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Techniche & Udgam
conducted online
“Promoting technology,
creativity & innovation.”
Techincal Board, IIT Guwahati
A Tale of Two Tenures
Yogesh Yadav
Genereal Secretary 2020-21
Shrey Jain
General Secretary 2019-20.
I feel immense pride to see the amazing work that Technical Board has
done over the past few years and I hope we keep hearing about the
great achievements from students & clubs. My association with the
board has given various perspectives to think about one’s career and
goals to achieve during the under-graduation as well as post
graduation.
I remember the day of Techevince’2020, it felt great to see students
turning up, various professors came, finally, the director came and we
inaugurated this magazine. However, owing to the evolving pandemic
situation in the world we had to stop the event in the afternoon. On the
next day, we received a mail to vacate the hostel and return home in 3
days. I never knew we weren’t returning to campus again and I won’t get
a chance to congratulate & thank everyone who worked with us.
Apart from being in the pandemic restrictions, we’ve heard some great
achievements this year as well, mainly, hosting the Inter-IIT Tech meet. I
was recently going through a study highlighting the major institutes
giving some of the most successful start-ups to India and I look forward
to seeing IITG on that list soon.
Lastly, I would like to thank the core team of TechBoard who have
carried forward the legacy and wishing everyone my best in their future
endeavors. As highlighted below, I hope our board witnesses various
collaborations with other student groups or alumni groups to create
something exceptional for society and achieve heights as always.
"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working
together is success." --Henry Ford
I was extremely honoured and delighted to serve the Technical Board
over the years, both as the Overall Co-ordinator and the General
Secretary. I have been inspired, nervous, delighted, anxious, at times
highly strung and sometimes on hitting a roadblock, even frustrated, in
my journey. This journey however, was one of the greatest experiences
of my life and has taught me more than I had ever imagined it would.
This is a place where I got to learn so much from technical knowledge to
time management skills and where I got acquainted with some of the
best people on campus.
I’m extremely proud of what the board has achieved over the past
year, especially considering the dire and difficult circumstances it had to
endure. In such a situation, my admiration goes out to the efforts of all
the club secretaries who have put in herculean efforts throughout the
year.
During the start of this tenure, we struggled with a lot of ambiguity,
confusion and chaos. We had to shift club culture from its offline mode,
which encouraged discussions, exploration and growth, into the online
mode, while still maintaining all these values, and I am proud to say the
board managed to achieve this task.
During my tenure, we successfully collaborated with 5 organizations
and have tried to motivate and open new doors of ideas, opportunities
and innovation for the upcoming freshers & torchbearers. We also
managed to pull off the mammothian task of conducting the first virtual
Inter IIT! Of course this wouldn’t have been possible without the
constant support of the rest of the Technical Board, and I am confident
that they will be able to take themselves to newer and more inspiring
heights.
I am excited to see where the new Technical Board will take
themselves and I cannot feel any more comfortable handing over the
torch to the new team, which comprises of very capable hands.
I wish the new Technical Board all the success in the world!
In this Issue
Clubs & 4i
01
Inter-IIT
29
Aeromodelling Club
Astronomy Club
Organizing Inter-IIT
Inter-IIT Contingent
Automobile Club
Coding Club
Consulting &
Analytics Club
Design Club
E-Cell
Electronics Club
Finance &
Economics Club
IITG.ai
Quiz Club
Robotics Club
Prakriti Club
4i Lab
Events &
Competitions
Kriti
Udgam
Techevince
Techniche
Teams
Team Udgam
Team Techniche
33
41
The Technical Board
The Editorial Team
Aeromodelling Club
T
he Aeromodelling Club is a student body that works on developing
various new technologies in aerial vehicles. We primarily focus on
drones, aiming to make them smarter and easier to operate. We also
work with hobbyists on planes and First Person View Drones for fun.
The club aims to advance drone technology to empower people and
revolutionize sectors like agriculture and disaster management amongst
others.
“
The pandemic has suddenly thrown us away from our
club room to homes and put forward new challenges for
us to overcome. Thanks to a great team and club
members who took up the challenge of continuing our
development in these tough times. Being a hardware
based club and having no access to hardware was the
biggest hurdle but we overcame that and now are
capable of developing and designing our own planes and
simulating their performance in a virtual environment.
~Ajinkya Bhandare
Drone swarm for Inter-IIT 2020.
Ornithopter
The Team.
Recent
Achievements
Ornithopter (from Greek ornithos "bird" and pteron "wing") is an
aircraft that flies by flapping its wings. Its main goal is to imitate the
flapping-wing flight of birds, bats, and insects. Usually, these
prototypes are built on the same scale similar to their real flying
creatures. CAD model of prototype-1 successfully completed.
Reaper
Reaper, the surveillance drone, was the clubs first attempt at designing a
drone. The design was inspired by the General Atomics MQ9 “Reaper”.
Everything from the airfoil to the aspect ratio was independently
determined. The design was further refined after various field tests - the
designing of a v-tail being one of the major challenges. After three
prototypes the final airframe was constructed and flown successfully
during Techevince and the live FPV feed was also displayed on a monitor.
This project provided a great insight to the members about the
challenges faced during designing a drone and has laid groundwork for
further projects.
Various propellors used
in R/C aeroplanes.
Best Club
Award
Technical Board
IIT, Guwahati
-2020-21
Silver Medal
DRDO DGRE
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
Silver Medal
DRDO SASE
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2020
Reaper project showcase during Techevince’20.
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Astronomy Club
Equinox
W
hen the lights go off and the campus sleeps, the nocturnals of IIT
Guwahati at Equinox spend their nights under the starlight. Peering
through the night sky and learning the wonders of the universe is our
favourite pastime. Partnering with a wonderful set of telescopes, we
navigate through the skies. A lot happens under the roof too, as we host
weekly discussions on the fundamentals of astronomy and astrophysics.
Our club is the only pure science club in IIT Guwahati and many of our
members are avid science and research enthusiasts.
“
Being a part of Equinox has been one of the best
experiences on campus. I met people who shared my
enthusiasm for spending hours peering through the night
sky. The discussions about Astronomy and the exchange
of ideas were certainly the best moments, and I wouldn't
change any of those.
~Tapan Mayukh
The Stargazers of IIT Guwahati.
We also made a web
based visualization
tool for displaying the
High and Low Energy
X-ray catalogue,
observed by AstroSat,
India's first dedicated
multi wavelength
space telescope.
Ongoing Projects
Astronomical spectroscopy is our observational project, where a
diffraction grating attached to a telescope will be used to perform the
spectroscopy of different stars and nebulae. By analysing the data we
can conclude properties like the star’s temperature, type, methane
atmosphere of Uranus and Neptune, the sun’s composition and possibly
the redshift of a Quasar.
Our other project comprises of data analysis. We analyse existing data
available on exoplanets and extract details based on the transit model
of exoplanet detection. Also, data on stars is being analysed to fit them
into the HR diagram and make predictions on their stellar evolution
pattern.
T
elescope observations and then the analysis of their results has always
been a major part of the activities of the club. With the limitations
imposed by the lockdown, we had to turn to online methods. Multiple
hands-on sessions were arranged to equip the members with softwares
such as Universe Sandbox and Nasa Virtual Skyview Observatory. These
were then used to bridge the gaps and continue with the observatory
activities of the club.
