TEDxSCEM 2019 – “How Unpredictable Are You?”

Sahyadri hosted its very first TEDxSCEM on July 28th’19, Sunday, an event organized under the banner of TEDx. The programme had a combination of 8 speakers and various cultural performances. It saw participation from 70 enthusiasts ranging in the age group from 16 to 85.

Gist of the Talks:
• Mr. Siddharth Rajhans, Principal Policy Officer United Nations, spoke on Entrepreneurship Domain and explained about the new trends and developments in the economy
• Mr. Swastik Padma, Young Scientist and Innovator from Puttur, spoke on Technical Domain and shared his journey from a small village of Puttur to getting a minor Planet named after him
• Ms. Kavitha Mishra, an Agriculturist known for her innovative Agricultural techniques, encouraged youth to develop interest in farming and gave inputs on how one can make farming a profitable one
• Ms. Dhanya Ravi, popularly known as the “Glass Woman” with more than 300 fractures in her body, inspired the audience with her remarkable stories on how she overcame all odds to lead a happy life
• Ms. Karishma Arora, All India CBSC Topper and a Classical Dancer, entertained the audience by demonstrating the Power of Dance and its benefits to the individuals
• Dr. Rohan Chandragatti, Senior Consultant-Dept. of Oncology, Mangalore Institute of Oncology, spoke on the unpredictable nature of Cancer and how one can cope up with this dreadful disease
• Brigadier I N Rai, Army Veteran, with his talk on “A soldier you don’t know” filled the audience with emotions of pride, joy and at the same time with sadness quoting the stories of the unsung heroes of India who sacrifice everything to the one thing – Motherland
• Mr. Ankith S Kumar, a Behavioural Scientist and Psycho-Social Counsellor at Sahyadri, motivated the audience to find happiness in small achievements of their everyday life and explained how emotions influence them and their surroundings
The attendees were given various takeaways & goodies as souvenirs of the event.

A special mention about Basavarajeshwari Ambi from 2nd Year Dept. of Information Science & Engineering and Srujan U from 2nd Year Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering who worked collaboratively since the last 7 months to procure the TEDx License to organize a TEDx event in the campus until they received a go-ahead from the approving authority at TEDx. The event was executed by these 2 coordinators along with their enthusiastic team of 30 volunteers.

MBA Faculty deputed for a Train the Trainers (T3) One-Week IBM Workshop on “Data Analytics” organized by Mangalore University

Prof. Girish M and Prof. Sushma V from the Dept. of Business Administration-MBA were deputed for a Train the Trainers (T3) One-Week IBM workshop on Data Analytics during 22nd to 27th July’19 organized in collaboration with Mangalore University. The main objective of the workshop was to create a pool of Experts ready to take up Future Trainings on Data Analytics and also mentor the Mangalore University Incubation Centre (MUIC). The Workshop focussed on topics related to Business Intelligence Concepts, Knowledge of Dashboards, Reports & Metrics, Concepts of Big Data and its characteristics and also Hands-On Training on Tableau, a Data visualization tool.

Orientation Programme for Third Semester students of Electronics & Communication Engineering

On Day 3 i.e., 27th July’19, the Orientation programme for the Third Semester students of Electronics & Communication Engineering concluded with the Laboratory visit where in students had a session on the importance of academic labs which will be a part of their course, connectivity with not only theory and practicality but also one lab to another lab.

During the visit, Basic theory, Equipments used, List of experiments, Do’s & Don’ts, Safety measures and Applications of each laboratory were explained by the faculty members.

Second Session on Future Skills - AR/VR/MR and Social Mobile

Sahyadri Future Skills - AR/VR/MR and Social Mobile organized its second session on 27 July, 2019. The session was engraved on the topic “Exploring Augmented Reality through Mobile Applications”, with the intent of up-skilling the staffs of Sahyadri. Prof. Pooja N S, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering facilitated the session by illustrating the mobile application - “HP Reveal” and its features giving an insight on the concepts of Augmented Reality deployed in it. The session was then followed by a group discussion on “Augmented Reality”. A total of 4 groups were framed and the groups were assigned to deliver a talk as a yield of their discussion.

Quote for the day

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."
- Henry Ford