Petrichor announced the launch of very first edition of their flagship event, the National Technology and Entrepreneurship Summit on September 16-19,2021. The Summit was held in a virtual mode with the participation of students from across the country. Themed on Technology for Tomorrow, the summit aimed at providing the participants with an ideal opportunity to explore the contemporary trends in technology and acquire some essential knowledge and skills. The inaugural address was given by our Director, Prof P B Sunil Kumar and the summit had delegates from companies like Samsung, Wipro, Ernst and Young, etc.

As a part of the INTER-IIT Tech Symphony, The Robotics Club, IIT Palakkad is organising a robotic-simulation competition - Programobot. The participants will have to flex their brains to come up with robust control algorithms for a given bot. There is absolutely no limit for trial and error as it is a simulation.

To create awareness in the minds of the students on taking up a career in Civil Services, Shankar IAS Academy conducted a free orientation session! Adding to it, a student who prepares for Civil Services examinations can easily win 20 plus competitive examinations in this country. They also provided a booklet ( PDF ) which will contain the syllabus, steps and book list recommended for UPSC Civil Services Examinations.

The basic idea is to make people interact, present their analysis by making best predictions and discussing the game of cricket with fellow IITpkd mates. Please note that their is no betting inolved, free to join and planned solely for entertainment purpose.

YACC is starting a CP Topics Discussion Series on a weekly/biweekly basis where we will be covering the important and essential topics for CP. It will help students all while participating in contests and improve your knowledge on these topics and also with internships/placements.

Akshar, the literary arts society of IIT Palakkad, conducted two competitions- on essay writing and on slogan writing. The compeition was open to all students, staff, faculty and their family. The themes or topics for the competitions were: Forest conservation, water conservation or swachchta. The competitions concluded on 22nd of Sept and the entries received are currently under review.

Grafica conducted a poster making competition. The compeition was open to all students, staff, faculty and their family. The themes or topics for the competitions were: Forest conservation, water conservation or swachchta. The competitions concluded on 18th of Sept and the entries received are currently under review.

To keep the chess enthusiasts blitz-ready, the competition was conducted on 18th of Sept on Lichess platform.

SDSLabs and InfosecIITR will be hosting a ScytheCTF event as part of the year-long INTER-IIT (14 participating IITs) Collaboration initiative on 28th and 29th August. A CTF (Capture The Flag) is a contest on the theme of information security/hacking wherein several challenges containing intended vulnerabilities need to be exploited by the participants to gain a string called a "flag", which when submitted on the platform awards the participant with points.

With the internship and placement season right around the corner, we at YACC wanted to make sure all students can get all the help needed for interviews. So, they organized an Interactive session with the Alumni (Batch 2017) of our institute where the alumni shared their interview experiences, followed by a Q&A session. This session was open to all.

Tech Day is a flagship event of the technical council where competitions across all the technical clubs are organized over a span of 2-3 days. 7 competitions were organized as part of Tech Day 2.0

The poster making competition was organized with the theme of independence day in mind and was open to all students across the country.

This world photography day, Shutterbug organized Caption the Capture where any student could caption the wonderful photographs captured by the students of IIT Palakkad.

The social initiative team of petrichor is going to arrange a platform for the SOS team to conduct a campaign in our college. As a part of this wonderful campaign, we are organizing a webinar on Sunday, 15th August.

India Quiz was conducted as a ritual around the independence day. The quiz was concluded on 15th of August where 6 teams had participated in the final of which 3 teams secured the winning positions.

As part of the celebrations for 75 years of India's Independence we have to conduct various fitness related activities. This program will go on from 13-August-2021 till 02-Oct-2021. This will be a group activity where activity by each person will count towards the set target.

Industry Academia Conclave was organized with the vision to bring various industry delegates to our institute where both faculty and students can interact and get to know what is currently being pursued in various industries.

