ICE-22 to be a 3-stage exercise in hybrid mode, registration begins
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The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) are organizing a national-level crossword contest for students of higher education institutes between March and August in the current year. The exercise called National Inter-college Crossword Contest 2022 (NICE-22) will have three stages and will be held in a hybrid online-offline mode. joint circular issued on Tuesday by the two regulators of higher education in the country said the contest will contribute towards achieving the goal of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 which calls for a vibrant campus life and a holistic education ecosystem promoting multi-disciplinary talent among students. The circular acknowledged the efficacy of crosswords in imparting multiple benefits to students. According to the circular, some of the key benefits that the game brings to young minds are enhancing logical reasoning, stimulating problem-solving attitude, inculcating a sense of quick decision-making among other such cognitive skills.
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The contest will have a Student/Institutional Round in an online mode; five offline Zonal Rounds for North, South, West, East and Northeast; and an offline National Round in New Delhi. The first Round will be open to all students from colleges and higher education institutes to play individually. It will involve solving crossword clues online for four successive Sundays starting April 3, 2022. After the fourth Sunday round on April 24, 2022, the top two participants from each institute will form the institutions’ teams for the offline rounds. A Practice Round will be held on April 2, 2022 to familiarize the participants to the contest’s format.
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All three stages will be conducted by the Patna-based Extra-C, a civil society initiative for promoting knowledge-based co-curricular activities. All participating students will have to register on https://nice.crypticsingh.com. The free-of-cost registration has started on the website. The site will be also the hosting platform for the online round. While all participants will receive certificates, the top three teams in the National Round will receive cash prizes. Details about the format, rules and ‘How to play’ may be accessed at https://nice.crypticsingh.com. Every year, Extra-C organizes the daily online crossword challenge called A-Clue-A-Day (ACAD) for schoolchildren, college students and citizens above 60 years of age; the national-level inter-school offline CCCC Cryptic Crossword Contest; and the online-offline global Indian Crossword League. Besides, it organizes a slew of on-demand contests for corporate houses, educational and training institutes and PSUs/PSEs. Recently, the organization conducted a crossword contest for the staff and Officer Trainees of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
