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The festival boasts of being the biggest of its kind in the north eastern part of the country and attracts participants and spectators from all parts of India. Techniche’ 07 will be the ninth edition and will be held from 7th-9th September’ 2007 and has grown multifold over the years.
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[edit] Events
The festival hosts a collage of events ranging from hi-tech robotics, simulation events, paper presentations, quizzes by professionals, online events, to management events like designing B-Plans and Virtual Stock Market. Robotics by far is the most interesting and popular module- ranging from manual robotics to autonomous robotics controlled fully inbuilt pre-programmed chips. PC Gaming competitions is another popular part of Techniche.A school olympiad named Technothlon is also conducted during this festival. Online events like Ikaaru , Arbit and break the Code has been added in the 9th edition.
[edit] Lectures and Workshops
Apart from competitions, lectures and workshops are also held which have been taken by eminent personalities like Dr. R Chidambaram, Prof. Yashpal, Prof. R.A. Mashelkar and Prof. C.N.R. Rao. Workshops have been held in Space applications, Solar- Botics, Bioinformatics apart from many more. Exhibitions are set up to display the latest cutting edge technology to the masses. CSIR, DRDO, ISRO, DSIR, NHPC and NESAC have helped showcase their research.
[edit] Media
Techniche is well covered by Media in print and online. In 2006 EFY publications and Times of India were the media partners. EFY publications will once again will be the print media partners for Techniche 2007.
[edit] Press Release, Techniche'07
IIT Guwahati presents Techniche 2007 - September 7-9. IIT Guwahati is proud to announce the grand opening of its 9th edition of the annual techno-management festival Techniche.
Inaugurating on the 7th of September, Techniche 2007 is a three day celebration of innovation. Over the years, Techniche has grown in stature and has progressed to become one of the biggest festivals of its kind in India. It encompasses competitive events, lectures, workshops and exhibitions, which attracts a diverse participation, thus offering students a platform to interact not only with the student community of IIT Guwahati, but also some of the brightest young minds of the country, at school and at college level.
Techniche 2007 is poised to have a massive impact, with over 2000 teams registered for various events and an expected participation of 5,000 students over the Techniche weekend itself. Apart from this 6000 participants across the world have successfully participated in the online events which started a week before Techniche. The event Robotics alone has a participation of more than 500 teams.
MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
The major attractions of Techniche 2007 are expected to be as follows:
1. Inauguration by Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Minister, Health & Family Welfare, Guwahati Development, Information Technology and Science & Technology. Government of Assam. 2. Laser Show on September 8 night. 3. Kiran Bedi (first woman IPS officer) is the Guest Speaker on the Inaugural day, i.e. September 7.
4. Robotics
1. Manual robots, playing Pac Man on ground. 2. Semi autonomous, Robots playing Tennis. 3. Autonomous, The Ghost of Chernobyl man-like behaving machines. 4. Underwater, a good working prototype of a submarine. The robot has to move in all the 3 dimensions under water.
5. Glider making - Designing prototypes of glider. 6. Launch of IIT Guwahati Campus Radio during the inauguration ceremony of Techniche. 7. Virtual Stock market - virtual Share Bazaar for business minds. 8. Technothlon - A series of quizzes, lectures, exhibitions and workshops for school students. 10. A general quiz to be hosted by the Quizmaster Mr. Gautam Bose.
1. Virtual Stock Market : 8th September 2. Laser show : 8th September 3. Fire cracker show: 9th September 4. Search Strings (the quiz contest) : Quiz master: Mr. Gautam Bose, CEO, Greycells
1. Kiran Bedi (first woman IPS officer) is the Guest Speaker on the Inaugural day, i.e. September 7. 2. Mr. Sandesh Tiwari, R&D Centre, GOOGLE , Bangalore. lecture on "MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets" 3. Dr. RK Jha (Project Director, Navi Mumbai SEZ)(Brain behind the 50 flyovers of Mumbai.) 4. Dr. Raghuram Krishnapuram (IBM research labs, Gurgaon, India) 5. Workshop by Mr. Vipin Sharma, APPIN India Limited, New Delhi.
1. QUAD-CORE technology by INTEL 2. Wireless networking by D-Link
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
This competition has been the most popular event of Techniche for years. It has various events related to Robotics. Ghosts of Chernobyl is the manual robotics event with the maximum participation and excitement in the air. With innovative ideas and designs, this time we have broughtan interesting problem for students to design robots which can play PACMAN ,a very common computer game which every kid play in his ROBOTICS
The Ghost of Chernobyl The manual robotics event is an event for the students who like to start off on their exciting journey of robotics. They have to design a robot which can play the PACMAN(a common computer game) on ground. It is also the recipient of the maximum competition levels, from school and college students thronging the arena and spectators trying their best to get a glimpse of the supernatural competition levels.
Aqua Hustle The underwater robotics contest is for those who always loved the deep waters and wish to run a robot inside water - a good working prototype of a submarine! The robot is to do all the 3 dimensional movement under water, which makes it all the more interesting, fun and practical.
The semi-autonomous robotics, Technotennis and, Fully autonomous robotics contest, The Houdini Act are for those who have the mettle to prove themselves to be a cut above the rest and challenge their intellect to design and make robots which are not manually controlled but computer program controlled. Thus, once the robot enters the arena, it's all dependent on what the program does. They may be harder to build but they also provide unparallel satisfaction to the participants of having built a robot which requires you to do nothing but to turn it on!
