In a bid to provide a platform to the budding technocrats to discuss various issues concerning technology and come up with new ideas, the Adityapur-based National Institute of Technology ( NIT) is hosting the largest inter-college techno management festival — Ojass 2015 .
The festival kicked off amidst enthusiasm. A total of 85 events and 1,600 students from over 40 engineering schools are participating in the fest which is on its sixth year. The attraction of the three-day fest is prizes worth Rs15 lakh.
Shrikanth Kashyap, media in-charge of the festival and student of NIT Jamshedpur said that the idea was to promote creativity among all the engineering students and also a common platform for companies and students to interact. Apart from it, there are events which would test the skills of eco-friendliness and entrepreneurship in today's world.
Nitin Gupta, an IITian and a stand-up comedian was invited on the first day to interact with students as part of the programme— Guru Gyan. The first saw a couple of events in the category- Deus-X-Machina, a complete robotics competition. While Kurukshetra was a war between robots made by participating students, Robo Soccer was where two robots played football.
"This festival had been an event of the students’ intense labour, passion and participation in huge numbers from colleges all over the country. Notably, Ojass helps all the budding engineers and to pit their skills against the best in the country in events like Business & IT quizzes, programming competitions, software presentations, case study and model creation," said an official of NIT,Jamshedpur
The festival would see some genius minds from the likes of IIT, Kharagpur, NIT, Durgapur, BIT-Mesra, BITS, Pillani, IIT, Roorkie romancing with their creative engineering thoughts during the event, he informed.