Bishop Cotton Boys' School - Competitions

Competitions

Annual Inter-house competitions include:

  • Swimming
  • Debate
  • Elocution
  • Theatre
  • Music
  • Spelling bee
  • Exquizite (Quiz)

The school also hosts the following Inter-school competitions:

  • Synchronize: India's largest High School Science and Information Technology Festival that comprises events and competitions over a period of two days inviting teams from schools all over India.The events comprise of:-
  1. Blogger(the blogging event)
  2. Clash of The Titans(the debate event)
  3. Spark(the Space Settlement Design event)
  4. Quest(the treasure hunt event)
  5. Bloodwork(the forensics event)- It was adjudged as the "best event" of Synchronize 2011 and the "most interesting" of synchronize 2012.
  6. Gadget Garage(the engineering event, formerly known as Recon)
  7. Spectra(the science exhibition event)
  8. Technocrat(the IT event)
  9. Event X(the mystery event)
  10. Quad Damage(the gaming event which is also the flagship event of the fest)

The inaugural edition was held in October, 2008 and had participation by over 300 students from 24 schools.Over the years the fest gathered momentum and in 2012, the fest accommodated over 1100 participants, making it one of the largest high school fests in India.

  • Resurgence: The Commerce Festival.
  • Co-Mun: The school also plays host to the Cottons Model United Nations which is a mock UN competition has participants from all over the city to compete to win awards such as The Best Position Paper, The Best Delegate and the Best Delegation.
  • Exquizite (Quiz): A quiz competition held in August every year for schools all over India. For the past five years, this quiz has been hosted by quizmaster Giri "Pickbrain" Balasubramaniam.
  • Cottons' INXS (Music): The annual music competition in western rock and pop music.

The school also has had students participating and winning in many national level and international level competitions such as different model united nations(MUN's) around India(most notably the Indian Model United Nations(InMUN) and the Harvard Model United Nations(HMUN),The school also has been participating in the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition(ARSSDC) hosted in Delhi since 2008(2011 winners,2012 runners up)and the International Space Settlement Design Competition(ISSDC)hosted at the NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston,Texas since 2011(2012 winners, 2012 runners up).

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