28th August 2008
Mount Saint Mary’s – Matrix Ecomm-Buzz Fest
Crossword and Symposium
My third time at this fest (Jointly organized by their Computer and Economics Clubs), we participated in the Symposium and Crossword.
The Symposium (For which, Vaibhav and I had worked really hard) turned out to be a disaster for us. The topic we had chosen was – Use of Computers as Decision-Makers in Sports. Vaibhav was our Visual Aid Supporter, and I was the speaker. Rohit was the interjector for our team (He was told about it a day before, as usual). They had selected around 10-12 “Best” Presentations and called up the schools. (I believe they did not get more CD’s than that!). I exceeded the limit of 2 Minutes 30 seconds by around 2 more minutes. And Vaibhav also messed it up a bit during the synchronization. Though our presentation was good, I am not quite the best of speakers. Someone from the debating team would have been a better option. But this was a learning experience and definitely I can work upon the weaknesses and mistakes we did to improve ourselves. Also a suggestion for the Matrix-Ecomm Buzz Clan – Try having only 1 or maybe 2 Topics for the Symposium rather than having 6. Judging the content of 6 different topics becomes a difficult task and it’s not a level-playing field then.
In the Crossword, we surprisingly came 2nd. Montfort School came 1st. Our score was 9 and the highest was 9. The Crossword did not have any cryptic clues, and was like a quiz-of-sorts. Again, there were some good questions and some absurd ones. But it was nice to be 2nd. We just got Individual Trophies and our certificates have not been sent to us yet! The results of the fest can be seen here.
My Rating for the Crossword – 5/10
October 9, 2008
prateekv
3 responses to “Matrix Ecomm-Buzz Fest 2008 – Mount Saint Mary’s”
Chirag Jain
October 11th, 2008 at 06:31
If a symposium has 1 or 2 topics, then it’ll be really boring – to see the same thing repeated over and over again. In fact, I’m going to Springdales, Pusa road for a symposium on 24th where Every team has an option of 2 distinct topics, so that all the participating schools have different presentations.
Chirag Jain
October 26th, 2008 at 06:59
The quiz was very well prepared. I have put up the archives for the prelims of the quiz on economics quiz and computer quiz.
prateekv
November 2nd, 2008 at 14:20
@ Chirag – But then I beg to differ there. Topics should at least be from the same stream – Say, economics or Maybe Environment or Maybe technology and so on. Atleast then, It shall be a level playing field…
Anyways, the MSM Quiz as Chirag tells us was good. Thanks for those archives 🙂