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Tribune News Service
Amritsar, January 27
A special event was held to honour the winners of the recent coding competitions conducted by the American India Foundation (US-based NGO) for leading the way in choosing their subject in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Satinder Bir Singh, District Education Officer (Sec), inaugurated the IBM programme being run by the American India Foundation (Project Implementation Agency) in government schools. Under the programme, the top-12 students from eight schools who had won the coding competition in the district were given certificates. Parminderjit Kaur, programme officer of the foundation, said in order to rouse students’ interest in coding in the district, HT Coding was taught through Kodathon s online platform. “After the students crossed six stages on the online platform, the 12 who cleared the qualifier round secured positions at the top 50 marks were awarded today,” she said.