Image of the Moon
captured by the Equinox
team.
Image of Jupiter
captured by the
Equinox team.
Recent
Achievements
Silver Medal
ISRO's Web Based
Visualization Tool for
Astrosat Observations
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
Astronomy Quiz. Kriti’19
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Automobile Club
IITG Racing
T
he Automobile Club of IIT Guwahati comprises of young, hardworking
individuals with a shared passion for automobiles. Our love for the latest
technologies and innovations in the realm of automobiles drives us to
design and fabricate vehicles of our own. We take part in various
national competitions like Formula Bharat, SUPRA SAE, SAE NIS
EffiCycle.
Formula Bharat
“
At the end of an eventful and a challenging tenure, I wish
to acknowledge the efforts and support of the core team,
our mentor seniors and the constant support from my
helpful juniors. I thank everyone in the team for making
my tenure successful.
~Kumar Kartikey
We are currently working on a Formula-style car for participating in the
next Formula Bharat competition. The design of the project has been
completed and the manufacturing is slated to start once the campus
reopens.
B
eing a hardware-oriented club working during the pandemic was hard
for us. Despite that, club members have shown determination and we've
organized various software hackathons and have completed the major
design process of our new car "Tachyon 3.0". Two new batches were
inducted into the club in the course of the pandemic, which was
undoubtedly not easy.
Left to right : Concept A & Vision F.
Vision F
Vision F is an electric
vehicle with a carbon
fibre body. It has a max
speed of 175 kmph
Vision F.
In collaboration with the Electronics club, we have organized a concept
challenge in which participants have to design a powertrain package for
an Electric vehicle.This event is currently going on and 15 finalists will be
shortlisted to participate in the FSEV competition scheduled to happen
from 30 July to 1st August.
So far, we used to make CAD models of our car but since the last year
our newly formed design team has also worked on poly models for
concept generation and better visualization. We've made two concept
cars which you can see on our club website. We have completed the
major design portion of our Formula Student car. We organized
workshops for softwares like Solidworks, MATLAB, and ANSYS for
freshers. Projects were given at regular intervals for better
understanding and practice of softwares. We organized lectures on
various subsystems of cars exclusively for club members.
Concept A
Concept A is a combustion
vehicle car with
a carbon fibre body
which can reach speeds
upto 110 kmph with a
KTM 390cc engine.
Concept A.
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Coding Club
B eing the coding club of a technical institution, we do pretty much
everything and anything related to coding. Coding events, workshops,
hackathons that is, 48 hours non stop coding, contests are just to name
a few. We believe in coding our problems away.
“
Arriving at the orientation of the club during my first
year, I was amazed at the wide range of opportunities
and fields we can explore in the name of “coding”. Hence,
it was a great honor to accept the role of Secretary and
take the club to unscaled heights in the middle of the
pandemic with the help and support of all my club
members.
~Ritwik Ganguly
Tech Stack used for
Interview Tracker :
HTML/CSS
Node.js
MongoDB
BootStrap
Tech Stack used for
Research Assistant :
HTML/CSS
Flask
Pytorch
Javascript
Interview Tracker
Interview Tracker is an application to
crawl websites like LeetCode &
InterviewBit & gather information on
questions solved on a particular
topic/category and display a
performance graph. Users can set a
threshold on the minimum number of
questions to be solved from each topic
and compare his/her strengths and
weaknesses and track his/her
performance.
~headed by Sourav Goel
& Jatin Dhingra.
Code Wars
The club proudly conducted its first-ever competitive programming
tournament on a Discord server. It allowed two programmers to have a
one-on-one face-off, solving 4 to 5 problems in a stipulated time. It was
a programming competition, with the excitement of a knockout
tournament.
Coding Club Orientation.
Recent
Achievements
Gold Medal
Saptang Labs's
Network Security
Hackathon
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
Research Assistant
Research Assistant is a chatbot that
can accept a long article or document,
analyze the content and answer
questions based on it. We developed
and deployed a web-based portal. This
is helpful when we need answers fast
but don’t have time to scan/read the
whole document.
Codejistsu
The club collaborated with Dare2Compete on behalf of IIT Guwahati to
organize Codejitsu, an online competitive programming challenge as part
of the Online Hackathon Festival (OHF) Season 2. The Festival was a
national level competition that involved almost 30+ hackathons, with
participation from IIT’s, NIT’s and other premier institutes.
Silver Medal
ISRO's Web Based
Visualization Tool for
Astrosat Observations
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
2 Finalists Teams
Grand Finale
Smart India Hackathon
-2020
~headed by Yashwanth M.
The pandemic-caused online semester had its pros and cons in the
journey of our club. With the benefit of being a software club, we could
continue our activities smoothly. Attendance in our lectures and
competitions were high. However, club meetings in the online mode
didn’t have the same close-knit feeling as earlier. We achieved most of
our objectives set at the beginning of our tenure. Hopefully, we
contributed to the overall technical development of the campus as well.
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Consulting &
Analytics Club
“
This was an unconventional tenure full of challenges that
none of us had seen before - and at the same time a very
enriching experience for my leadership and team
management skills. We achieved new heights, fulfilling
our mission to empower the people in the community
with knowledge through free and open resources.
~Gaurav Agarwal
The Consulting and Analytics Club of IIT Guwahati is a student body
aimed at helping students explore the world of management consulting
and data science. It is a collective for like-minded individuals operating
through a ‘knowledge-session’ approach. The club encourages
application of knowledge thus gained by participating in competitions
and by working on live projects. The club has also organised a multitude
of international-level events in collaboration with various corporate
partners. Club members have won laurels at events at national and
international levels, having represented the institute in Business Case
Studies, Data Analytics competitions and countless other case study
events.
Strategy Storm
The flagship social business case competition of the club, Strategy
Storm 2020 was conducted over 3 days fueled by caffeine, networking
and partying. The event saw participation from countries like Canada,
Indonesia, Thailand, Italy, and almost all IITs/NITs/IIMs, putting it
among the largest case competitions worldwide.
The Team.
Club Activities
The club also conducted
a variety of
intra- club events. 9+
data science, ML, and
NLP projects catering
to different innovative
applications were
ideated and worked on
by the first-year
members.
Hackathons were
organised on both consulting
and analytics
fronts. While ‘viz.it’
catered to visualisation
of the academic grade
dataset of IITG
students, ‘Do It Like
Tesla’ was a marketing
case study hackathon.
Summer Analytics
Strategy Storm’20.
A free primer course on data science, the bootcamp covering data
science essentials saw a participation of 4500+ from 18+ timezones -
from students to experienced working professionals.
Cascade Cup
Organised for the first time in association with Trell, the Cascade Cup
was a national-level data science hackathon. The event brought in INR
1.5 lacs of sponsorships, and is only set to touch newer heights - as is
the legacy of the club.
Recent
Achievements
33rd rank worldwide in
Creative Shock.
Top 60 out of 4500+
participants in IIM-A’s
Armageddon consulting
strategy competition
W
ith the lockdown forcing everyone inside, the last tenure was an
exercise in patience and persistence, and our powerhouse of a team
made it possible to disseminate knowledge with even more gusto than
before. Members were inducted into focus groups for both the C and
the A of the club, with detailed discussion sessions within each. Events
were planned with a massively expanded reach, and the club culture
remained intact via calls and competitions. It is safe to say that the
lockdown did not lock-down the spirit of the C&A club.
