CMS students excel in HCL's national Young Problem Solvers Contest

Lucknow 10 September: Trisha Verma and Anveshika Shukla, Class VIII students, of City Montessori School Gomti Nagar and Kanpur Road Campuses respectively topped HCL’s JIGSAW 5.0, India’s Young Problem Solvers program organised by HCL Group. The program aims to raise awareness of the importance of 21st-century skills, and to build a community of young problem-solvers through a pan-India problem-solving assessment program. Over 1.30 Lakh students from 1,400 schools across the country participated in HCL Jigsaw 2024. Mr Rishi Khanna, CMS Head of Communications informed that seven CMS students namely, Trisha Verma of Gomti Nagar I; Vyapti of CMS Gomti Nagar Extn Cambridge Section; Divya Sharma and Nishant Kumar of CMS Gomti Nagar Extension; Prakhar of CMS Mahanagar and Tej Pratap Singh and Anveshika Shukla of CMS Kanpur Road Campus had made it to the Final Jury Round of HCL national Jigsaw 5.0, of which, Trisha Verma was among the three students of class 8 nationally awarded as the ‘Top Young Problem Solvers’ in Grade 8 category, and Anveshika Shukla was selected one of five national Runnners-up in the Grade 8 category.CMS Manager Prof Geeta Gandhi Kingdon congratulated these young people of CMS for their superb achievement of national eminence. She said that CMS equips students for the modern challenges of today's competitive environment, where Problem Solving is listed among the top 10 skills for future readiness by the World Economic Forum. She said CMS had introduced competency based tests two years ago which has helped our young people to learn to apply their learnings to real-life contexts.