Whenever we watch a web series or complete a movie, we cannot stop ourselves from sharing the review with our friends and we all love doing that. Akshar gave students the opportunity to do so with this competition where a small documentary (15-20 mins) was broadcasted live to the participants over google meet and then students had to answer questions via a google form.

Grafica had conducted a pencil drawing competition in the online mode. Besides three winning entries, two other entries were also given notable mentions owing to the tough competition

The Battle of Bands competition is the flagship event organised by Vadya where 4 or more teams or bands compete with each other. This time, because of COVID, the bands had made recordings of their perfomance and all bands' perfomance was streamed live on 31st of July. The judges for this event were musicians from the band V Minor.They also gave a live performance at the end of the stream and also gave the results thereafter.

This was a design competition held under the Inter IIT Tech Symphony, the collaboration of the technical councils of 13 different IITs.

The workshop aimed to illustrate basic fundamental analysis of stocks and was conducted by the Finance club with Mr Hari Prasad, CEO, Live Long Wealth

Ratham, the automotive club, has set on an avenue to conduct a series of design and simulation sessions on all Saturdays beginning on the 17th July. The CAD (Computer Aided Design) sessions were held on Fusion 360.

Our institute has officially added another cultural club to its tally, the quiz club! The club is now open to students to join and the activities shall begin soon thereafter

The literary club, Akshar, has started a creative writing competition where the students have been given 6 prompts and they are free to write any story, poem, essay or letter on any of the 6 prompts.

As a precursor to the main event, talks and panel discussion were held with industry delegates such Dr. T Jacob John, C Balagopal, and Prof Gautam Menon after which Fusion 360 workshop was also held.

Mr. Biju George was a Former Indian Cricketer and is the current fielding coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Mr. Biju George has also served as the fielding coach for Indian Woman Cricket team and Indian Under 19 team. He shared his experiences in the cricket field and also shed light on various queries students had.

Mr. Amal M Das Author, Speaker, Educationalist and CEO, ARUJNA group was the guest speaker for the EML and intrigued and captivated students on how to choose a meaningful career.

YACC (Yet Another Coding Club) is conducting a series of contests that will be conducted bi-weekly. These contests will be beginner-friendly contests with little to no prerequisites required. So, it's a very good opportunity for all who know some programming language and want to start up with Competitive programming.

The event aims to reconnect the faculty and alumni and rekindle fond memories. Students were also invited during the induction ceremony of the new student team and after the ceremony, the Director was open to any questions from students or faculty

The competition to design a logo for the sports council has been kicked off on the 19th of June and the submission deadline is 15th of July.

The four teams have been formed and have started preparing for Naatya, the intra college mega dance event open to students and club members of Sync To Beat alike.

The music club Vadya has brought the third edition of Batlle of Bands, an event where the interested students and club members alike are divided into a set of four bands who compete against one another delivering good performances and new talents in the process

Coding Ninjas held a workshop at IIT Palakkad for second and third year students on how to prepare for the upcoming internship and job season.

The SAC has collaborated with Ombre, a digital live music streaming platform, and has conducted three events by various artists so far in a series of 4 scheduled events.

11 IITs have come together to host various technical events which will be open to all their students. The first among this series of events was the competitive programming contest hosted by IIT Bhubaneshwar

COVACKATHON was kicked off at 8th June with the ideal to invite students of our institute and beyond to tackle the challenges faced by COVID and TECHIN would provide incubation support to the winners of the 4 day hackathon. Application deadline is 30th of June

YACC is conducting a series of contests that will be conducted bi-weekly. These contests will be beginner-friendly contests with little to no prerequisites required. So, it's a very good opportunity for all who know some programming language and want to start up with Competitive programming.

This PAN IIT Chess club organized a tournament for all the chess enthusiasts who were part of the club

The challenge was to design a future concept car with the notion that it tries to tackle a practical problem.

On the occasion of June 5th World Environment Day, NSS Unit IIT Palakkad had organized a Tree Plantation Drive from June 5th to 10th.