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Design Club
White Space
White Space Design club offers a place for the students of IIT
Guwahati to explore their interests in design. The main focus of the
club is on exploring fields of design, conducting workshops for
students, setting up design competitions and providing members real
life experiences through projects. It is a place where people from
various fields can come together to collaborate on a project of their
choosing.
Projects
“
This club was founded with a vision to create a safe
space within campus for all students to explore the
different fields of design in collusion with the different
kinds of expertise students from various departments
bring in.
~Shagun Maskara
~Disha
The Government e-marketplace (GeM) approached us for a long term
relationship that would mainly focus on website redesigning. A team
was formed consisting of a healthy mixture of seniors and juniors so
that the work information could be passed on once the seniors passed
out. In the last few months the design team has worked closely with
the GeM representative and their coding team to make improvements
on the existing website.
The institute NIPER Guwahati, approached the club for a redesign
project of their website. A design team was assigned for the same that
worked in close contact with the NIPER team and the coding club of IIT
Guwahati to achieve that goal.
Virtual Trip
Virtual trip was an online challenge followed by a tutorial session for
the challenge that included four fields of design namely;
Graphic design
UI/UX design
Product Design
Photography
This challenge was a set of four problem statements, one for each field
and all revolving around the same theme. We provided resources for
basic information on that particular field along with the problem
statement over the period of 12 days. Once the challenge was over we
conducted a tutorial workshop for each field with a team of four
mentors who walked the people through the process of attempting such
a challenge after explaining some basic concepts of the particular field.
The Team.
DFRAME was a
collaboration with
Udgam, we
released a UI/UX
challenge during
the Annual
Entrepreneurship
Summit of IIT
Guwahati.
We conducted a
virtual workshop
where 3D
modelling experts
taught the basics of
blender to an
audience of about
50 consisting of
people both from in
and out of
campus.
TASHKIL
This year was the first edition of Tashkil, an annual event consisting of a
series of keynotes and panel discussions featuring IITG Alumni. The
theme in this edition was “Career in Design” and the event consisted of
four alumni with various career approaches who gave insightful keynote
speeches each followed by a panel discussion. The event was a huge
success, with registrations crossing 500 followed by amazing turnout
and further discussion. This event introduced the club to the prominent
members of the Design community of India.
How do you build an entrepreneurial mindset?
1
Be (more)
curious
2
Get (more)
uncomfortable
Observe Learn Create
3
Build (more)
stuff
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E - Cell
A
t E-Cell IIT Guwahati, we crave and explore the constantly evolving
world of entrepreneurship and start-ups. We host various webinars,
podcasts and book summaries, innovative games, brainstorming
sessions, and competitions to spread the essence of entrepreneurship.
We also host the most prominent annual entrepreneurial summit of the
northeast, “UDGAM,” an event centered around entrepreneurship.
“
E-Cell has always been more a family than a club for me.
Rather than working from home, the past year was more
of working away from home - E-Cell Room. Leading a
diverse bunch of people seemed daunting but I
thoroughly enjoyed it. It was this ever encouraging group
of people and the challenges and setbacks we overcame
together, that made this one hell of a year. I can
undoubtedly say I have grown as much as I have learnt.
Words cannot come close to what an overwhelming
experience it has been.
~Akshat Gupta
Startups
& E-Cell
Flyzy is a
startup by
E-Cell alumni
Deepak Meena and
Hansraj Patel which
has been recognized by
Startup India &
Ministry of Education.
Y Combinator at IIT Guwahati
We were honored to conduct a discussion on
“Breaking the Myths about Starting up “ with
Michael Seibel, the CEO of Y Combinator. The
other panelists were IIT Guwahati Alumni. Y
Combinator is an American seed money startup
accelerator. It has launched over 2,000 companies,
including Airbnb, Dropbox, Twitch, and Reddit.
Scavenger Hunt
Scavenger hunt, a treasure hunt event conducted by E-Cell IIT Guwahati,
is one of freshman year’s most memorable and anticipated events.
This year, the entire event took place virtually. It is probably the first
event for freshers to explore campus, promote entrepreneurship, and
develop logical reasoning and out-of-the-box thinking.
Zero to One
Zero to One is a series of sessions which include analyzing a startup,
identifying the current problem, ideating possible solutions, and pitching
the startup based on problem and solution. This activity is done for the
team itself to give them an insight into the startup world.
E-Cell Heads 2020-2021
LensHood is a
startup by
Bhargava
Yalamati and
E-Cell alumni - Mukesh
Babu, got selected to
the MIT Innovation
Bootcamp.
Edvizo, is an
IIT Guwahati
alumni startup
which received
150 thousand dollars
funding from IP
Ventures, the judges of
Disrupt, the pitching
battle conducted under
UDGAM.
Udaan Rojgar
is a campus
startup which
got selected for Misfit
round 2 from the
northeast zone
through E-Cell.
Workshops & Lecture Series
This year, E-Cell conducted many Webinars and Panel Discussions to
promote Entrepreneurship even in this online scenario. We had speakers
like Ex-VP Paytm, Mr.Saurabh Jain, Markus Buck, Co-founder of
DueDash, and an Ed-tech panel with 100X entrepreneurs.
Content Initiative
Everyone can read, but we create content that makes you read on and
on and has the power to enlighten you to the next level. We at E-Cell
give you all that you want to know about startups, entrepreneurs, and
their common goals. With 1000+ pages worth of content, 200K+
impressions, 21K+ accounts reached, and three posts featured by huge
organizations that went viral.
Useful for writing
down Ideas
Useful for
thinking new Ideas
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Electronics Club
T
he Electronics club aims to provide a platform to explore the world of
electronics through hands-on experience. We strive to aid students in
acquiring practical knowledge and taking part in innovative projects
which help them contemplate, discuss, debate and tackle real-life
challenges. Teamwork and bonding is what runs our club and helps us
strive.
“
Being a club that extremely relies on the physical
presence of people, I felt a bit nervous when I first heard
that a hardware club was going online. I felt that this
would restrict the interactive sessions that would've
been possible earlier and felt that the online mode would
tarnish the legacy and reputation that the club has
garnered over the years. It was then that I realized that
it is easy to manage events when things fall in place, but
the true test is during the rainy times. With a team filled
with enthusiastic people whose vision resonated with
mine, my team filled with second and third year students
organized various workshops, had several projects
completed and held event sessions too. As days went by,
the extensive time we spent as a team together bound us
as one and now today I am proud to call myself a
member of this family.
~Keerthivasan S K
Our Projects
Face Recognition in
Real Time using
computer vision
Although we spent the year far-apart, the journey we have shared
together has been hell of a ride and made amazing memories.
We came up with some of the cool projects that could be implemented
online.
We developed various innovative projects like Advanced Encryption
System,Forward Error Correcting (FEC) code, using FPGA and Verilog,
and Sales Forecasting and Face Recognition in Real Time using
computer vision, ColorIt which uses a deep learning-based approach to
colour black and white images.
