In a bid to provide platform to students of all domains under a single umbrella to work, learn and grow together three days long Techno-legal-Management festival, which was organised University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun, concluded.
In which students get exposure with various activities based competitions, debates, paper presentations, seminars, model displaying, technical games, Moot court and lectures by Experts, faculty and visiting speakers.The festival also aims to reinvent and showcase the engineering, legal and management acumen of the students.
Arun Dhand - Director (Media Affairs) informed that over hundred were organized across all the three colleges with Youth Parliament-simulation of the Indian Parliament proceedings, Auto Cadd -Imaginative abilities on the computer screen, Robowars- Technical acumen with mechanical structuring/robotics/weapon functionalities, Investors Dilemma- virtual tradinggame, Robo Soccer-Football game of robots, Client Counselling- legal advice to aggrieved clients, Scholar of the Year - Creation of Utility items from scrap as some of the flagship events along with several other events. Students from Universities and Institutes from states of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi and Punjab also participated.
Uttarakhand Space Application Centre (USAC) Director Vijay Kr Dhaundiyal advised participants to explore the sea of knowledge in pursuit of discovering truth and focus on the avenues by which mankind can best benefit from acquired knowledge. The chancellor of UPES, Dr SJ Chopra felicitated Dhaundiyal and the Pro Vice Chancellor; Utpal Ghosh thanked him for visiting UPES and inspiring the students.
Top three winners of ‘Auto Cadd’ were all from the host University and included Sanjay Chaudhary, Gaurav Tuli & Surya. Similarly all three winners from Youth Parliament were also from the host team and included Pranjul Pachori, lokesh Aidsani and Devjyoti Chakraborti. Pawan Deora & Team from UPES stood first in Robowars followed by Rishab Garg & Team from UPES and Manas Upadhya & Team from Graphic Era University. The top three winners of ‘Client Counselling’ included team from NlU- Delhi comprising of Arjun Surhewala & Siddarth Priyadarshi, team from RMlNlU- lucknow comprising of Kartikey Kulshreshtha & Geetika MA and team from NlIU-Bhopal comprising of Priyam Vada Mishra & Vinita Solanki.
All the top three winners of ‘Investors Dilemma’ were from UPES and included Aman Maithani, Vivek Sharma & lovish Gupta. The winning teams of ‘Scholar of the Year’ included teams comprising of Pooja Wadhwa & Rishab Aggarwal , Sourav Sinha & Hirokjyoti Das and Bhavdeep Singh Kalra & Shashank.Winneres of ‘Robo Soccer’ included Mayukh Chakraborti & Kunal Bahuguna from UPES and Pawan Kumar from UIT- Dehradun. Prizes for ‘Robo Race’ were claimed by Akshit Jain from College of Engineering, Roorkee and Kshitij Mittal & Abhishek Kumar from UPES.
The other dignitaries who spoke during this festival included SP Mishra- DGM(law), GAIl, Anil Kumar-Associate Professor in JP University, Solan and Deepak Bhatnagar-Director in Glokal University, Sharanpur. The special guest at “Ignite -2015” was an ex-student of UPES, Smiti Maini - a member of the core team of Mars Orbiter Mission - “Mangalayan”. She shared her experiences with the participants.