Aviral Dasgupta & Shubham Agarwal from Loyola School, Jamshedpur here on Saturday won the Kolkata leg of the TCS IT Wiz contest.

The duo would join the mega-finals in Mumbai on 14 December for the title “Smart Tech Wizards 2013”. The winners from 13 other cities and, the international leg, held in Dubai, will participate in the mega-final.

Sajjan Parida and Ananda Majumdar from Sudhir Memorial School of Madhyamgram came second in the Kolkata leg of the contest. Some 1542 students from various schools took part in the contest here.

The winners of the TCS IT Wiz 2013 Bhubaneswar edition are Prathamesh Dash and Rishav Aditya Sathapthy from Naidu (Jr) Science College of Bhubaneswar. Over 1,200 students participated in the Bhubaneswar edition.

Digital habits

Meanwhile, TCS Web 3.0 Youth Survey, a yearly study among school students studying in classes between 8th and 12th standards to get a pulse of their digital habits, revealed that 37.59 per cent of the respondents in Kolkata use a mobile phone, which is higher than the national average of 33.65 per cent.

Some of the other findings include the facts that 51.67 per cent of the city student respondents own a smart phone and 92.11 per cent rate Facebook as the most preferred social networking platform.

Some 23.32 per cent spend 2-3 hours daily on the internet, majority of the respondents (69.54) use the internet to research on school subjects, 32.16 per cent respondents use the internet to book travel tickets, 70.27 per cent respondents prefer SMS to communicate, followed by a preference for social networking websites like Facebook/Twitter (47.22%).

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