E-Week (Emerging Excellence and Innovations)

Title of the Practice : E-Week (Emerging Excellence and Innovations)

Goal : To enable students techno savvy, ever ready for continuous personal and professional growth.

Context : To bridge the gap between rural academia and culture of the corporate world, it is essential to provide a proper platform to the students to explore their hidden talents. Therefore Department of Computer Science and Information Technology organize Intra-collegiate Technical Fest called ‘E-WEEK’. It is helpful to assemble aspirants from various streams with a high competitive spirit to participate and with strong determination to include their achievements, developing leadership qualities along with soft skills such as time management, team building activities, coordination and cooperation etc.

Practice : E-Week activity proves a valuable lens to view the inner world of students and thereby enable their holistic development.

The entire activity is distributed among various classes like FYBSc-IT, SYBSc-IT, TYBSc-IT, FYBSc-CS, SYBSc-CS and TYBSc-CS. Everyday activity is completely managed by the students including stage arrangement, anchoring, guest’s introduction, vote of thanks, refreshment etc.

The first session of the everyday of the week is engaged with guests’ lecture covering various area of subjects such as stress management, communication skills, scientific temperament, mountaineering, subject related topics etc.

In second session of everyday of the week students  organize various competitions namely Que-Slo Competition, Counter Strike, Qwerty Master, Mad for Maths, Web Designing, Active Brain, Quiz Competition etc. The winners are awarded with cash prizes and trophies, almost for all the events on the last day of the week.

Evidence of Success : Not only from the computer and IT department but the students from other streams of the college also participate in the activity. Students are benefited with high confidence level, good communication skill, audacious, event management skill etc. The participation of the students in the various activities during the week enhances their skills so that they can face interviews for their career.

Problem Encountered and Resources Required : To make available various resource persons and to raise necessary funds.