This just being a glimpse of some of the projects, but not all.
The Team.
T
he recent months have been demanding for all of us due to the
pandemic. Even through these difficult times where everyone was stuck
at their home, we remained in contact with one-another virtually and
worked hard to provide the IITG fraternity a platform to discuss
innovative ideas and nurture their electronics skills via projects and
online interactive sessions. The pandemic might have restricted our
movement but not our team bonding and progression. As a result, we
have launched our first ever "Far from Club- AtMegaman" program with
an aim to teach and motivate our fellow mates.
Hands-on Devices.
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Finance &
Economics Club
To begin with, we, at the Finance & Economics Club, share an equal zeal,
love and passion for learning the various aspects of the fascinating and
extensive world of economics and finance. From the popular stock
market trading to the complicated mathematics of risk management,
from the debates on economic ideologies to the synergies of tech giants
joining hands, we explore everything, we study everything. With every
passing year, we not only try to inculcate more horizons but deliberately
work towards bettering this community. FEC is a relatively new club
which definitely becomes evident from the way we function. At FEC, we
have each member contributing in their own unique ways, everyone
feels a sense of responsibility because everyone here has that one idea
they believe would take the club to greater heights.
Initiatives
“
Well, first of all, my tenure started in
strangecircumstances, with covid all around of course.
We were all alone at our homes, unlike the normal times.
This definitely called for a complete transformation of
every existing idea. Our club saw a huge rise in the team
count this year. From 9 in the past year, we grew to over
70 after an indeed interesting recruiting session. We also
conducted our first flagship series of webinars, even
hosting the deputy governor of RBI as one of the
speakers. We conducted multiple sets of Pan-IIT
competitions, along with some wonderful industry
collaborations. We tried to dwell upon every possible
direction and covered a lot in the process. It was for sure
a lifetime experience!
~Tushar Bohra
FEC Capital, a student-run mutual fund with an AUM (Asset Under
Management) of ₹50,000 is about to release soon. It will be India’s first
student-run mutual fund. Under the domain of quant, we develop and
backtest numerous trading strategies and algorithms, all followed by
academic discussions, intra-club competitions, and hackathons.
Competitions
FEC co-hosted the Pan IIT Crypto Trading Competition accross 8
different IITs. IIT Guwahati ranked 4th among the top 8 IITs in the final
standings of the competition. We also organized a campus trading
competition, to promote the culture of stock trading and investing
among the campus students. Hosted an AMA with the experts from
D-Street to solve the difficulties faced during the sessions.
The Team.
Recent
Achievements
Finalists
PM Live
IIM Ahemdabad
-2020
Finalists
MICA
Impetus 2.0
-2020
We also publish a weekly equity research report named InFocus. It is
aimed at breaking down one of the most happening stocks of the week.
As for November, our selections gave a whooping 15% returns above
the index for 3 months.
Events
WE launched FEC Masterclass, our flagship event aimed at giving
exposure to the students from the pioneers of the industry. We
achieved to leave an impact on 2,000+ unique individuals from 50+
organisations, with a phenomenal feedback from speakers as well as
participants. We also co-hosted FinFest along with the Finance clubs of
IIT Bombay, Delhi & Kharagpur.
2019 club orientation.
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IITG.ai
IITG.ai is a platform for the AI community of IITG to discuss, learn and
collaborate on advancements in the field of AI. Within a short span, we
grew from just 4 members to nearly 50 and we only look forward from
here. We create a culture of contribution to the dynamic, fast-changing
world of AI research.
T
“
During my time at IITG.ai, I got to learn, work, connect
with a wide range of people including my own peers,
seniors, and various mentors and I shall forever be
grateful for that. It was indeed a pleasure to lead IITG.ai.
~J. Neeraja
he Inter IIT Tech Meet 9.0 proved to be a golden time for the club. 2
of the 3 high-prep events were pertaining to Artificial Intelligence, and
hence, fell under our domain. As expected, IITG.ai did amazingly well in
both of those events.
The Team.
Recent
Achievements
Gold Medal
Bridgei2i's
Automatic Headline
and Sentiment
Generator
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
Silver Medal
BOSCH's Traffic
Sign Recognition
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
The first event was Bridge2i Automated Headline and Sentiment
Generator. The event required us to build an automated system for
segregation of text into mobile tech and non-mobile tech classes and
further identifying the mobile brands associated and finding the
associated
sentiment with the
brand. The team
won the gold medal
with 92% test
accuracy in Mobile
Tech classification
and 94% test
accuracy in Brand
recognition.
Inter-IIT’21 Bridge2i Team.
Machine Learning Research
Weekend
MLRW was a long-time vision of the club members- a dream for a
research-intensive weekend where prodigious people would come and
present their ideas. The inaugural MLRW commenced on 4th March
2021. It featured webinars from industry experts and leading professors
from prestigious institutions such as IITs, Google AI, and Microsoft
Research Labs. At the same time, it was also a platform for the club
members to present their research amongst their peers. Finally, an image
colorization hackathon was also organized. Overall, MLRW proved to a
supremely enriching for the AI community and has set the precedent for
more such events to happen in the future.
Projects
at IITG.ai
Image captioning using
Bahdanau attention.
The Output States : “A
person is jumping off a
high high in the air.”
Bacteria Taxonomy
Classification via
Bacteria 16-sRNA
sequence.
The second event was Bosch traffic sign recognition. The event
required us to enhance and modify the German traffic signal dataset,
build a baseline model on the same, and then create a UI for adding
data to the dataset and analyze the baseline model’s performance on
the new, enhanced
dataset. The team
won a silver medal
in this event with
the baseline model
being 99.51%
accurate.
Inter-IIT’21 Bosch Traffic Sign Team.
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Quiz Club
Acumen
A
cumen, the quiz club, is one of the oldest clubs on the campus. The
club nurtures and propagates a culture of quizzing in the institute and
aims to evoke and sharpen quizzers’ innate logical reasoning skills. At
our core, we like to think of ourselves as a group of all-knowing
knuckleheads.
“
I consider myself lucky to be a part of the quiz club
where our focus is that everyone is welcomed, and we
have opportunities for people interested in anything
quizzing, from business to pop culture.
~Revanth Turlapati
Anatomy of
a Question
Quiz Month
What looked like a bleak year for the club amidst the pandemic saw a
turn of fortunes starting April 8th. We were messing about on our
Facebook group, lamenting the cancellation of QuizWeek, when
someone suggested an online QuizWeek. Before we knew it, posters
were made, quiz topics were claimed, and schedules were drafted.
Holding QuizWeek online gave us the advantage of opening it up to
everybody. Anyone could volunteer and host a quiz on their favourite
topic. We discovered new avenues, ranging from Design and Star Wars
to Conspiracy and even NSFW!
The Team.
Q)What word traces its
origin to the Italian
Word for ‘forty days’,
which stipulated the
time period of
something to 40
days?
What started as a week turned into a month as more and more people
showed up, eager to put their hidden trivia and intellect to use. For a
month, through those 32 quizzes, Acumen reached thousands of people
who discovered how much fun quizzing could be. In the end, that's
what it was all about. QuizMonth encapsulated the finest bits of
Acumen in a month-long fiesta of knowledge.
