Yogesh Kanik|| Candidate for General Secretary Technology || 2019–2020
Proposal 1
I propose to organize Kshitij Expo in Kshitij 2020.
Objective:
To increase and promote the various projects undertaken by students throughout the nation, I propose to organize an event under Kshitij for the benefit of students, focusing on RS/Phd.
Benefits:
● The event will promote and encourage research-oriented students throughout our campus as well as the nation.
● The event will increase the visibility and reach of the fest and also help our
institute to improve relations between participating institutes.
● It will also provide a platform for students by promoting their project
through online publicity.
● Ph.D./RS students from our institute will get a first-hand experience of the
technical innovation made by other students across our nation through the
expo.
Structure:
A new event Kshitij Expo will be organized during Kshitij where participants will submit their projects in the fields of Robotics, IoT, Machine Learning, Artificial
Intelligence, etc. The submission will include a working video of the model and abstract which will be sent to a professor of IIT Kharagpur working in that
particular field. The submissions will be judged on various parameters and these parameters will have particular weight in the final result.
The top 2 submissions in each field will be called to display their project during Kshitij in an exhibition. The selected projects will be uploaded on the webpage of Kshitij and will be open for sponsorship and mentorship from companies and alumni working in the same field. The projects will also be publicized through the facebook page of Kshitij. The teams invited to showcase their project will be given travel fares, accommodation and food. Maximum 2 people from one team will be provided with free facilities. The teams attending the expo will be again judged by a panel of judges including professors and representatives of the company sponsoring the event. From the teams attending the expo, top 3 teams will be selected and given cash prize as follows-
1. First Prize- Rs. 10,000
2. Second Prize- Rs. 7,500
3. Third Prize- Rs. 5,000
Judging Criterion-
1. Originality(Weightage-20%)
2. Innovation(Weightage-30%)
3. Feasibility(Weightage-15%)
4. Utility(Weightage-35%)
Timeline-
1. The release of posters for the event and start of online registration(Tentative Deadline: 15th September/Last week of September)
2. Last Date of accepting registrations(Tentative Deadline: 20th October/Last
week of October)
3. Email to be sent to the registered teams giving a layout of
submissions(Tentative Deadline: 31st October)
4. Accepting submissions from Registered teams(Tentative Deadline: 20th
November)
5. Giving the submissions to professors and compiling the evaluation(Tentative Deadline: 15th December)
6. Sending invitations to teams qualifying first round(Tentative Deadline: 25th December)
Budget-
1. Travel fares for the teams qualifying first round: (700x2x2x6x2) Rs.33,600(Tentative)
2. Prize money for the winning teams: Rs. 22,500 (Tentative)
Total Budget: Rs. 56,100/-
Groundwork:
The last edition of Kshitij witnessed exhibitions from all across the globe. This
year I have talked to various companies and startups who were interested in
corporate partership for such events.
Also, some of the Campus Representative of the various institute have shown
interest in such an event to showcase various research and project undertaken by their respective institutes.
Since the event is new we have to make sure that the students are informed well regarding the event and opportunities they are getting to ensure maximum participation from the student community, this can be done through mailing and online publicity.
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Proposal 2:
I propose to boost the coding culture among the IIT Kharagpur student
community by introducing a Hackathon Event as an Open IIT Event.
Objective:
To make the Open IIT Tournament innovative and relevant, I propose to provide a boost to the coding culture in Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur by including a Hackathon event in the Open IIT Tournament in which we will try to solve the problems related to the IIT Kharagpur Community.
Structure:
● A google form will be released among the IIT Kharagpur community for the
problems faced by them in the Campus which will be formulated as Problem
Statement.
● Tentative date of the event will be the 2nd weekend of October.
● It will be a 48 Hours non-stop event.
● The event would be conducted on platforms like HackerRank or
HackerEarth.
● This event will be organized on the closed event format where only invited
teams would be able to compete.
● 2 Teams from each hall would participate.
● Maximum of 4 members are allowed in each team.
● The winner will be decided by the Judging criteria which will be decided by
the Judges who will be Professors of IIT Kharagpur
Disclaimer: In case we don’t get any feasible feedback from the IIT Kharagpur
Community, we will contact various companies or startups who are facing
real-time problems, the solution of which will be beneficial for the companies.
Groundwork:
● Some examples of General problems faced by the campus community are
Room Booking Portal, Book Sharing Portal, Portal to easily buy and sell
used Products etc.
● Various alumni have shown interest during the Alumni Trip in an event like
this. Apart from this we also have telephonic confirmation from various
companies who will be ready to provide problem statement. Few companies
which will be interested to associate with IIT Kharagpur for this event are:
Hero Electronix
Cars24.com
Variantaz
InfraTab
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Proposal 3:
I propose to publish a technical newsletter every semester.
Objective:
In an institute like ours where technical developments occur ever so frequently, the majority of students find themselves to be oblivious to most of these developments that just might be pertaining to their areas of interest. To fix this issue is the primary objective of my proposal.
Structure:
The e-newsletter will be released once at the end of every semester.
The e-newsletter will be released through the Facebook page of Technology
Students Gymkhana and will be circulated through ERP mail and official emails of students.
The newsletter will tentatively consist of six pages:
1. The first page of the newsletter will be dedicated to what our beloved alumni have to say about the present trends and developments in technology and their invaluable contribution to the same.
2. The second page will provide in detail standings and updates about the
technology events held in that particular semester ( open IIT and ad design
event of technology general championship in the autumn semester and the
other technology general championship events in the spring semester).
3. Providing students with just the results of various technology events, won’t
suffice the purpose of this newsletter. Hence, in the next couple of pages, we
will include interviews and overviews of the work done by the winning
teams (of technology events like open soft, product design, case study,
chemquest, data analytics and hardware modelling) to provide readers with
greater insight into how the winning team went about solving the problems
that they had to face.
4. We will place a few interesting articles on recent technological trends and
developments that most students would find to be useful.
5. The last page will be dedicated to what students and professors in our
campus are up to, their recent breakthroughs in research, achievements, and
honours etc.
6. We will also throw in some facts pertaining to the trending technological
advancements throughout the world in the form of fact boxes, etc throughout
the newsletter.
Groundwork :
We will appoint a team for content writing and design at the beginning of the
session which will be handling the job of finding content for and designing the newsletter. The team will be selected on the basis of an assignment followed by a personal interview. The assignment shall be selected randomly from a large roster which will comprise of various topics. The personal interviews will be conducted by a panel consisting of both the General Secretary Technology, former Secretary Literary Cup. The team selected shall comprise only of second year UG students.
The General Secretaries of Technology, Technology Students Gymkhana will be overviewing the content and design team’s job.
Disclaimer: The format and content of all the Proposals are given by the candidates only. No editing has been done by Awaaz.
