Techniche

Techniche
Organisation type Student Run, Non-Profit Organization
Founded 1999
Place Guwahati, India
Institute Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Major events Technothlon, Half Marathon, Lecture Series, Industrial Conclave, Tech-scribe, Junkyard Wars, Brainchild, Social 360, Funniche, etc.
Website http://www.techniche.org/

Techniche is the annual Techno-Management festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India. Techniche was started in 1999 and is generally held in the first weekend of September and lasts for three days and four nights. It comprises numerous competitions, lectures, talks, exhibitions, workshops and nites.

Techniche 2011 shall be held from 1 to 4 September with the theme 'Celebrating Innovation'. With one of the best lecture series line-up in the nation, myriad of competitions, workshops, exhilarating nights and spectacular exhibitions, Techniche'11 promises to be the best and the biggest ever.

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History

Techniche was started in 1999 from a humble two room beginning in the Technology complex of IIT Guwahati and since then has grown substantially in magnitude with a footfall of 15,000 participants from colleges and schools all across India, UAE and Singapore. Techniche has played host to Nobel laureates, leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs like Richard Stallman, Kiran Karnik, Prabhu Chawla, Nathan Schulhof, Dr. John C. Mather, Jeff Lieberman, Mike Fincke, Kiran Bedi, Dr. Raghuram Krishnapuram, Yashavant Kanetkar, Pranav Mistry, Mark Toorock etc.

Techniche is a non-profit organization run by the student community of IIT Guwahati and promotes the development and honing of scientific and entrepreneurial skills in the academia and at the same time being socially responsible with its initiatives towards education amongst the underprivileged trough its module 'We care'. Techniche is relatively very young in comparison to the other major college cultural festivals of India,yet it has established itself amongst the biggest festivals of India in a very short period of time.

The symbol of Techniche are two pixelated saplings, orange and blue in colour. The saplings are the portrayal of how techniche integrates the 'youth' from all around the country and effects red the blue colour stands for the management face of Techniche while the orange represents the technological front of techniche.

Events

The events of Techniche are differentiated into different testing and treating enthusiasts with competitions and lectures and workshops, etc. The module and event structure are as mentioned below -

Event structure

Other initiatives

Guwahati Half Marathon

The Guwahati half marathon initiative was started first on 30 August, Techniche 2009, with a participation of more than 1000 in the two events proposed in the debutante year - The Glory Run(18 km) and The Dream Run(6 km) For the second time it was organized on August 29, 2010 with more than 5000 participants in the 4 categories.This time the event included in addition a '21 km pro run' and a '21 km' cycle race with the motto of shaping the youth's attitude towards the environment and the motto was ~ "Youth for environment" Special attendees included Zublee Baruah-singer, Akash Chopra -cricketer and world’s largest parkour group "American Parkour" and a coverage of the event was provided by Assam Tribune and NDTV India.

Social 360

On March 27, 2011 Techniche organized a one day camp for the children of 'Snehalyala' orphanage visited the campus for a one day tour of the campus and were made part of dance, dramatics, arts workshop conducted by Team Techniche and provided counseling and motivational talks by the institute psychologist and faculty members as a part of the event social 360.

Blood donation camp

Techniche, as a part of its social initiative has held blood donation camps, in the IIT Guwahati Hospital, for the three days the festival commences.

Journey through the years

Techniche 2010[1]

This edition of Techniche was held from 2nd to 5th September, 2010. It included live performances by "American Parkour" and the introduction of the first ever Industrial Conclave of the festival.

Techniche 2009

Techniche 2008

This was the decade edition of Techniche and saw the lecture series module include Nobel laureate Dr. John C. Mather. The events of Techniche 2008 included-

Techniche 2007

Inaugurating on the 7th of September, Techniche 2007 is a three day celebration of innovation. In this edition of Techniche TechnicheOnline was launched and universities from all over the world like Stanford University(US); University of California, Berkeley (US); Virginia Tech(US); MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(US); London School of Economics(UK), Tsinghua University, Beijing participated in the online module of TECHNICHE 2007.

Techniche witnessed the participants from across the country including the Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vizag, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Delhi, Srinagar, Ghaziabad, Agra, Lucknow, Banaras, Jamshedpur, Patna, Calcutta, Bhuwaneshwar.

The major events of this edition of Techniche were -

References

  1. ^ Techniche 2010 archives

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