The pandemic was brutal on the quiz club. After all, in the age of tech,
the answer to any question is just a Google search away. Despite the
entire club racking their brains to figure out how to curb cheating in
online quizzes, we found no solution. Eventually, quizzes went ahead as
usual, with the participants being trusted to uphold the ‘spirit of
quizzing’.
Surprisingly, this resulted in some fantastic quizzing from our entire
community- from quizzing veterans to bored freshers. Winners had great
rewards in store for them, but more than the rewards, the quizzes were
about a release- a much-needed distraction from the terse atmosphere
COVID had constructed.
Q)Finding out this
meme’s name has been
left as an exercise to
the readers.
Ans)Loss is a strip from
the webcomic Ctrl +
Alt + Delete. It
garnered a legacy as
an internet meme for
its minimalistic
representations of the
basic visual structure.
Ans)The question
provides an insight
into the mind of
quizzers. We love
hidden easter eggs,
and generally, the
questions refer to
something which is
topical or common
knowledge. The quizzer
zones into the key
words in the questionhere,
'forty days'. So, a
major clue + really
obvious topical answer
is the basis of your
guesswork, and there
you go, the answer
stares at you right in
your face, 'Quarantine'!
Quiz Team in action during the Inter IIT Cult Meet.
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Robotics Club
W
e are a group of tech enthusiasts who believe in a bigger vision of
knowledge through exposure. From small utilities to fully-fledged
multifunctional bots, we have potential to pull it off right from scratch.
The only prerequisite to join us is a mind ready to grab all we have to
offer and a dedication to build the unimaginable.
“
As everything went online, my tenure was no exception
to it. Organizing events, formulating courses, and
building projects that too without hardware wasn’t easy
in the online mode. However, these odds didn’t deter our
zeal, and the whole team adapted appreciably well to
the situation. Workshops and hackathons at the national
level and initiation of our own Mars Rover Team-
YUVAAN were a few of the many milestones we
achieved, and the total credits go to my team. In
conclusion, I would say this tenure had a lot in there to
learn and think non-conventionally for a while.
~Himanshu Singh
Yuvaan
This year with YUVAAN – “the Mars rover”, we
marked the beginning of our reach into space
technologies. Space tech is an aspect of robotics
still under research that has found a way into our
“ecosystem”.The primary endeavor of Yuvaan was
to understand what goes inside the core of a
hyped space expedition program. It is aimed to be
a powerful portrait of intricate technology that
becomes a man-made eye, hand, and even
laboratory, miles and miles away from us.
The Team.
Recent
Achievements
Gold Medal
RuTag’s Agrobot
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2021
Silver Medal
DIC’s Terrace
Farming Robot
Inter-IIT Tech Meet
-2020
Silver Plaque for DIC’s
Terrace Farming Bot,
Inter-IIT’20.
Invicta
Invicta was a workshop-hackathon event in the domain of Image
Processing and Computer Vision conducted by the Robotics club. We
saw over 450 hackathon participants and over 500 workshop attendees.
Agrobot
Agrobot is an all in one utility robot capable of performing some very
basic yet non-trivial agricultural tasks like ploughing ,seeding and
weeding.
Agrobot designed and built for Inter-IIT Tech Meet’21.
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Prakriti Club
4i Lab
T
he Techno-environmental club of IIT Guwahati, also known as the
EcoTech Club, is a student body that focuses on technological
advancements with sustainable development. We also deal with how
scientific developments can be utilized for the betterment of the
environment. Some of our recent projects were Ml-based. In one of the
projects to help farmers, we predicted the optimum crop after analyzing
the soil and climatic conditions.
4i lab is an initiative undertaken by various IITs, established with the goal
of conducting applied research in engineering technologies relevant to
industrial and societal tasks, and to understand the science, engineering
and social role of technology and how it can shape our future. The four
I’s stand for Ideation, Innovation, Incubation, and Implementation.
At IIT Guwahati the initiative aims to empower everyone in the campus
with the opportunity to put forward their ideas, knowledge, and
creativity which can be used effectively to solve real-world problems
innovatively and efficiently with the use of technology. It also provides
resources to incubate and implement these projects, translating
scientific achievements into societal and commercial gain.
Prof. Karuna Kalita
Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering
Incharge, Ideaspace
Prof. Pankaj Biswas
Dept. of Mechanical
Engineering
Faculty Coordinator
Solar Street Light
Our latest project was started to replace all the street lights with solar
power-based street lights. The solar panel was dynamic for maximum
efficiency, so the sun rays are always perpendicular to the surface. With
this as a one-time investment, the annual electricity cost will be
decreased drastically.
“
With the current pandemic situation, shifting everything to an
online mode was very difficult. Getting no access to the
resources while working with the hardware projects was the
biggest challenge. But as said, "fighters are born in extreme
conditions," the team's fighting spirit was never down. Thanks to
our seniors for supporting us in a challenging situation. they
never let our morale down at any point of time. Also, kudos to
all team members for not giving up. It was a wonderful
opportunity to get associated with this club.
25 | Clubs & 4i
~Aman Bansal
Prakriti Club at Techevince’20.
Numaligarh
Workshop
A social initiative
started by the club
three years ago.
Our team visits the
underprivileged
schools of
Numaligarh to
teach them about
different
technological
advancements used
daily. This escalates
their interest in
science.
ARLE
ARLE
Automated Robot for Library Enhancement is an effort to make an
automated mobile robot capable of managing books in the institute
library (picking and placing them in the correct racks) using an arm
placed on a mobile robot. It is a very cumbersome task to locate a
particular book and put it back on the same rack. There is also a big
scope of human errors if done by humans and it becomes difficult to
correct these errors. ARLE is primarily being developed to manage
libraries but its use can be extended to warehouses, shops, inventories
and restaurants.
~headed by Akhil Soni.
Prof. Harshal Nemade
Dept. of Electronics &
Electrical Engineering
Faculty Coordinator
Prof. Chandan Karfa
Dept. of Computer
Science & Engineering
Faculty Coordinator
Prof. Arnab Sarkar
Dept. of Computer
Science & Engineering
*Now in IIT KGP
26
Raman
Our aim is to build a social interactive humanoid which can communicate
with other human beings like a normal person and do all the tasks a
human can with better precision. We do this with the integration of
various amazing technologies like computational neuroscience, Artificial
Intelligence, speech recognition, compliant grasping manipulation,
cognitive robotics, robotic navigation, & perception. Project Raman is a
powerful android robot being designed in the form of an adult human
with the a whole variety of features and abilities. It can detect and
locate objects, faces and recognize faces. Raman can retrieve chat
responses based on
classification and clustering
algorithms for pre-programmed
questions and Artificial
Intelligence will answer general
questions. It can plan path,
avoid obstacles and understand
the surrounding environment.
Raman has hands that are
capable of performing some
physical tasks. It has a 6-wheel
base for the locomotion. Raman
has 3D object localization and
tracking as well as trajectory
estimation.
~headed by Vidya Sagar Vepa.
AntahSagari
Underwater Vehicles can be used as survey
platforms to map the seafloor or characterize
physical, chemical, or biological properties of
the water. Our ROV, Antahsagari, is capable of
underwater motion in three directions. SLAM
(Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) is
used for guiding marine movement and
real-time mapping of its surroundings. ROS
forms the underlying framework for
integrating various subsystems at the
software level, it receives raw data from each
sensor, which is then processed by different
components of the project for path planning
and detection.
