolympiad .