A beginning to yet another fantastic edition of JSS Noida's Techno-Cultural Festival Zealicon '09! From 9AM to 7PM, almost 25 events took place today. With so many participants from colleges across Delhi/NCR, participating in so many events, it surely was fun!
This year, the organizing team has also started a journalism experiment. We asked certain interested students to jot down what they saw in the fest and how they felt about the events during the day. We are pleasantly surprised that some of them had the patience to sit down and write a paragraph or two after the day's hard work. As we keep getting their mails, we will keep updating this space. What's more, even you can contribute. Just put to paper whatever you saw, felt and e-mail us at zealicon2010@jssaten.ac.in (You can also send us photographs you clicked)
If you're not from JSS, we would appreciate your feedback/report/contribution/experience even more :P
Aeronautoon
(Written by - Saurabh Gupta, 2nd Year, CS)
First day, first show! Zealicon'10 began with the event Aeronatoon. This contest required the participanting teams to make hot air balloons from waste poly-bags. To launch the poly-bags and make them fly, the teams were required to heat up the air inside the baloon using some kind of an ingenious fuel (candles, or oil).
The event was scheduled at 9:00AM at the platform on top of the RO Plant. The event coordinators arrived and started to manage things at about 10:00 am and the anchors started interacting with the audience and entertaining people after a while. Soon after, teams started preparations for the launch of their balloons. It was hard to bear the scorching sun and the audience limited itself to the shade of library entrance.
In came the first team , and it was an all girl team comprising of Prachi and Shruti (both 1st year students of ECE). I must say that they made a commendable start. Their balloon was small and light and they used magic candles to produce the hot air. Here the concept of James Watt came into being and the balloon went very high in the sky within seconds. The balloon stayed in air for more than a minute.Then other teams came, some had a rocking show. Some balloons caught fire, some tilted and went down. It was fun watching the teams trying their best!
Principal Dr Narendra Kumar, Registrar Dr Shirur, CAO Cmdr Gupta and Prof RB Sharma paid a visit and appreciated the teams. The anchors Lakshya and Surbhi (both 1st Year, MT) did a good job but could not keep the audience engaged for long in the heat. At the same time some small surprises like ' who drinks the soft drink fastest' refueled the event. The first prize went to the team of Chetan, Sonam and Jyoti Bisht and the the team of Astha, Akansha, Garima and Akrosh got the second position.
Udvikas
(Contributed By - Ishan Rampal and Ashima Krishna, B.Tech, 2nd Year)
The event UDVIKAS, designed to give a podium to all the would-be entrepreneurs, started at 1:00 pm today in the seminar hall. It was presided by the judges, Ms Richa Verma and Mr Vohra from the Humanities and MBA departments respectively. There were ten participating teams, which had to go through successive elimination rounds. Each team had to come up with a new imaginary product or service and sell the idea to the audience. Many of these products sounded very feasible.
This event tested the innovation and creativity of the participants. The teams gave logical points to support their ventures and tried their best to influence the judges. Various strategies that were to be employed regarding the Product's Life Cycle were also discussed.
The teams introduced their products with the help of a presentation. A fictional sum of rupees seventy five thousand was the budget given to each team for their product development and all phases of the Product Life Cycle (PLC). Some of the innovative ideas which were appreciated by all were using teflon casing instead of plastic casing in cell phone batteries and using chairs with accupressure points in them. The former case involved using the triboelectric effect of teflon, hence saving the excess electricity used in charging mobile phones. The latter product laid stress on making chairs more comfortable.
On the whole the event was full of new and fresh ideas leaders of tomorrow.
Technical Paper Presentation
(Contributed by - Anubha Prasad CSE, 2nd year)
The event was conducted at 10:30 AM on AB-3 1st floor today. A team of two participants was to present a powerpoint presentation on topics related to one of the three pre-decided tracks which were Track 1-hardware/cheminformatics/wireless electricity, Track 2-networking and web technologies and Track 3-Mobile and Emerging computing technologies.
The time limit for each presentation was 10 minutes followed by a 5 minute discussion with the judges. The jury consisted of Mrs Gunjan Srivastaava(faculty from MCA Department), Mrs Pratibha(faculty from chemistry department), Mr Vikas Srivastava, Mrs Sabitha(faculty from Electrical Engineering department), Ms Sona Kumar, Ms Madhu Malik, Mrs Vineeta Kemchandani(faculty from Mathematics department), Ms Runumi Devi and Prof. S.S Prasad.
