The four day Geo Mining fest-Khanan 22 concluded at IIT (ISM) today with budding technocrats from various parts of country competing against each other in a host of events, including a Treasure Hunt-Khanan Mafia.
At the biggest mining fest of country, being organized by IIT (ISM) technology innovation hub, TEXMiN from different institutes. The participants competing against each other in host of events including the most popular and entertaining contest, titled Khanan Mafia during which they roamed around the campus searching for the hidden objects as per the clues provided to them, informed dean media Dr Rajni Singh .
The event held at the Open Air Theatre of the Institute also provided the real mafia vibes to the participants searching for the hidden clues to a series of riddles arranged in the form of an exhilarating treasure hunt.
The day also witnessed the show- Quizzine (Mining) held in two rounds during which the depth of knowledge of mining engineers was put to some tough test. The round 1 of Mining Quiz was a pen penner round held in New Lecture Hall Complex while the 2nd and concluding round was rapid fire round held at Classroom 1 of Department of Mining Engineering.
A 48 hour mining hackathon-titled, Mining Designothon, which required around the participating students to come out with designs of given problem which began on November 4 also concluded today with contestants coming up with their respective designs that exhibited their respective knowledge.
The concluding day also witnessed a resource modelling workshop which provided a real, hands on training to around 25 participants of various tech cradles from across the country to develop 3-D models of Coal Seams and non-coal reserves by working on Geovia Superpac and Geovia Minax softwares.
Muhammed Danish, Chief Business Development Officer of TEXMiN who coordinated the event said, “The workshop held at CRE building of IIT (ISM) also witnessed the participant to develop, Ore Body models and Pit Designs”.
“Altogether three teams including, two from IIT (ISM) and one from NIT (Raipur) comprising of 3-4 members each took part in the workshop preparing models based on different problem statement given to them and finally it was a team of host IIT (ISM) which proved their mettle by winning the contest working on the problem statement, Tracking of Miner’s Health for Underground Mines” summed up Danish.