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IIT Palakkad invites you to the launch of The Technology Innovation Foundation of IIT Palakkad (TECHIN), a synergetic catalyst to innovate. This launch takes place on the occasion of the INNODEATE BOOTCAMP. Come join us for the inauguration and the talks.
The program schedule is as follows:
8:30 am,     20 Jan 2021            Welcome address by Prof Sunil Kumar, Director IIT Palakkad.
8:36 am,     20 Jan 2021            Mr Giridhar Krishna, MD Corirubber  gives a few words as our
                                                   sponsor
8:45 am,     20 Jan 2021            Mr Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder, Infosys is keynote speaker at                                                                     Launching TECHIN.    
9:15 am,     20 Jan 2021            Mr Jairam Varadaraj, MD, ELGI Equipments is keynote speaker on
                                                  “Building the state of the future art”
12:15 pm,   21 Jan 2021            Dr Sujatha Srinivasan, R2D2 Lab, IITM speaks on “Innovation on
                                                   Assistive devices”
12:15 pm,   22 Jan 2021            Mr Rajesh P, CEO & Co-Founder,  Rapidvaluesolutions speaks  on
                                                   “Digital Transformation”    
12:15 pm,   23 Jan 2021            Dr L S Ganesh, DOMS, IITM is the speaker on “Marketing and
                                                   System Thinking for Innovation”
12:15 pm,   24 Jan 2021            Mr Gaurav Tripathi, Superpro.ai speaks on “The journey of a
                                                   young Entrepreneur”
12:15 pm,   25 Jan 2021            Dr Srikanth Sundararajan, Partner, Venture east will talk
                                                   on “Startup as a career option”
5:15 pm,     25 Jan 2021            Mr Vipin Sondhi, MD &CEO, Ashok Leyland is the keynote speaker
                                                   “Industry in Innovation”  and will announce the awards.
 
10 am, 20 Jan 2021 onwards till 5 pm 25 Jan 2021 INNODEATE BOOTCAMP conducted by Prof Rajesh M Nair, Prof of Practice, Asia Business School, Malaysia and the participants.  
 
Presentations by student teams: 5:45 pm
 
Live streaming of talks on  https://techin-iitpkd.org    https://iitpkd.ac.in/innodeate-bootcamp
For further details email  csquare@iitpkd.ac.in  or anuradha@iitpkd.ac.in
Phone: +91 9400060382
Please join for the Inaugural and other talks
Please feel free to invite others for the talks or put this on your social media handles.

Due to this pandemic, we have been learning online. But watching classes on mobile phones for quite some time would affect students' well being. Not everyone could afford a projector screen. So as to help such students we bring you Innovation Lab Challenge. Please find the details of the competition in the attached poster. The winner of the competition would get a prize worth 500 Rs. Please submit your solutions in this form. In case of doubts/queries revert back to us.

On 22nd August evening 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM there is a talk by Mr Aditya Ranade (fresh alumni of IITM) who was the lead for the Hyperloop project. This project started as a small project in the innovation lab , grew by leaps and bounds and went on to win awards and the team presented their model and idea to Elon Musk! Aditya will share the journey, It will be an interactive session and you can ask him questions. Google Meet 

22nd August Morning will open the world of “Entrepreneurship, some Problem statements and the way forward” from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM. A sneak peak into the various programs and plans that are rising from the horizon. There is activity involved so please keep a paper and pencil handy and nimble fingers on the chat box.

Google Meet 

An awareness talk on “Innovation, Incubation, Startup at IIT Palakkad” by Dr. Vivek Chaturvedi, Dr. Sandeep Chandran and Ms. Anuradha Shankar. The idea is to create awareness of the opportunities that are opening up at IIT Palakkad. Open your door to the world of Innovation and Incubation.Google Meet

A talk by our alumni Mr.Suraj Tom, Mr.Aditya Obilishetty, Mr.Mayank Gupta, who have represented our college in SIH, and won 2nd position, and as a consequence of which, they found an opportunity to participate in Singapore India Hackathon. Requesting you all to make sure to participate in the talk. This talk is scheduled on 19th August from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. Google Meet

Campus Spotlight, recently launched on the occasion of Friendship Day (30th July), is IIT Palakkad’s very own Campus Radio service brought to you by Petrichor and SAC together. Campus Spotlight aims to be a platform to stream the students’ voice and views on different topics and also a plethora of other shows.

