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The Career Guidance Cell at Yuvabharathi Public School in association with IIT Madras organized a district-level Orientation programme on IIT Madras’ World’s First ‘B.Sc. Degree in Programming and Data Science for Grade 11 and 12 students’ on the 9th of July 2022 at the auditorium.
The USP of this degree programme is that it can be pursued online by any of the students in Grade XI and XII (any stream) and does not require JEE.
Ms. Kamala Ramakrishnan, Chief Manager at NPTEL and Global Head of Exam Operations of NPTEL & the IIT Madras B.Sc. program and Ms. Diya Naidu, Digital Marketer, IIT Madras B.Sc. program were the resource persons for the programme. Mr. Arun, Course Instructor, IITM joined the resource persons to answer the queries posed by the students and the teachers during the following interactive session.
Around 200 students from 20 schools in Coimbatore, Pollachi and Tirupur attended this orientation programme and 240 senior secondary students from Yuvabharathi Public School attended another session of the same programme.
Yuvabharathi has been ranked as Number 1 in the city - Top CBSE school in Coimbatore- for three years by the EducationWorld Magazine and has made it to the prestigious list of Top 50 Schools that have been recognised as 'Future 50 Schools Shaping Success '. Having established itself as the Best Public School in Coimbatore in its first decade, it is the fourth time in a row that Yuvabharathi was conferred as one of the Top Schools in India in 2022 and won accolades for excelling in the categories namely Academic Excellence, Co-curricular activities, Best infrastructure school, Excellence in Sports Education, STEM Education, Best Happiness Quotient Index School, Excellence in Inspirational leadership, Best Online Teaching Practices and the Best CBSE School by Brainfeed School Excellence Awards. Careers360 magazine awarded the Best Schools in India certificate with an AAAA+ grade to Yuvabharathi Public School for the academic years 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24.