The winners of the Summer Internship Programme (SIP) of the IBS Hyderabad were felicitated with a certificate and prize money of Rs. 10,000 each by the IBS Alumni Federation (IBSAF). The awards were presented by Santosh Samantray, a solution architect at Infosys Technologies Ltd, Hyderabad.
This year's recipients of IBSAF awards included Gautam Mehta, who pursued SIP at Earnst and Young Pvt Ltd, New Delhi; Ritesh Marwah (National Institute of Securities Markets, Mumbai);
Deepak Khurana (D.E.Shaw & Co, Hyderabad); Yamini Mishra (ITC Ltd, Mumbai); Abhinav Kanagat (Ogilvy and Mather Advertising, Chennai); Krati Gupta (Matrix Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad); Parth Tripathi (Tata Consultancy Services, Hyderabad) and Puneet Kapoor, who pursued SIP at Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, Hyderabad.
Summer Internship Programme at IBS Hyderabad, instituted by the IBSAF, is part of the regular MBA curriculum.
It carries credits and grades are awarded according to the quality, content, thoroughness of the report and like parameters.
The objective of these awards is to motivate students to outperform and invite greater involvement from alumni in the IBS activities.
To be eligible for the awards the final year students who do their SIPs in designated organizations are entitled to participate.
Out of the entire strength of about thousand projects this year, twenty one projects were called for presentations and from them; eight best projects were awarded, said a statement from IBS.
Parameters
These finalists are judged on the various parameters like applicability of SIP findings and recommendations, innovative approach shown, communication and presentation skills, time management, ability to convey the utility and multi-disciplinary feature of the project, defend its core purpose and like.
Dr. J. Mahendar Reddy, Vice-Chancellor, IFHE University, (ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education), Prof. D.S. Rao, Director, IBS Hyderabad; Prof. Hilda Amalraj, Dean, IBS Hyderabad and Dr. Trilochan Tripathy, Area Chair, Economics, IBS Hyderabad were present.