The podcasts will be streamed exclusively on the Campus Spotlight page on Spotify and on the YouTube page of IIT Palakkad, Happenings IIT Palakkad.

 Spotify      Instagram

To address your natural concerns with regards to the next academic semester, we have come up with a doc clearly answering the most common questions/concerns you may have. Please find the doc below.

We are pleased to inform you that we had recently organised the first ever Sports EML on 20th June, 3:00 pm IST. The bio and the title, alongwith the poster, are as below:

Knowing the life behind the tracks: With Ms Sinimole Paulose

Sinimole Paulose is a former Asian Champion from Ernakulam, Kerala. She is the current Asian Indoor Championship record holder for 800m and 1500m running and has five Asian Championship titles (Indoor & Outdoor). She won the bronze medal in 1500m at the 2006 Asian Games and has got 39 international medals to her name. Sinimol Paulose was conferred with the Arjuna Award in 2009 as a recognition to her outstanding achievements.

EdX is one of three big online education platforms in the world. They had floated an offer to give free registration to their collection of courses for students from institutes which had to close down due to Covid-19. Our institute had got some coupons.

Students who are interested to enroll in the mentioned online course can undergo using the coupon code. Please fill the google form attached to get the coupon. Instructions on enrolling using coupons are attached herewith for your reference. It is mandatory that each course should have a coupon per student.  The coupons issued are non-transferable. Each student is permitted to take  a maximum of 3 courses. Kindly note that the Deadline to mark the response in google form is on 23rd June 2020. No further extension will be possible since the timeline is very short (The coupons will expire by June 30). The list of courses is given in the google form. The intro video of edX is also attached herewith for your information.

Please fill the google form to get coupon here.

Please find the course list in the link.

How edX works video link.

A meeting of the SAC executives was held on 08 June 2020. The meeting was rescheduled to 08
June from the earlier date of 07 June due to the works related to the urgent senate. Highlighted items are SAC constitution work, Student Mentorship Cell, Institute Podcast service. Please find the minutes of the meeting here.
 

Student Affairs Council of IIT Palakkad has come into agreement with Coursera for providing free
access to 3800+ courses for IIT Palakkad students under the banner of Coursera for campus. The
program is absolutely free of cost and comes with certification for all the courses.
Program details:

Course Admin : Muhammed Yaseen[​gen_sec@smail.iitpkd.ac.in​]

We feel proud to let you know that Tech Day, Phase-1 is successfully completed with strong participation from all the students. The following events were organised:
1. Coding competition, CodeKarona, in collaboration with the Coding Club.
2. Bio - mimicking design competition, a design competition on Fusion 360, in collaboration with MESA.
3. FMC - a competition to test students' logistics skills, in collaboration with Data Analysis Club (DAC).

We would like to thank all the organizers :
1. The organizers of Codekarona: Shiva Santosh, Priyanshu Srivastav, Rakesh Kumar and Ahmed Dadarkar.
2. The organizers of Bio - mimicking design competition: Arjun K Vikram, Nithin Vishwakarma, Shubham Wakcahure & team MESA.
3. The organizers of FMC: Team of members of DAC.

We would also like to thank Dean (Students), Dr LNT, Dr.Arvind Ajoy and Ms.Anuradha for their constant support and help whenever we needed it.
We would also like to thank Dr. Santha Kumar for taking time to go through all the submissions of Bio-Mimicking design competition and deciding the winners.

With great pride and joy, we are delighted to announce the launching of the official portal for the Students Affairs Council. We would like to thank each and everyone who worked behind this portal for their tremendous efforts.