Techweek
Written on March 5th, 2018 by {"login"=>"jcbitshyd", "email"=>"journal@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in", "display_name"=>"Journal Club, BPHC", "first_name"=>"", "last_name"=>""}The second edition of Tech-Week, the intra-college technical fest,
which was between the 4th and 11th of February featured a host of talks,
events and workshops.
The technical associations and clubs of campus organised talks by
eminent personalities. For instance, Panacea had a “Panel Discussion on
Entrepreneurship" by two of the very successful Pharmapreneurs: Mr.
Rakesh Gupta (BITS Alumnus), CEO of Nature Velvet Lifecare and Mr. Anup
Soans, Pharma L&D Facilitator and Editor of MedicineMan – a popular
pharma magazine. Spectrum, the Physics Association, organized a talk by
Professor Kannan Ramaswamy on “Campus life for Academic Excellence”, on
how students can make most of the resources available on campus.
Coming to events, TechWeek saw quizzing events like In-Quiz-Tive, the
Auto Quiz and Online Cryptics. Other events included “The Fault in Our
Movies”, to spot the scientific inaccuracies in films and competitions
like Plan B, Design Competition by MEA, N-Crypton, and Mathefia by
Axiom.
Workshops, too, generated a lot of interest and participation in
campus - from CruX’s DIY Workshop to troubleshoot basic computer
problems, to the Competitive Coding Bootcamps, to a series of classes on
Neural Networks, TechWeek once again showed the considerable interest
of learning and becoming technically knowledgeable.
A lot of effort had gone into organizing the events in such a planned
way - the limited time slots available, however, caused clashes between
events, putting the general body into a dilemma on which event to go
to, although some events were rescheduled to accommodate the time
clashes with other events.
Article by Poornima Venkatapuram & Aditya Gayatri Sastry