Jamshedpur : The students of National Institute of Technology,(NIT), Jamshedpur, along with budding technocrats from the countryard having a great time as the three-day annual culturalfest�Ojass -2015 kicked off.
The sixth edition of the techno-management festival of would see students vying for a prize of Rs. 15 lakhs. The megaevent with the mega prize money where winner takes all is a uniqueevent with the combination of mechanical and electronic obstacles andmazes organised to provide the ultimate challenge in robot design. Itis for the first time that a large amount has been kept as a prize ina technical fest.
“This festival had been an event of the students’ intense labour,passion and participation in huge numbers from colleges all over thecountry. Notably,�it is a platform for all the budding engineers andto pit their skills against the best in the country in events likeBusiness & IT quizzes, programming competitions, softwarepresentations, case study and model creation,” said an official ofNIT,Jamshedpur
Basically it’s a programme conceived by the students, for the studentsand of the students. And hopefully, this year too the festival shallwitness large participation from across the country, said Srikanth, coordinator of the events.
The festival would see some genius minds from the likes of IIT,Kharagpur, NIT, Durgapur, BIT-Mesra, BITS, Pillani, IIT, Roorkieromancing with their creative engineering thoughts during the event,he informed
Besides, he said guest lectures and seminars by eminent professors onthe contemporary subjects and latest technologies shall take placeduring the festival.
Notably, NIT (erstwhile Regional Institute of Technology) is one ofthe eight regional engineering institutes established in the countryin the year 1960. The Institute was fully taken over by the CentralGovernment on 1st April, 2003 and renamed National Institute ofTechnology.
With 85 events across streams of engineering, this is the second largest techno management fest after IIT Kharagpur. About 1600 students from over 40 engineering schools are participating in the fest which is on its sixth year.