There were a total of 15 teams out of which few were from institutes like Jamia Milia Islamia University, HBTI Kanpur and Galgotia Institute, Greater Noida. The various topics discussed by the teams were Aquasol, witricity, Thee Intelligent Internet, Spyware and Adware, Bio-metrics in secure e-transactions, Next Generation DNA Computing, Nano-computing, Sixth-Sense Technology etc. Each team presented their outlook of the future technologies and the possible ways of implementing them in our country.
A few interesting ones were Aquasol which was about developing pollution-free vehicles that would be a combination of public vehicles like 'rikshas' and 'auto'. These pollution free vehicles would utilize vibrational energy of water molecules instead of fuels like diesal or CNG and at the same time purify the water that is being used. A presentation on 'sixth-sense' was all about providing devices that will provide various facilities to man especially physically disabled people. The event ended at around 12 pm.
Our guests from Jamia Milia Islamia University, Jaideep Singh and Anshika Choudhary presented the Aquasol paper and won the first prize. Overall, the event was very interesting, highly intellectual and very well organized.
Conclave (Group Discussion Contest)
(Written by - Shubhangi Sekhar B.Tech, 3rd Year)
Today being the first day of ZEALICON’10 ended with a great deal of participation and enthusiasm.
Conclave (Group Discussion) commenced at 3pm sharp. A huge turnup of 79 participants was managed in two parallel sessions of preliminary rounds. Each group had eight participants who exchanged their views for ten minutes after two minutes of silent thought over the topic and each one concluded with a 30 seconds ending note.
The topics ranged from controversial Kashmir issue to the grading system in boards, from relation between religion and politics to the loop holes in Indian judiciary system. The event was judged by Ms Anchal, Ms Niharika and Ms Anjali of the Humanities Dept. The patience displayed by the judges was really appreciable even when discussions took a fuming and argumentative turn.
The biggest achievement of the event was when several students who came up only as audience were also inspired to join in the discussions and they even enjoyed their experience, which was the first one for many of them.
The preliminary rounds were followed by 18 semi finalists who competed in two different GDs and lead to a final GD of 9 finalists. The winner was Sudarshan Bengani followed by Shrishti Srivastava on the runner up position.
PS - Spellathon and Text Twist were the fun events whose pamphlets were distributed before Conclave and its winners will be declared tomorrow during Rhetoric(the debate contest).
Torque
(Written by, Nandita Mathews, 3rd Year, EC)
Torque held immense promise and appeal and did not disappoint the masses gathered around craning their necks to get a peak at the mini remote control cars.What came as a surprise were the number of cars entered by teams comprising of first year students!One would have expected glitches and technical difficulties for the track was cleverly laid out with curvy turns and also at places filled with sand to effect skids,but there were astonishingly few!The first criteria/preference for judgment was the time taken to complete the track and points were deducted for any manual handling or digression from track.
The transition from playing with cars in childhood to building one in Engineering is what dreams comprise of and the event basked in the pride of all the cars that entered and the winning team that completed the track in a matter of 15 seconds!
Wirology
(Written by Nandita Mathews, 3rd Year, EC)
Every engineer is expected to be equipped with a sound knowledge of laws governing current and voltage and a fair idea of wiring in households.A team of 4 was provided with a switch board and a problem statement outlining the restrictions and the desired output.With participation from other colleges,winning,that is, completing the circuit connections in as little time as possible became a possession with our home teams.They did not fall short of our expectations and their own and won!
Events that come under ROBOTILES are good old fashioned crowd magnets as they are conceptualized around fields that are more often than not every Engineer's passion and as expected drew a larger participation from our freshers!
Air Show
(Written by Shubham Tomar, 3rd Year, EC)
The scheduled time of the event was 10 AM. In spite of the guests being present on time, the event started at 10:45 AM. In the scorching sun, the participants were waiting to see the first plane fly. Atlast, they witnessed the aero adventure at 11:00 AM, when a model plane was seen flying in the sunny sky. Using a remote control, the planes which were almost about a feet long were made to make beautiful maneuvers for almost about 10 minutes.
Runway seemed to be a bit problematic as the bumpy nature of the track made the planes land in a haphazard manner. Not only planes, but boomerangs were also flying. The arrangements made by the student coordinators left quite a bit to be desired.
The event was carried out under the direction of guides MR H. S Kalsi, Col Abu Rashid and Faculty members from the Mechanical Engineering Department. The guides helped the students with some invaluable suggestions on various topics including RC helicopter, boomerangs and flight principles. The students will definitely find the advice useful for their future endeavours.
The teams which participated in the event were tech-crunchy as the designing of a plane takes a huge input from the designer’s side. There were no winners. It was just a fun event which was planned brilliantly, but the execution was not that good. It has always been a pleasure to watch the planes fly, but this time it was below expectations.
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Compiled by Deepak N
at 11:50PM, 19th March, 2010.
