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Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and demo CERN’s fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to “rock you in the head”, and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.

The Exun eLite programming event saw huge participation with 50+ teams participating in the preliminary round.
After the written prelim round of mind boggling logic based questions, the finalists were:

Class XI

1. Sanjit Singh Batra XI K
Abhishek Jindal XI J

2. Achal Shah XI K
Aman Gupta XI K

3. Ankush Gupta XI F
Vishesh Jain XI D

4. Shashwat Garg XI K
Saurabh Bains XI K

5. Sampoorna Biswas XI G
Prachi Pande XI F

Class XII

1. G. Sidharth XII I
Nachiketa Dash XII I

2. Shikher Gupta XII F
Nikhil Nangia XII F

3. Apoorva Singh XII I
Akshay Shiv Madan XII H

4. Yuganka Sharan XII I
Anatya Vallabh XII O

The teams had the final round on computers where they were provided with options of languages between C++ and VBasic.

The Final Winners of the event were:

First Position : G.Sidharth
Nachiketa Dash

Second Position: Prachi Pande
Sampoorna Biswas

Third Position : Sanjit Singh Batra
Abhishek Jindal

Exun elite 2008 for class XIth has been concluded. The unprecedented response again shows the rising levels of enthusiasm and awareness among the students about Information Technology!
However, there were some glitches in organising the event this time which shall not occur again.

The result is as follows:

1st Position

Praachi Pandey XI-F
Sampoorna Biswas XI-G

2nd Position

Aman Mathur XI-K
Nishant Chaudhary XI-K

3rd Position

Ashish Pandey XI-F
Utkarsh Srivastava XI-I

Congratulations to all the winners!

The Exun Clan has bagged the Overall Trophy in MINET 2008 which was held at Mother’s International School on 9th August, 2008. The Clan has won the rolling trophy for 3 consecutive years now. It seems to me that the destiny of the trophy and The Clan are inseparable (^_^)
Congratulations to all winners.

Gaming (First)

• Digvijay Singh

Quiz (First)

• Kartikeya Asthana
• Anuj Bhardwaj –Well Done

Quiz (Second)

• Sameer Mittal
• Aditya Jain

Programming (Second)

• Sajal Jain
• Ankush Gupta — Indicates a bright future for the clan, well done
  

Power Point Presentation (Third)

• Adideva Sekhri
• Rohan Nagpal

Here are the solutions of Exun Elite Senior Programming Prelims. I hope you liked the event and your interest in programming and logical thinking never ends!

Please click here to view the file (pdf)

Please click here for the finals Question Paper

Best of Luck

Sajal Jain
Rahul Bhatnagar

Mothers International School’s annual symposium MINET is going to be held on Saturday, the 9th of August.

The events are as follows -

1. Programming – IX to XII – 1 team
2. Quiz – Open – 2 teams
3. Web Designing – IX to XII – 1 team
4. Digital Imaging – Open – 1 student
5. Gaming – Open – 1 student
6. PowerPoint Presentation – VI to VIII – 1 team

Teams to be of 2 students wherever applicable.

Click here for the schedule and here for the registration form to be filled out and sent to minet@themis.in

Best of luck!

The tentative schedule for Exun e-lite is as follows;

Day 1 – 8th august

• 1st-3rd Period- Programming Prelims
• 4th-5th Period- Quiz Prelims
• 6th-8th Period- G.D. Prelims

Note: Programming Finals shall be held after school tomorrow i.e. on the 8th of August ; hence be prepared.

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Date: 8th & 11th August 2008
Time: During School Hours
Eligibility: Students in 11th & 12th

Events:

• Programming – 2 Per Team
• Quiz – 2 Per Team
• Group Discussion – Individual

Note:

• Programming Finals shall be held after school
• For Registration please email at exunclan+elite@gmail.com
• Those who have registered shall get a confirmation email along with the details of the events

Date : August 6, 2008
Time : 09:00 am to 11:30 am
Venue : Computer Lab – 4

Theory
What is DirectX?
The DirectX SDK and 3D Engines.
What is a Scene.
Keyboard/Mouse Input – DirectInput.
Objects/Mesh.
Faces, Vectors and Points.
Creating primitive Shapes.
Texturing,Bump Mapping and Blending Modes.
3D Model Files – MDL, MD2, BSB, X , 3DS
Loading Models from file.
Landscape generation.
Atmospheric effects/Particle systems.
DirectDraw.

Application
Creating a Menu.
Creating a World.
Application of Vector/Matrix Algebra and Trigonometry.
Creating a SkyBox
Loading the Actors.
Collision Detection.
Keyboard/Mouse Input.
Finalizing a Game.