Competitions

In BCBS, there are lot of students, therefore a healthy competition is required. Annual Inter-house competitions include:

• Swimming
• Debate
• Elocution
• Dramatics
• Music
• Spelling bee
• Eureka(Quiz)
• Basketball
• Cricket
• Indoor Games

The school also hosts the following inter-school competitions:

• Synchronize is India's largest High School Science and Information Technology Festival that comprises events and competitions over a period of two days inviting teams from schools all over India. The events are:
• Blogger - blogging event,
• Clash of The Titans - debate event,
• Spark - Space Settlement Design event,
• Quest - treasure hunt event,
• Bloodwork - forensics event- it was judged the "best event" of Synchronize 2011 and the "most interesting" of synchronize 2012.
• Gadget Garage - engineering event, formerly known as Recon,
• Spectra - science exhibition event,
• Technocrat - IT event,
• Event X - mystery event,
• Dexterity - Robotics event,
• Anonymous - Ethical Hacking,
• Quad Damage - gaming event (which is also the flagship event of the fest).

Synchronize 2013
-Powered by Science. Driven by IT

The inaugural edition was held in October, 2008 and had participation by over 300 students from 24 schools.Over the years the fest gathered momentum and in 2012, the fest accommodated over 1100 participants, making it one of the largest high school fests in India.

• Resurgence is India's biggest and most anticipated commerce and economics fest that compresses the complexity and diversity of the commercial sphere into ten events which play out over a span of one day inviting teams from educational institutions all over India. The events are:
• Area-51- Cottonian version of the famous board game monopoly;
• Dalal Street- Mock stock exchange;
• Fallout- Corporate law event;
• Find X- Commerce based treasure hunt;
• Impex- Import-Export trade simulation;
• Innovation- creating,marketing and innovating new products;
• Mangerio- Test of management skills;
• Meltdown- Corporate crisis management;
• The Third Degree- Commerce and economics quiz with a cottonian twist;
• Workforce- HR based event;

Resurgence is the revival of the school's old fest which was discontinued in 1997. The first edition of Resurgence was launched in 2009 and has been going strong ever since.Over the past 4 years resurgence has grown considerably as a fest to levels of national recognition, entertaining and educating over 1000 students from all over India year after year.

Resurgence 2013
-The Phoenix will rise .

• Co-Mun where the school plays host to the Cottons Model United Nations which is a simulated UN conference and features participants from all over the city to compete to win awards such as The Best Position Paper, The Best Delegate and the Best Delegation.

COMUN 2013
"Ubi Concordia, Ibi Victoria"

• Exquizite is a quiz competition held in August every year for schools all over India. For the past five years, this quiz has been hosted by quizmaster Giri "Pickbrain" Balasubramaniam.
• Cottons' INXS is the annual music competition in western rock and pop music.

The school has students participating and winning in national level and international level competitions such as Model United Nations(MUN) around India - most notably the Indian Model United Nations(InMUN) and the Harvard Model United Nations(HMUN). The school has participated in the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition(ARSSDC) hosted in Delhi since 2008(2011 winners, 2012 runners up)and the International Space Settlement Design Competition(ISSDC)hosted at the NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas since 2011(2011 winners,2012 runners up).