Navy children school, Kochi,

: Navy Children School (NCS), Kochi team,comprising class 10 students,were adjudged winners of the prestigious National Aerolympics 2016, held under the aegis of Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI) from December 16 to 18 at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore.
The AeSI has been organising the event for classes 10, 11 and 12 students for the eleventh time in a row, with an aim tokindle basic interest in the field of aviation among youth of the country.
The quiz involves testing the knowledge in the field of not only aviation, overall awareness, innovative skills, presentation skills,as well as handling of questions by domain experts like scientists and retired Air Force officers.

The National Aerolympics 2016 was conductedin two phases with a total of eight individual events.
In the first phase, three-member teams from 58 schools from across the country prepared a project report on "Naval Aviation".
Twenty-four top teams from nine states, including many schools of repute such as VSSC school, Thiruvananthapuram, DAV public School, Amritsar and Delhi Public School were shortlisted for the second phase.

Last year's winners Bhonsala Military school, Nagpur and DAV Public School, Amritsar, won the second and third places respectively, a Navy press release said.
The Kochi team, comprising Pratyush Padmanabhan, Ashish Nayak and Aryan R R Ayyar also won individual firsts in three events - Technical Quiz, awareness quiz and project presentation, as well as individual second in Surprise Event (Gadget making).

In addition to the individual prizes, the school also won an overall Rolling Trophy,the release added.