Robotics at Techniche has been a massive crowd puller for years, and this year is looking no different. With 500+ teams and over 2000 participants, robotics looks like a huge success already. (Please visit Techniche'07 website for details)
GLIDER - Silent Wings This is new event introduced for the very first time in Techniche. Its all about designing prototypes of glider using basics of science. This first step can be a huge leap for the future rocket scientists and astrophysicists of the country.
TECHNOTHLON is a one of its kind event which is the institute's noble endeavor to encourage and identify the most creative and gifted young minds from across the nation. Participants are tested in fields as diverse as robotics, quizzing and public speaking. Besides the numerous fun activities, the 3 day event of Techniche features educational workshops by eminent professors and scientists. It also gives the participants a glimpse of the labs and the working of IIT. The brainstorming challenges that the students would be facing will leave them with memories to cherish for a lifetime. Be it the PUZZOLOGIKA or the event ELEVATE, any event in this spectacle. Technothlon calls for a great deal of creativity. Participants with remarkable oratory skills will be battling for the top spot in the event "Big Mouth", which is a group discussion. Requiring a great deal of timing and presence of mind, this event will be both fun and intellectually satisfying. The Science Fair is an event which does call for creativity, or rather authentic creativity. Learning is a continuous process. The youngsters would greatly benefit from the experiences that eminent personalities would be sharing in their lectures. The lectures are not on random topics but on those which are of great use in the future to any science student like
1. Robotics 2. Sports and technology 3. Astronomy
The event Technothlon would be concluded with Vista, in which the students will be given a tour of the beautiful campus and some important and interesting events of Techniche. Ambitious IIT aspirants will reap great benefits from an interactive session about the Joint Entrance Exam [IITJEE]. Calls for participation in TECHNOTHLON have been met with an enthusiastic response. Nearly 30000 students were screened for the same through our preliminary tests, and the final list of participating teams has been streamlined to an elite few, based exclusively on merit. All in all, 450 prodigiously talented students divided into 75 teams are going to battle it out this weekend for the TECHNOTHLON championship.
Riding on the raging successes of ARBIT and BYTECODE, the online module presents its new events:
1. IKKARU: the online puzzle contest: 29th August - 8th September 2. Break the code: 8th September 3. Arbit
There's a plethora of online events to choose from:
Break the code is all about online quizzing. Whiz through 16 checkpoints that test your analytical skills and speed of thought.
Arbit challenges your knack of finding clues on hidden pages, source codes, pictures, and words. As the name suggests, you never really know what's coming your way next. Finding a needle in a haystack seems like child's play compared to ARBIT.
IKKARU is composed of two rounds of ten puzzles each. While the IKAARU FINAFU is a 4 hour marathon to solve 10 pictorial puzzles in the most efficient manner possible, IKAARU FUKUGI is basically a preparation-cum-bumper prize round that consists of a puzzle daily.
Virtual stock market is for people who believe they can negotiate all the buying, selling, rumour-mongering and crashes that dalal street entails.
Huge response for online events of Techniche 2007 across the world, which started a week before Techniche. The first prize in the event Bytecode(online event) has been won by students from Tsinghua University, Beijing. The online module of Techniche 2007 begind before Techniche, and has drawn massive interest from students all over the world. With some of the competitions already done and dusted, we have been overwhelmed by the magnitude and diversity of participation. Out of the 2000 teams registered for various online events, we have teams from the United States, England, Australia, New Zealand, China, Poland, the Ukraine and various countries from around the globe. IKAARU FUKUGI and ARBIT are already up and running(with ARBIT being an unprecedented success, clocking almost 40000 hits in five hours of its start), whereas online VSM is scheduled to start after the Techniche weekend concludes. This event is a utopia for all the gaming lovers and puzzle solvers. With a wide variety of events, ranging from hardcore gaming to interesting coding to detective work to mindboggling puzzle solving, there is something for everyone in this module. With participation in hundreds from all over the country and also from abroad, these remain the highlights of Techniche with participants not requiring to come over to this place to participate and all the students requires is a computer with internet connection! Other events that have had rave reviews include the Trinity of Neo(500 participants short listed to 20 teams for the finale to be held during those 3 days), and Techscribe - the paper presentation contest(105 papers received from across the country).
PARTICIPATION
Universities from all over the world like Stanford University(US); University of California, Berkeley (US); Virginia Tech(US); MIT(Masachusettes Institute of Technology)(US); London School of Economics(UK), Tsinghua University, Beijing have participated in the online module of TECHNICHE 2007. Techniche will be witnessing the Participants across the country from the Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vizag, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Delhi, Srinagar, Ghaziabad, Agra, Lucknow, Banaras, Jamshedpur, Patna, Calcutta, Bhuwaneshwar. The waves made by Techniche 2007 can be judged by the popularity of its website www.techniche.com, which has had over 300,000 hits thus far. Techniche 2007 has been a month long celebration of technical excellence, the highlight of which is the Techniche weekend, being held from the 7th to the 9th of September. IIT Guwahati would also like to extend a formal invitation to the general public to be a part of Techniche 2007, either on-the-spot alongside the 500 colleges across the country particapating, or online through the multitude of events on offer at Techniche Online.
[edit] Organization
The core team works throughout the year with its activities intensifying in the last 6-7 months. The team has an events team, a marketing team, a publicity team, a web design team, a media team and an infrastructure team. The publicity team apart from sending emails, posters also travels to colleges all over India to publicize the event. The Techniche website can be visited here.