~headed by Suman Kumari.
Raman
AntahSagari
SLAM
Navigation
To navigate in such an
environment, it maps
the local environment
by using a depth
camera and by
localizing itself on the
area’s
amp
simultaneously, which
is known as SLAM. It
maps its own path
using SLAM, and even
avoids obstacles in its
vicinity.
LEO
CubeSAT
Our next aim is to send
a bio satellite in the
lower earth orbit to
study the behaviour of
microbes in the upper
atmosphere( A.K.A the
lower earth orbit).
HABSAT
The 1st phase consists
of a balloon satellite
which aims to
understand the
behaviour of certain
microbes in the lower
stratosphere(approxima
tely 20-30 kms above
ground level).
InNDrone
“
4i Lab is the perfect place to inculcate innovation,
imagination and growth in their truest sense. It's a place
where your creation, no matter how insignificant it may
be at one point, can live on to become something big
and impactful. The projects and ideas conceived here
evolve with time. Being the 4i Lab coordinator has given
me a chance to meet and guide many innovative minds
on campus, and for that, I am forever grateful. With the
constant support of professors, project heads, seniors
and alumni, we have grown strong over time, kindling the
spirit of innovation and technology within us.
~Mrinal Kanti Mahato
To fly autonomously, drones need to
know their position in the environment,
and hence need GPS. But in closed
indoor environments finding GPS is very
hard. In such cases, navigation of UAV is
not possible.
InNDrone is a completely autonomous
drone which can navigate itself in an
InNDrone
indoor environment without using GPS.
To simplify our task by integrating all the sensor data and performing
work accordingly, we are using ROS (Robotic Operating System), since it
contains prebuilt packages which we can build upon to achieve the task.
Nucleus
~headed by Prodduturi Sankeerth Reddy.
Nucleus satellite program aims at making IIT Guwahati the first institute
from Northeast India to have a dedicated space program and to aid its
future space needs. This program is divided in specific phases namely
HABSAT & Lower Earth Orbit (LEO) Cubesat.
~headed by Bikram Baruti.
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Nucleus
Organizing Inter-IIT
C
atered towards advancing technology and human lives via innovation
and creativity, the Inter IIT Tech Meet is an annual tech competition
whose 9th edition was hosted by IIT Guwahati. The meet aims to share
knowledge and promote networking while bolstering innovative thinking
in the domain of real-life challenges through its competitive format.
“
Inter IIT Tech Meet has held a special
place in my heart and the opportunity
of being the Overall Coordinator of the
Meet, was thrilling. I highly value the
interactions, the enriching experience
of leadership, the ability to deal with
conflict, the learning of technical skills
and the exposure to new innovative
ideas, that organizing the Inter IIT Tech
Meet has provided me.
~Mohnish Kumar
Overall Coordinator
“
I remember the time when Inter IIT
Tech Meet was really hard to imagine
being conducted online during
pandemic without compromising the
vision of Tech Meet. I am thankful to
my team, without whom we would not
have made it this big. I hope our
technical board will always take the
lead to create the platforms to
enhance technology and innovation.
~Yogesh Yadav
Overall Coordinator
Pandemic, Paranoia & Possibilities
Technology, Vision & Hope
The Tech Meet works to collaborate with leading government-funded
agencies, multinational corporations and private companies to better
understand problems faced worldwide. It caters to the advancement of
science, technology and humanities.
Inter-IIT Tech Meet’21 Organizing Head Team
Technology
The
Leaderboard
IIT Kanpur
GC Winner
Total Score : 2407
IIT Guwahati had the honour of taking up the challenge of transforming a
conventionally offline conference into a completely virtual format while
preserving the competitiveness associated with an Inter IIT event. The
college's extremely accomplished organizing team worked extremely hard
leading to and during the entire event to pull off a one-of-its-kind
technological meet.
With the pandemic looming large over the heads of people all around the
country, the 9th Inter IIT Tech Meet was very fittingly focused in and
around building a self-reliant, progressive India as we bounce back on
our feet. In times of paranoia, the possibility of rejuvenating the spirits of
citizens and bringing about impactful changes was everything this year's
tech meet stood for.
The 9th Inter IIT Tech Meet serves to be a syndicate of the brightest
minds to create innovative solutions that encapsulate a progressive India.
It aims to build a self-reliant India by capitalizing on the country's
cultural and intellectual diversity.
Vision
IIT Bombay
GC Runner Up
Total Score : 2242
The meet hopes to encourage analytical thinking, lateral solution
building, strong communication, and a tolerance for diverse viewpoints.
It hopes to promote different perspectives, effective teamwork, and
empathetic and creative ideation.
Hope
IIT Kharagpur
GC Third Position
Total Score : 2158
Overall Coordinators Yogesh Yadav and Mohnish Kumar.
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Inter-IIT Contingent
Technical Board IIT Guwahati is all about the ideology that learning is a
continuous and never-ending process. A small dent in this process will
have a significant impact causing a domino effect.
After being hard hit by a pandemic, it was important for the clubs to
ensure proper learning would ensue so that the future batches would
not face any problems. Though participating in a massive competition
like the Inter IIT Tech Meet during these challenging times is difficult, all
the clubs did well to keep the culture going.
“
Participating in the Inter-IIT Tech Meet Each
myself, I always dreamt of leading the
IITG contingent someday. And when I
got the chance, it was an
overwhelming journey, filled with
sleepless nights, never-ending meeting
calls and euphoria of finishing overall
4th. Kudos to all the participants and
club members whose combined efforts
made this feat possible!
~Lavish Gulati
IIT Guwahati Contingent Leader
“
and every club has been part of
this Inter IIT Tech Meet in one or
another way, & the Technical Board
has been back on full throttle ever
since. This year’s Tech Meet was a
fun-filled fantastic journey for each
participant who worked in teams and
made sure to give it their best shot. I
hope the upcoming batches keep on
learning and performing even better to
create innovative solutions that
positively impact society.
~Sri Harsha Vadathya
IIT Guwahati Contingent Manager
Bagging Fourth Place
IITG's contingents for this year's Inter IIT Tech Meet braved through one
of the toughest meets in recent years and came out with their heads held
high, doing the entire college proud. With three golds and three silvers,
IIT Guwahati stands 4th overall in the 9th Inter IIT Tech Meet.
Inter-IIT Tech Meet’21 IIT Guwahati Contingent Team
9.0 Inter-IIT
IIT Guwahati
GC Fourth Position
3 Golds & 3 Silvers
Total Score : 1952
The participants did well to work hard day and night to pull through and
do well in this year's competition. The 4th-year participants were
incredibly fantastic and spent their guiding and working on projects
despite the meet happening in their last two months on campus.
