Chennai students shine in HCLs problem solving competition

chennai: the first edition of hcl jigsaw, india's premier critical reasoning platform designed to assess important 21st-century skills in young (grade 6 to 9) students, today announced the 12 winners of the multi-stage competition. crowned as ‘india’s top young problem solvers’, the winners demonstrated exceptional problem-solving and critical-reasoning skills through creative solutions to real-world problems that they were required to solve during the competition. out of the 12 winners, three students from chennai - nithika n (grade 8)from d.a.v public school, velachery, sai arunprasaad (grade 6) from budding minds international school and yuvankumar s (grade 6) from hiranandani upscale school were declared as india’s top young problem solvers.finalists in each grade were given problems related to specific sectoral themes. these included future of shopping (grade 6), designing smart cities (grade 7), creating an empathetic healthcare solution (grade 8), and designing an electric vehicle (grade 9).the top three students from each grade (a total of 12 students) were declared the winners of the inaugural edition of hcl jigsaw.the 12 winners of hcl jigsaw will get anopportunity to experience hcl engineering and innovation labs along with cash prizes and gadgets worth rs. 1 lakh, each.the participating students were from over 500 leading schools from across the country, including delhi public schools, shiv nadar school, the dav public school velachery, chennai, and many more.