Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Programme

Following the Prime Minister's clarion call on 2nd October 2014 for each individual to devote at least 100 hours to Swachhata through the year, the Ministry of Human Resource Development in association with the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation has launched the 'Swachh Bharat Summer Internship – 100 Hours of Swachhata' for college students and NSS volunteers.

The program aims to:
• Develop the skill and orientation of youth for sanitation related work
• Give youth across the country an opportunity to make a significant contribution to the swachhata revolution
• Integrate youth in the community service in rural areas in the run up to the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
The NSS Unit of Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management in association with Ramakrishna Mission, Mangaluru, initiated the programme at Pavoor Government School.

A group of 7 students led by Mr. Kiran Kedilaya from Sahyadri have visited Pavoor Government School under the guidance of Mr. Naveen Pilar to conduct activities pertaining to this programme. Events like Movie Presentation, Talks on Prevention of Diseases, “Best out of Waste” and Competitions like Quiz and Drawing were conducted on the Swachh Bharat Theme. The school children interacted very enthusiastically and gained a lot of exposure.

Team Challengers at SAE INDIA 2018

Team Challengers participated in SAEISS (SAE India Southern Section) at Anna University, Chennai. It is a National Level Three-Day Aerodesign competition where students from all over the country have their active participation.
The Team participated in Micro UAV Class were the achievements are as follows among 111 teams from all over India.
Overall Performance – 2nd Place
Best Design Report – 2nd Place
Highest payload lifted is 1.5 Kg
During the Day One, the students witnessed the Guinness World Record “Long endurance Multicopter”. There was a Technical Inspection of the model in slot 1 and also Technical presentation.
During the Day Two, the team had an assembly round in which the team completed the task within 89 seconds and got the bonus point 50. Initially, in the first round flight test it lifted 1.29 Kg.
During the Day Three, Second flight round was held wherein the team’s plane lifted 1.5Kg.
Valedictory was held in the presence of dignitaries like Dr. S Ganesan, Registrar Anna University who was the Chief Guest; Shri. S Sriraman, Chairman SAEISS; Dr. K Senthil Kumar, Champion ADC & Director MIT Campus; Dr. B T N Sridhar, Head Dept of Aerospace Engineering MIT campus, Anna University, and so on. This was followed by announcement of prizes on various categories.
The team Challengers comprise of :
• Nanda Kumar and Shameer from Mechanical Engineering
• Rakshith and Pranamya from Information Science & Engineering
• Shamanth and Meghana from Electronics & Communications Engineering
• Pramod from Computer Science & Engineering
Few of the participant teams were:
1. Vellur institute of technology
2. Delhi institute of technology
3. Dayanada sagar Engineering and technology
4. Siddaganga institute of technology Tumkur
5. NITC Calicut
6. St. Joseph Engineering & Management College
7. RND engineering college of Engineering
8. SRM University Chennai
9. KLE University
10. Team Garudaswa
11. Jyothi institute of Technology
Apart from these many more colleges from Punjab, Kerala, Nagpur, Hyderbad and so on also participated in the event.

Dr. S Antony Mariadoss invited for a Plenary Talk in an International Conference at St. Thomas College, Thrissur

Dr. S Antony Mariadoss, Professor in Dept. of Mathematics, & Research Mentor was invited by the Chairman, Dr. Ratnakar Bala of IMRF (International Multidisciplinary Research Foundation) to give a plenary Talk on "Mathematical Models for Scientific Research". The session was facilitated during the Two-Day International Conference on Mathematics held at St. Thomas College in Thrissur, Kerala.

Quote for the day

"If you start judging people you will be having no time to love them"
- MOTHER THERESA