Two-day long Uurja-2015, the annual youth festival of UPES, has begun with lightening of inaugural lamp by IG Amit Sinha and his wife Akansha Sinha on Saturday.
In his address to the students Sinha had given emphasis on spirit of healthy competition. Dr Shrihari, Vice Chancellor of UPES advised the students to enjoy responsibly. Instructing the students Brig Anil Sharma, Director of Student Affairs shared some broad details about the festival. Sinha also participated on the panel of Judges for the first round of Mr. & Ms. Uurja-15 contest, finals of which will be held on Sunday.
Arun Dhand, Director of Media Affairs in UPES informed that twenty individual events were organized on the first day of this festival some of which were held in parallel at various locations in the campus. Results of some of these competitions were declared instantly while second round of some of the events would be held tomorrow along with some fresh events. He also shared that Maruti Udyog with its “Maruti - Alto K10” brand is the main sponsor of Uurja -15. More than 5000 students from UPES are participating in this year’s Uurja and apart from those of other
higher educational Institutes including DIT University, Graphic Era University, IMT College, Dehradun & Shahid Bhagat Singh College and New Delhi.
“Ad: Selfie” was a competition wherein the contestants had to display their marketing skills by clicking their selfie with a product that they desired to market, the first prize of this went to Yash Palidar, Sankalp Vijayvagiya, Savthak Joshi, Yatin Mittal (BBA llB) 1st Year and the second went to Abhishek and Mayank B.Com llB 1st Year third prize went to Shivsti Uppal, Neha Walia, Tavishe Gupta, & Pooja B.Tech (CS). Other competitions were “Cinephilla”, was an Audio/ Video based Quiz competition; “IPl Bidding” competition saw contestants replicating the real time IPl bidding with a given sum of notional money and choosing from the best national and international cricketers on display and constructing the strongest and the most well balanced team; “Tying the Turban”; “I am Mad” ;”Holly – Bolly” ;”Beg Borrow Steal” and “Guess the Object”