Medals Secured
Bridgei2i's Automatic Headline &
Sentiment Generator
High Prep Module
400/400
RuTAG's Agrobot Design Innovation
Challenge
Mid Prep Module
250/250
Saptang Labs's Network Security
Hackathon
Low Prep Module
150/150
BOSCH's Traffic Sign Recognition
Problem
High Prep Module
328/400
DRDO's Vision Based Obstacle
Avoidance Drone
Mid Prep Module
222/250
ISRO's Web Based Visualization
Tool for Astrosat Observations
Hackathon
Mid Prep Module
191/250
Past
Achievements
8.0 Inter-IIT 2019
GC Fourth Position
3 Golds & 4 Silvers
Organized by
IIT Roorkee
7.0 Inter-IIT 2018
GC Fifth Position
1 Gold & 3 Bronze
Organized by
IIT Bombay
Left to Rigt. Contingent Manager & Contingent Leader.
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Kriti
UDGAM
D
renched in age-old rivalry, fierce competitiveness, & blazing passion,
Kriti is one of the calendar year's most enthralling events. Kriti has been
massively successful in bringing the unexposed into tech and has served
as a great launching pad for brewing innovation among the IITG
fraternity's newest members- the freshers. Over a month, Kriti puts
hostellers through a conflux of challenging competitions ranging from
gaming to marketing strategy, and it's hard to find an event more
successful in uniting people.
T
he Annual Entrepreneurship Summit of IIT Guwahati, which is held to
bring together the academic community, new-age entrepreneurs,
industry leaders, and investors on a common platform. This flagship
event of E-Cell, IIT Guwahati was conceptualised to develop and spread
the spirit of entrepreneurship among the youth of the North-East, and
India in general thus earning itself the reputation of being the largest
E-Summit in the north-east. To foster an environment that is conducive
to entrepreneurship, we at Udgam organize lectures, events and
workshops to create a platform for young minds to realize their potential
and showcase their bright ideas in front of the public and industry.
Kapili bagged the first
position while securing
the Visionary cup and
Business cup.
Barak stands second.
Manas got the third
position.
Kapili Hostel Wins Kriti’19
Brainiac Cup
2019 Winner - Barak Hostel
Clubs that
contribute
With events ranging from quizzing to hackathons, the Brainiac cup has
always required that extra little something from its participants.
Business Cup
2019 Winner - Kapili Hostel
Money matters and the people who manage money are MVPs. This cup
is focussed around the cutthroat and competitive world of business.
Da Vinci Cup
2019 Winner - Manas Hostel
The endless world of automation opens up a world of exciting
possibilities, and that's precisely what the Da Vinci cup is all about.
Visionary Cup
2019 Winner - Kapili Hostel
With an eye on sustainable development, the Visionary cup promotes
thinking in an environmentally responsible manner.
Coding Club
Consulting & Analytics
IITG.ai
Quiz Club
Consulting & Analytics
Finance & Economics
E-Cell
Aeromodelling Club
Automobile Club
Electronics Club
Robotics Club
Astronomy Club
Coding Club
Technical Board
ALL
VIRTUAL
15-24
JAN
Going Virtual
Owing to the current scenario of the global pandemic of Covid-19, for
the very first time, the thirteenth edition of UDGAM was organised
completely virtually. All the organising team meetings were held online,
and the event was planned virtually. The keynote lectures, panel
discussions, competitions and live events took place virtually on an
online platform. Regardless, it turned out to be the most successful
edition so far because of the organising team’s dedicated work, planning
and the audience’s enthusiasm.
The Team.
Jimmy Wales
Founder, Wikipedia.
“Simply having rules
does not change the
things that people
want to do. You have
to change incentives.”
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InternFair
It is the biggest Internfair of North-East India. On one hand it provides
an amazing platform for startups to find interns and on the other, it gives
an opportunity for the first and second year students of IIT Guwahati to
get a chance to intern at a startup and explore more of startup culture.
42+ startups registered to hire interns. The event saw 800+ CV
applications, and 200+ successful interviews were conducted.
“
Udgam 2021 was completely different from the previous
editions and posed several challenges. Events had to be
restructured, the entire team working from home. We
saw this as an opportunity and made the best out of it,
used collaborative tools, leveraged virtual to become
global. The best thing about Udgam is, everyone’s ideas
are valued and get implemented. Udgam 2021 in one
line for me “Overcoming challenges with innovation
while having fun”.
~Anish Gupta, Convener, UDGAM’21
PMx
Disrupt
Workshops
PMx
Fun Events
Lecture
Series
Dframe
Intern Fair
UDGAM
Statistics
4 Lakh+ Prize Pool.
6500+ LinkedIn page
followers.
2000+ Contenders for
the finals.
600+ Live audience
attended.
280+ Startups
Supported.
100+ Workshop
Participants.
40+ Sponsors.
15+ Speakers.
9 Events.
9 Days.
Shashank
Randev
Founder VC at 100X.VC
Angel Investor &
Advisor with a keen
interest in B2B
emerging technology
startups.
Product Management Expedition, a management competition, is aimed
at giving aspiring product managers and tech-enthusiasts a platform to
innovate and work on a real industry problem.
1180+ registrations
Slack Community of 450+ members.
Disrupt
The classic pitching battle saw a stark increase in the number of startups
participating with 240+ startup applications in UDGAM’21. Alongside
prizes worth 1.5 lakhs and investment opportunities to winners, top
finalists were also provided with mentorship, incubation, and business
tools.
DFrame
LS and workshops
Aims to bring professionals and entrepreneurs from the top of the
boardroom ladder to share their entrepreneurial insights and
experiences with the attendees equally enthusiastic about making a
mark.
A UI/UX Challenge blending creativity and business relevance. It’s aim is
to develop the designer's innovative quotient by flexing their design
muscle to find technical solutions. In collaboration with White Space,
DFrame was a huge success with a total of 160+ design enthusiasts
participating in this event.
The speakers line up included Sandeep Jain (founder at GeeksForGeeks),
Sarbvir Singh (CEO at PolicyBazaar), Bindeshwar Pathak (founder at
Sulabh International), Sairee Chahal (founder & CEO at Sheroes) and
many such experienced speakers.
The highlight was Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, engaging the
attendees and taking us all through his life journey. We also had the
Original Shark of SharkTank, Kevin Harrington onboard!
Hari T.N
Head HR, Big Basket.
“Life is an open book
exam, and we cannot
apply the close book
principle in it.”
Live Events
Business Quiz, Virtual
Stock Market, Tweet
Contest, and many
more fun games on our
social media handles.
Kevin Harrington
Original Shark,
SharkTank
Bindeshwar Pathak
Founder, Sulabh
International
Rohit Kapoor
CEO , OYO (India &
SouthEast Asia)
Sarbvir Singh
CEO,
PolicyBazaar.com
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Techevince
Techniche
W
hat better way for a technical institute to show off its achievements
than an entire exhibition? Techevince puts all of IITG's technological
passion, innovation, and creativity under the limelight and gives a stage
to the college's tech rockstars to perform on. Techevince is a
culmination of some of the entire academic year's best technological
projects and the brilliant minds behind them.
T
he Annual Techno-Management festival of IIT Guwahati is an emotion
in itself, made of sleepless nights and unforgettable memories. A forum
where learning meets fun, Techniche provides the perfect environment
to nurture inquisitiveness within the youth. Packed with numerous
events, competitions, workshops, and initiatives, we boast of having
something to pique everyone's interest. Techniche 2020 was no
exception, wherein we built India's first virtual Techno- Management fest
from the ground up, faced with the unforeseen situation of the
pandemic, courtesy of the relentless efforts of the team.
