TECHNOFANIA, an Inter-Departmental Technical Symposium conducted every year by the Open Source Open Community of the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. It includes technical and non-technical events, which were conducted virtually on April 24th– 25th 2021, by the members of OSOC of batch 2023. The events were as follows –
- Agamya
- Greedy queen
- Get the output
- Anybody can art
- Word traps
- Decrypt
- Bizoku
- Treasure hunt
- CSS Battle
AGAMYA
“AGAMYA”, the flagship event of Technofania, is conducted every year. This time there was a slight change; instead of a hardware hackathon, OSOC conducted Software Hackathon.
It started with the online submission of abstracts on the Technofania website from different teams, and 1st review round was on April 18th, 2021. Kartik Gupta, Ravina Verma, and Shivam Tiwari from batch 2021 were the judges for the first review round.
Out of seven teams, four teams were selected for the final review round of Agamya.
DAY 0
Day 0 several technical and non-technical events were organized, including Anybody Can Art, Word Traps, Greedy Queen, CSS Battle, Decrypt, Get the Output, and Bizoku.
- Word Traps, a game application developed by Shanoor Ahmed, a member of OSOC of batch 2023, was very much appreciated by the participants.
The winners were – Nitesh Agrahari, Khushboo Khanchandani, Sachin Lalwani. Kshitiz Arora of batch 2020 sponsored this event.
- An online submission event, ANYBODY CAN ART, was held in which participants showcased their creativity in various domains of art (like story writing, painting, poetry). Students posted their creations on the Facebook page of OSOC. The winners were Simran Garg, Anshu Mala Lakra, Amitabha Roy, Nitesh Agrahari and this event was sponsored by Palash Maran of batch 2017, and Ankita Gupta of batch 2020.
Bhumika Khakha and Shivangi Gupta of batch 2023 organized the event.
- The next event was Greedy queen. It is a platform developed by the OSOC members. The winners were – Sachin Lalwani, Ankit Singh, Jayshree Choudhary. Prajjwal Gupta of batch 2020 sponsored the event.
Mahima Pawar and Kunal Kumawat of batch 2023 organized the event.
- After Greedy queen, our next event CSS battle, which was held to test students’ web development skills. Participants were given some sample images, and they had to replicate the image using HTML, CSS.
The winners were Jasbir Shikhawat, Manish Kumar Pandey, Nikita Das & Saurabh Anand. Aditya Kumar of batch 2020 sponsored the event.
Manish Nangliya and Shanoor Ahmed of batch 2023 organized the event.
- Different coding events were also there to test the students’ technical and developing skills. For the event Decrypt, the winners were – Shashank Shekhar Pandey, Manish Kumar Pandey, Hrishikant Mehta. Khushali Porwal of batch 2019 sponsored the event.
In Get the Output, the winners were – Saurabh Anand, Dimple Gyanani, Jasbir Shikhawat. Rajesh Sethi of batch 2016 sponsored the event.
Shivam Singh and Mahima Pawar of batch 2023 organized these coding events.
- Bizoku is a platform developed by OSOC. The participants found it very interesting while playing Bizoku. The winners were Jasbir Shikhawat, Sagar Gupta, Hrishikant Mehta, and the event was sponsored by Shubham Sharma of batch 2019.
Shivam Singh and Kunal Kumawat of batch 2023 organized the event.
DAY 1
Day 1 started with a fun event, TREASURE HUNT, which was a team event. Students got a chance to interact among themselves while playing. Everyone participated enthusiastically and enjoyed it very much. The winners were Manish Kumar Pandey, Ruchi Panse, Jayshree Choudhary, and Surendra Lodhi of batch 2020 sponsored this event.
Shivangi Gupta and Prashansa Geete organized this event along with other members of OSOC.
In the evening, we began with the encouraging words of our staff advisor, Dr. (Mrs.) B. Janet Ma’am encouraged everyone and gave us great insights for projects and Open Source contribution to society.
In the final round of Agamya, We invited the alumni of OSOC, Mr. Rajesh Sethi, a Software Engineer at Walmart Labs, and Mr. Palash Maran, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, as our judges.
There were four finalist teams, and they presented their projects respectively, which everyone appreciated. Feedback and further insights were given to each team for their project by judges and faculty. The winners of Agamya were :
- Team Drifters (Jasbir Shikhawat, Harsh Rai, Amandeep Yadav, Shashank Shekhar Pandey)
- Team Pentagon (Paras Tiwari, Ankit Singh, Simran Garg, Yasser Osman Khan, Saurabh Anand)
Shiv Kumar and Ram Dayal Vaishnav of batch 2014 sponsored this event.
Payal Soni and Prashansa Geete of batch 2023 organized the event.
OSOC conducted a talk session with alumni to guide the juniors and share their knowledge. They shared their industrial working experience and also advised us about internships and placements.
Although Technofania was conducted virtually this year, the enthusiasm of students and their participation made it very successful . At last, all the winners of different events were announced. Students were given prizes and certificates to encourage them.
Overall, it ended successfully with happy faces.
Some of the feedback from participants :
“It pushed us to do productive and learn new things for Agamya and other events which we would have never spared the time for otherwise.”
-Saurabh Anand (batch 2023)
“All the events were good and helped us improve specific fields, whether technical or non-technical. We learn how to work in a team.”
-Pooja Yadav (batch 2023)
“It is a combination of technical and non-technical…in technical we check our knowledge and try to implement it, and in non-technical it’s about fun and creativity.”
-Neetu Pandit (batch 2023)
“First of all, it was full of fun and entertaining games. I haven’t got bored in any of them. Secondly, the events covered all the domains from solving puzzles, finding clues, showing your artistic skills as well as technical skills.”
-Neeraj Upadhyay (batch 2023)
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