Kurukshetra (college festival)

Kurukshetra is an international techno-management fest conducted annually by the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a four-day event organized by the college's technical body, the CEG Tech Forum (CTF). The name of the fest derives from the location of the apocalyptic battle between the Kauravas and the Pandavas in the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata. The tag-line of the fest, "The Battle of Brains", refers to the battle. The fest was first held in 2007[1] and was the first techno-management festival in India to be awarded UNESCO patronage.[2] Its logo, the Cyclotron, symbolize the celebration of the indomitable spirit of engineering and innovation.

Kurukshetra
Genretechno-management fest
Location(s)Chennai, India
Founded2007
Major eventsK!Box, Xceed, Robowars, Godspeed, on-site and online programming contests, initiatives
Filing statusStudent-run, non-profit
SponsorCollege of Engineering, Guindy
Prize money1 million INR

Working committee

The festival is organized by the CEG Tech Forum.[3] Founded in 2006, the Forum is a student-run organisation consisting of 17 teams: Guest Lectures & Brand Relations, Industrial Relations, Creativity- Content and Design, Events,Workshop, XCEED and Karnival, Finance, Hospitality, Human Resource, Logistics, Marketing, Media, Projects, Quality Assurance and Control,Initiatives and Tech -Web & Apps.

History

Hosted for the first time in January 2007, the fest included workshops entitled "Autonomous Robotics", "Ethical Hacking" and "Need for Speed" as part of the event.[4] The project exhibition event received an overwhelming response with more than 250 entries and 25 teams short-listed for the final display.

Kurukshetra was the first student-organised tech fest in India to receive UNESCO patronage, in 2011.[5] Kurukshetra was also titled Green Fest by the UN Conference for Sustainable Development in the previous edition in 2012.[6] The student-managed committee is certified to the ISO 9001:2015 quality standard.[7]

Karnival

Karnival is an event that presents displays on science, technology, arts, history and culture. Some of the past exhibits are a magic show and 3D-floor painting held in 2014,[8] an Arjun tank demonstration and laser tag game in 2015,[8] and caricature workshop, photography workshop, Rubik’s cube workshop and virtual reality exhibition in 2016.[9][10]

Guest lectures
Year Guest lecturers
2016[11][10][12][13]
  • Angelo Vermeulen, crew commander of a MARS simulation program funded by NASA
  • Arjun Shetty, COO & co-founder of BankBazaar
  • Chiragh Dewan and Himanshu Vaishnav, founders of Airocorp
  • Dr. Seshagiri Rao, Associate Director at the Indian Space Research Organisation
  • Girish Mathrubootham, CEO of Freshdesk
  • Hemanth Kumar Guruswamy, CEO of Airtel Broadband
  • Masha Nazeem, scientist and inventor
2015[14]
2014[15]
2013[16]

Workshops

The workshops range all over the radar of technology from aero-modelling, and robotics to motorcycles.[17] Some of the notable workshops[18] in previous editions are:

General Wildlife Photography, Air Crash Investigation

Audio Engineering, 3D printing, Journalism,

Digital freeze, K!rack it, Film Direction.

Engineering Dynamic Design, Ethical Hacking, Rocketry, Energy Scavenging, Green Computing, HTML5, Know Your Grid

NoSQL, Printed Electronics, Rammed Earth Construction, Nuclear Power Generation, Sustainability Solutions, Wearable Electronics, IBM's Security Intelligence with Penetration testing, Reverse Engineering, Biomimicry.

IBM's Block Chain, Deep Learning, Samsung S-Pay,Software Defined Radio & 5G, Dam Designing, ArduinoSAT, Electro-Hydraulics Panel Designing, Chennai Undergrounnd Metro ventilation.

Robotics Mobile Robotics, SCARA (Selective Compliance Assembly Robot Arm) Echo - Speech Control Robot, Autonomous Mobile Plotter Robot, Face gesture controlled robot, Bluetooth controlled bots, Brainwave-controlled Robots, Eye-controlled robots, Underwater Robotics.
Management That's how you talk, Personal Branding & Networking, Spirit of Entrepreneurship, Venture Capitalism, Growth Hacking
School Krithi, a workshop that spots the finest aspirants of innovation at the school level
BioTech Drug Designing
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References
  1. Malarvizhi, J. (2007-01-05). "A racy start to `Kurukshetra 07'". The Hindu.
  2. "Kurukshetra 2016: Battle of the brains" – via www.thehindu.com.
  3. Venugopal, Vasudha (4 July 2016). "A forum for all your counselling queries". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
  4. "A racy start to 'Kurukshetra 07'". The Hindu. Retrieved 2016-12-05.
  5. "Kurukshetra 2016: Battle of the brains". 14 February 2016 – via www.thehindu.com.
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  8. Sowjanya (2015). "K! - The Inside Story - K!arnival Team". The Guindy Times. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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  17. Venugopal, Vasudha (5 February 2012). "Catalysts for the flight of imagination". The Hinu. Retrieved 26 January 2017.
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