BMQ-15

BMQ-15 will be held on 5 September 2015 (Saturday), and it’s open for nominations. Bangalore based schools and PU colleges can nominate two teams of two students each; the students are to be drawn from Classes XI and XII.

BMQ-15 will be held in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. As in the previous editions, registration of teams at 9:00 a.m. will be followed by a 45-minute written exam at 09:30 to select four teams that will participate in the Quiz round at 11:00.

The top two teams in the Quiz round will represent Bangalore in the Brahm Prakash Memorial Matarials Quiz, a national event attracting teams from all across the country. This year’s BPMMQ will be held on 19 September 2015 (Saturday) at Kalpakkam [see the brochure]; the good folks at the Kalpakkam Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals are also organizing a Metal Camp on the previous day (Friday, 18 September 2015).

For BMQ-15, each institution can nominate a maximum of two teams of two members each. The nomination letter, on the school’s letterhead and signed by the Principal or one of the teachers, must reach us on or before 2 September 2015 (Wednesday). Here’s the address:

T. A. Abinandanan
Department of Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012.

Phone: 080-2293-2676

The nomination letter may also be faxed to 080-2360-0472; or a scanned copy may be e-mailed to abinand [at] materials [dot] iisc [dot] ernet [dot] in

If you need any clarification or further information, please feel free to get in touch with me by e-mail or phone.

Due to constraints on our side, we will be able to accommodate only a limited number of teams. So, rush your nominations!

We look forward to yet another memorable BMQ.

Congratulations to BMQ-14 Winners

Our hearty congratulations to the Prize Winners in BMQ-14:

First Prize

Vinod Jacob Matthew and Naveen A
National Public School – Rajaji Nagar
V Block, Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore 560 010.

Second Prize

Ankush Roy and Manav Gurumoorthy
Kendriya Vidyalaya – Hebbal
C.V. Raman Road, Sadashivanagar
Bangalore 560 080

The Prize Winners in BMQ-14 will represent the Bangalore Chapter of IIM at the Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz (BPMMQ-14) to be held in Kalpakkam on the 20th of September 2014. We wish them all the best!

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Today’s event was similar to last year’s in that the prizes were up for grabs right into the last round of the Quiz. The performance of all the teams in the Quiz was absolutely impressive, and it was exciting to watch all of them do so well on so many questions on the physics and chemistry of materials. The Quiz rounds did have a few hiccups along the way, but everyone was pretty sporting and generous.

It’s also time to thank all the graduate student volunteers who ran the show: Urvashi Bothra, Indrani Biswas, Abhishek Agarwal, Chaitali Patil, Rahul Kumar, Rakesh R. Kamath, Naveen Kumar, Rahul G.R., Shailendra Verma, B. Girish, Md. Arif, Antareep Sharma, and Prachi Pragnya.

BMQ-14

BMQ-14 will be held on 23 August 2014 (Saturday), and it’s open for nominations. Bangalore based schools and PU colleges can nominate two teams of two students each; the students are to be drawn from Classes XI and XII.

BMQ-14 will be held in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. As in the previous editions, registration of teams at 9:00 a.m. will be followed by a 45-minute written exam at 09:30 to select four teams that will participate in the Quiz round at 11:00.

The top two teams in the Quiz round will represent Bangalore in the Brahm Prakash Memorial Matarials Quiz, a national event attracting teams from all across the country. This year’s BPMMQ will be held on 20 September 2014 (Saturday) at Kalpakkam [see the brochure]; the good folks at the Kalpakkam Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals are also organizing a Metal Camp on the previous day (Friday, 19 September 2014):

In the Metal Camp programme, the students and [their parents / teachers ] will be taken around the various nuclear facilities at Kalpakkam namely Madras Atomic Power Station (MAPS), Fast Breeder Test Reactor (FBTR) and Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) and state-of-the-art facilities for advanced research in materials and structures. The visit to the various reactor sites and the exposure to the world class research facilities would be an enthralling experience for the budding students.

For BMQ-14, each institution can nominate a maximum of two teams of two members each. The nomination letter, on the school’s letterhead and signed by the Principal or one of the teachers, must reach us on or before 20 August 2014 (Wednesday). Here’s the address:

T. A. Abinandanan
Department of Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012.

Phone: 080-2293-2676

The nomination letter may also be faxed to 080-2360-0472; or a scanned copy may be e-mailed to abinand [at] materials [dot] iisc [dot] ernet [dot] in

If you need any clarification or further information, please feel free to get in touch with me by e-mail or phone.

Due to constraints on our side, we will be able to accommodate only a limited number of teams. So, rush your nominations!

We look forward to yet another memorable BMQ.

Congratulations, BMQ-13 Prize Winners!

It’s now time to celebrate the Prize Winners by congratulating them:

• First Prize
  M. Ananth and Chayanika Bhandary
  CMR National Public School
  #2079, 2nd Main Road, 3rd Block, 3rd Stage
  HRBR Layout, Kalyan Nagar, Bangalore-560084
• Second Prize
  S. Adhiyamaan and Pratyush Prakash
  National Public School – Indiranagar
  12 A Main, HAL II Stage, Bangalore – 560 008.

