As part of their annual outreach under the aegis of Pragyan, the technology festival, students of National Institute of Technology-Tiruchi conducted competitions for engineering students of Mangalore at Sahyadri College of Engineering and Management, on Saturday.
The outreach event titled Square One, the third in a row - the first two were conducted in Madurai and Coimbatore - attracted a large number of students from various engineering colleges.
The competitions encompassed Memory Challenge won by the host institution; and The ultimate Manager, also won by the same institution.
The final event ‘Outnumbered’ witnessed participants solving intellectually challenging puzzles and trivia.
The Square One Mangalore edition of Pragyan 2018 also featured a workshop giving an Introduction to Machine Learning.
Seventy students took part in this workshop, presented by the RMI (Robotics and Machine Intelligence) club of NIT-Trichy.
A total of 350 students turned up for the programme.
The hands-on expertise they obtained through Square One helped them gain an insight into a wide range of practices in the fields of science, technology and management, the student organisers said.
