Description
It takes courage and resilience to withstand the relentless
nature and unfold the mysteries surrounding it. The master of
this discipline, a candid voyager and a clever biologist,
Charles Darwin wants to choose some worthy successors who will
walk in his shoes, utilize their grit and wit, overcoming every
crisis thrown at them and emerging victorious. Can you adapt
to this challenge? Can you avoid getting the Darwin award?
Then be a part of this fantastic adventure!
Showcase the Darwin inside you and enjoy this captivating
experience of nature that makes you choose - ‘evolve or
dissolve.’
What Would Darwin Do is a one of its kind evolution and ecology
competition which defies the monotonicity of conventional
pen-and-paper science competitions and replaces it with fun and
engaging activities that inform as to how science is conducted
in the real world. Our campus is itself a large ecosystem, with
high-tech laboratories and serene forests that coexist side by
side. Lush woods, a vibrant ecosphere consisting of various
flora and fauna, define the campus of IISc. A perfect place for
ecological experimentation, the IISc campus will expose high
school students to ecology's adventures, thrills, and
opportunities.
Event structure
The event will be held on campus, entirely offline and consist of 2 stages, The prelim, and the finals.
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The prelim will be held on campus on the second
day of Pravega, i.e., 3rd September. High
school students can register online or offline
before or after coming to the campus.
The preliminary examination will be a pen-and-paper exam structurally, but the questions will be of distinguishable creativity. Not only conventional ecology questions, but the prelim will also encompass interesting analytic questions and entertaining puzzles. We will have a 3-hour prelim from 9.30 am to 12.30 pm. - There will be small interactive sessions on the same day from 2.30 pm to 4.30 pm with our ecology professors about some recent research in their field. This can be attended by some of the top performers in the exam.
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From the initial pool of students, 24 finalists
will be chosen to participate in the stages of
the competition that will take place the
following day (i.e., the last day of Pravega,
4th of September).
On the final day (i.e., 4th of September), we will have the most distinctive sub-events of ‘What Would Darwin Do,’ which will start with a quiz competition with teams of 3.
It will be followed by highly informative lab tours where participants get to see how an ecology lab works.
The last and the best sub-event will be an exciting campus-wide treasure hunt where participants will be given indirect clues about some organisms, that will lead them to hidden treasures.
Prizes
- Prizes totaling a worth of more than 24,000 ₹ will be given to the winners of the quiz and the treasure hunt.
- Every finalist will be given a memento.
Eligibility, Rules and regulations
Refer Here
Coordinators
Contact us at: wwdd.pravega@gmail.com