The event went well yesterday, and we hope all the participants had a great time showing off their knowledge of physics, chemistry, and materials science in the written test. The Quiz round itself proved to be wonderfully competitive, with a tight race all the way to the final round. The intermediate rounds (dumb charades and connecting the pictures) brought some levity to the event; we thank all the participants for being so sporting!

It’s also time to thank all the graduate students who helped make this event possible: Ashish Shekhar, Arka Lahiri, Chaitanya Joshi, R. Lakshminarayan, and Naveen Kumar (who ran the entire show), as well as Vyasa Sastry, Hariprasad, Shalini Roy Koneru, Kaustubh Venkatraman, and Abhishek Sharma (who couldn’t be with us yesterday). We also thank Shikhar Jha, Raghunath Joshi and R. Madhavan who helped us indirectly through their contributions to BMQ in earlier years.

The BMQ-13 Prize Winners will go to Kalpakkam to participate in the Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz (BPMMQ) to be held on 21 September 2013. We wish them all the best!

And we wish BPMMQ-13 all success!

BMQ-13

BMQ-13 will be held on 7 September 2013 (Saturday), and it’s open for nominations. Bangalore based schools and PU colleges can nominate two teams of two students each; the students are to be drawn from Classes XI and XII.

BMQ-13 will be held in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. As we did in the previous editions, we will start with a 45-minute written exam at 9:30 to select four teams that will participate in the Quiz round which will begin at 11:00 a.m.

The top two teams in the Quiz round will represent Bangalore in the National Brahm Prakash Memorial Matarials Quiz which will be held on 21 September 2012 at Kalpakkam [see the brochure].

Each college or school can nominate a maximum of two teams of two members each. The nomination letter, on the school’s letterhead and signed by the Principal or one of the teachers, must reach us on or before 5 September 2013 (Thursday). Here’s the address: T. A. Abinandanan, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.

The nomination letter may also be faxed to me at (080) 2360 0472.

Due to constraints on our side, we will be able to accommodate only a limited number of teams. So, do please rush your nominations.

We look forward to yet another memorable BMQ.

Our Hearty Congratulations to …

… K. Supreeth and P.M. Prabhanjan (Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore 560 004) for winning the First Prize at the Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz (BPMMQ) last Saturday (15 September 2012)!

BPMMQ is a major national event organized at Kalpakkam every year by the Kalpakkam Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals (IIM). The Winners of First and Second Prizes at this event will receive their prizes and certificates during the National Metallurgists’ Day celebrations (which form a part of IIM’s Annual Meeting) in Jamshedpur this year.

Congrats again to Supreeth and Prabhanjan for their great performance.

Congratulations to BMQ-12 Prize Winners

Hearty Congratulations to the following teams for winning the top two slots at BMQ-12, held on 1 September 2012:

• First Prize:
  S. Badri and S. Balaji
  National Public School
  V Block, Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore 560 010.
• Second Prize
  P.M. Prabhanjan and K. Supreeth
  Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College
  91 / 2, Dr. A.N. Krishna Rao Road
  V.V. Puram, Bangalore 560 004.

These two teams will represent the Bangalore Chapter (of the Indian Institute of Metals) at the national level Brahm Prakash Memorial Materials Quiz (BPMMQ) organized by the Kalpakkam Chapter at Kalpakkam on 15 September 2012.

We wish the Bangalore teams all the best! And we wish BPMMQ-12 all success!!

BMQ-12

BMQ-12 will be held on 1 September 2012 (Saturday), and it’s open for nominations. Bangalore based schools and PU colleges can nominate two teams of two students each; the students are to be drawn from Classes XI and XII.

BMQ-12 will be held in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. As we did in the previous editions, we will start with a 45-minute written exam at 9:30 to select four teams that will participate in the Quiz round which will begin at 11:00 a.m.

The top two teams in the Quiz round will represent Bangalore in the National Brahm Prakash Memorial Matarials Quiz which will be held on 15 September 2012 at Kalpakkam.

Each college or school can nominate a maximum of two teams of two members each. The nomination letter, on the school’s letterhead and signed by the Principal or one of the teachers, must reach us on or before 30 August 2012 (Thursday). Here’s the address: T. A. Abinandanan, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.

The nomination letter may also be faxed to me at (080) 2360 0472.

Due to constraints on our side, we will be able to accommodate only a limited number of teams. So, do please rush your nominations.

We look forward to yet another memorable BMQ.

BMQ-11 Winners

Congratulations to the following teams for winning BMQ-11:

First Prize :
Sagar Honnungar and M. Amarnath
National Public School
Rajaji Nagar, Bangalore 560 010

Second Prize:
Vinuth Nagendra and Harsh S. Turakhia
MES Kishore Kendra
Malleswaram, Bangalore-560 003

BMQ-11

Yes, BMQ-11 is here. And it’s open for nominations.

It will be held on 3 September 2011 (Saturday) in the Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Each college or school can nominate a maximum of two teams of two members each. The nomination letter, on the school’s letterhead and signed by the Principal or one of the teachers, must reach us on or before 31 August 2011 (Wednesday). Here’s the address: T. A. Abinandanan, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012.

The nomination letter may also be faxed to me at (080) 2360 0472.

Due to constraints on our side, we will be able to accommodate only a limited number of teams. So, do please rush your nominations.

We look forward to yet another memorable BMQ.