‘TechTatva 2015,’ the annual technical festival of Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), Manipal University, gets under way on October 7.
About 3,000 engineering students from across the country are expected to take part in the event. ‘TechTatva’ is a platform for young and innovative minds to come together and present their ideas. Sixty events spanning across engineering fields from mechanical and civil to automation and robotics will be held.
The MIT division of Manipal University Student Research Forum will be launched at the inaugural function. It will facilitate research activities for MIT students; Sathish Shenoy, Head of Aeronautical and Automobile engineering will be its director.
This year’s fest theme is ‘Frugal innovation: Do more with less’. The Manipal Conclave, also to be held during the event, will bring together brilliant minds from diverse fields. Several technical workshops for students will also be held.
Open category this year will have ‘Articulture’, a creative and technical event, based in biotechnology. The main aim of this competition is to make the participants showcase their art using bacteria.
‘A Slice of Life’, another biotechnology event, will encompass all topics from a forensics report to the different biotechnological aspects that go into an investigation. This event will comprise a quiz round first and in the second, each team will be given forensic reports along with a brief introduction to the crime scene. The teams will be graded upon the correct use of forensic tools, correct questions used for deduction and total time taken for solving the case.
Another event in the open category is ‘Space Shuttlement’.
For the Manipal Conclave on October 10 and 11, the speakers will be Aniket Mishra, Managing Editor of Sportskeeda and Kanchan Pamnani, lawyer and social activist. While the fest will be inaugurated at 6 p.m. on October 6 at the Library Auditorium of MIT, the events begin the next day.
3,000 engineering students to participate in the event
