Quiz, project exhibition: PA College of Engineering, Nadupadavu, organised a quiz and project exhibition competition for pre-university students recently.
A total of 350 students from 28 Pre-University colleges from Mangalore and Kerala took part in the competitions. 36 teams participated in the project exhibition and 105 teams participated in the preliminary round of the quiz.
In the quiz competition, Lourdes Central School, Mangaluru, bagged the first place. Canara Pre-University College, Mangaluru, and M.G.M. Pre-University College, Udupi, won the second and third prizes respectively.
Expert Pre-University College bagged the first place for its Induction Motor in the project exhibition competition.
St. Philomena Pre-University College, Puttur, and Yenepoya Pre-University College won the second and third prizes respectively.
Chattanchal Higher Secondary School, Chhattanchal, Viveka P.U. College, Kota, and Poornaprajna P.U. College, Udupi, were awarded the judges’ special appreciation prize in the project competition.
MoU signed: Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, Mangalore, signed a memorandum of understanding with iWave Systems Technologies for a joint collaborative programme for establishing an incubation centre for product development in embedded systems and advanced ARM-based embedded systems laboratory. They are for the benefit of students and teachers.
Abdullah Khan, president of iWave Systems Technologies, and Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman of Sahyadri Educational Institutions, were present on the occasion.
Felicitated: Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor K. Byrappa felicitated K. Vinay Kumar, Karnataka Ratna awardee for kho-kho, recently. He had won the third prize in the All-India men’s cross-country race recently. Speaking on the occasion Mr. Byrappa said that the university had been promoting sports activities.
Cleanliness campaign: Mangalore University conducted ‘Swachata abhiyan’ on its campus at Mangalagangotri recently.
Minister for Health and Family Welfare U.T. Khader launched it. Ganesh Karnik, MLC, said that research institutes and universities should come out with scientific methods of converting garbage into manure and safe disposal of waste.
Ivan D’Souza, MLC, said that in major cities people now have to pay tax for disposal of waste. People should ensure that it should not be extended to rural areas.