BiPed
Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where an organism moves
by means of its two rear limbs or legs. A machine that usually moves in
a bipedal manner is known as a biped, meaning "two feet". Our project
BIPED has 10 degrees of freedom is a bot designed to walk on flat
surfaces. Theoretically, biped refers to walking, running &
hopping. However due the complexity, we limited ourselves to
walking. We are a team of 13 members and we divided the tasks into
four phases.
~Project by Robotics Club
BIPED Model.
Student Grade Prediction
When students step into college, they experience a completely new
arena of opportunities and experiences, from the disciplined
environment of school and coaching institutes, thisnew home tries to
bring a holistic development in them , but in the process do they
loosen up their studies?
Student Grade Prediction aims to predict and analyse the grades of
students against multiple features of interest , both comprising of their
past life and the one they are presently a part of. It helps to get a
better idea as to what are the major reasons for the varied distribution
of grades among students and also reveals trends which otherwise are
hidden.
~Project by Consulting & Analytics Club
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Lecture Series, Pronites & Nexus
The legacy of keynotes and impeccable performances by maestros of
diverse fields, LS and Pronites is an escape to elevate oneself with a
plethora of knowledge while being immersed in the depths of creativity,
rhythm, and a drive to let loose.
Nexus is a management conference under Techniche. It aims to provide
holistic insight into the corporate world by organizing various events
such as keynote speeches, hackathons, workshops, exhibitions, and
panel discussions.
Michael
Slovis
Virtual Campus!
Lecture Series
Speaker
Director &
Cinematographer for
Game of Thrones &
Breaking Bad
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Competitions
ROBOTICS is the largest robotics competition organization team in
North-Eastern India, with participation from more than 100 different
institutes and organizations pan India, we aim to inculcate a tradition of
collective learning.
TechExpo is well known for exploring young innovative minds and
inspire students across the nation. We present some of the most
exemplary projects which benefit everyone.
Conducting various competitions with technical, management, and
fun-social regimes to challenge the participants' minds, TechOlympics
aspires to provide a perfect platform to inculcate a culture of
out-of-the-box thinking, problem-solving, and teamwork amongst the
participants.
“
Techniche has always been a significant part of my
college life. Being the Convener was a lot of fun and
quite unexpected. Even though we faced the pandemic,
our team of 250 members worked tirelessly with utmost
dedication and enthusiasm to make the impossible
possible. Conducting Techniche online was filled with
many unforeseen and new challenging problems, but we
always had the support of each of our team members to
overcome everything. It was a great learning experience,
and everything that I got from college, great friends,
personality, I owe it to Techniche.
~Raghav Aggarwal
Convener, Techniche ’20
Techolympics Robotics Lecture Series Workshops
Organizing Techniche
Techexpo Funniche After The
Sunset
Technothlon
Technothlon
Corporate
Modules
Exhibitions
Nexus
Guwahati Half
Marathon
'Technothlon: the ultimate test of logic' is an international school
championship conducted for the students of class 9th to 12th to 'inspire
young minds.'
Technothlon questions are innovative, challenging, and connected
through a grand theme. This year, the HAUTS category's questions had a
Lion King theme, while the Junior category's questions were themed
around Toy Story.
Workshops
Case interviews, Data
Analytics, Applied
Investing, and DS &
Algorithms workshops
conducted by the
Workshops Team.
Enter
Visit us at
techniche.org
Initiatives
Register
Techniche Initiatives
are run year-round to
create a positive
impact and help
Techniche do its part
for society.
“Not an error.”
Techniche celebrates
Pride Month.
A massive all India event like Techniche needs lots and lots of high
functioning teams behind the scenes to succeed. While Techniche's
individual modules have their own teams, some teams are required to
bring it all together.
The PR & Branding and Marketing teams make sure that Techniche is
known to the outside world and funded through sponsorships,
respectively. Team Web-Ops takes care of web-related operations, and
their role was accordingly critical this year with the event being online.
Team Media acts as the face of Techniche, puppeteering what the event
looks like to the outside world, and finally, team Creatives use their
creative thinking to wrap it all up and develop designs for the fest.
The 2019 Techniche Team.
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Team UDGAM
Team Techniche
Anish
Gupta
Aditya
Chauhan
Aniket
Vinchurkar
Raghav
Agarwal
Himakar
Sreerangam
Omkar
Joshi
Convener
Disrupt
Head
Overall
Coordinator
Convener
Finance
Head
Media
Head
Bhabani
Shankar
Smita
Saxena
Itti
Joseph
Lipika
Gupta
Siddhant
Sinha
Design
Head
Intern Fair
Head
Design
Head
Design
Head
WebOps
Head
Akshat
Gupta
Amulya
Dubey
Reet
Akshat
Saish
Shrivastav
Chinmay
Garud
Corporate
Relations Head
PR & Branding
Relations Head
Events
Head
PR & Branding
Relations Head
International
Events Head
Priyanshu
Gupta
Pulkit
Changoiwala
Naman
Agarwal
Ashish
Sonavne
Marketing
Head
PMx
Head
Corporate
Relations Head
Marketing
Head
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Meet the Technical Board
Dr. Chivukula
V. Sastri
Shridam
Mahajan
Vedant
Khadse
Secretary
Aeromodelling
Club
Mayank
Sharma
Secretary
Astronomy Club,
Equinox
Durgansh
Mishra
Secretary
Automobile Club
IITG Racing
Associate Professor
Chairman
Techincal Board
General Secretary
Technical Board
Swapnil
Srivastava
Secretary
Coding
Club
Daksh
Jain
Secretary
Consulting &
Analytics Club
Liza
Anshul
Secretary
Finance &
Economics Club
Prakhar
Rajpali
Overall
Coordinator
Devesh
Gupta
Events
Manager
Sudipto
Ghosh
Project
Engineer
Emily
Huiling
Joint Secretary
Design Club,
White Space
Hardika
Chaudhari
Joint Secretary
Design Club,
White Space
Mansi
Bhardwaj
Secretary
Electronics
Club
Harry
Patel
Content
Head
Aryan
Rathod
Design
Head
Janhavi
Lande
External Relations
& Outreach Head
Sai Sreyas
Ray
Secretary
E-Cell
Ankit
Saraf
Convener
Udgam
E-Cell
Ayush
Aggarwal
Overall
Coordinator
E-Cell
Loknath
Kumar
WebOps
Head
Gitanjit
Medhi
WebOps
Core Team
Himanshu
Singh
Overall Coordinator
4i Lab
Varun
Yerram
Secretary
IITG.ai
Aryan
Verma
Secretary
Quiz Club,
Acumen
Ritik
Singh
Secretary
Robotics
Club
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The Editorial Team
Harry
Patel
Aryan
Rathod
Hardika
Chaudhari
Kartik
Rao
Rhea
Gupta
Special Thanks to
Manav Yadav
Meghana Manivannan
Janvi Kale
Aditya Joshi
Durgansh Mishra
Digisha Verma
Shambhawi Bhure
Niharika
Saumya Goyal
Akshat Sinha
Shreya Singh
Swapnil Srivastava
Utkarsh Chaturvedi
Tanmay Joshi
Yash Joshi
Gangadhar
45 | Teams
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