Villgro Unconvention in Chennai

Written by: admin | November 24th,2009 | Uncategorized

Villgro’s ‘Unconvention’ – where path breakers meet path makers’, will be held on December 10-12 at Hotel Green Park in Chennai,India. The 4-in-1 convention also have ‘Wantrapreneur’ – India’s Biggest Business plan competition for social innovators,which focus on agriculture,energy,diary and water sectors. Participate and get a chance to win 12 lakhs in cash prizes and meet social investors.

Eminence 09 at Sahrdaya

Written by: admin | October 29th,2009 | Uncategorized

Department of computer science and engineering (ACES) of Sahrdaya College of Engineering and Technology are conducting a three day International Symposium called EMINENCE 2009 from 16th November to 18th November 2009.

Eminenet Speakers from various institutues from India and abroad like Mr. Joseph Sirosh, Vice President ,AMAZON.COM,Seattle,USA, Mr ANKIT FADIA FBI ranked WORLD NO 2 ETHICAL HACKER, Mr. Arafath Aboobacker, Team-Lead Technical, NIIT Technologies, Bangalore , Mr EDISON FRANZ managing director of INTELLIGENTSIA. are the main attraction of the symposium.
Each day has a distinct theme namely Technical (Day 1), Entrepreneurship (Day 2) and Soft Skills (Day 3).There is a conference on the second day on developing Entrepreneurship in which delegates from different companies likeWipro,Adobe,HP,Igate,UST global,TCS, Mind tree, Infosys, and more will participate. On the third day we have a talk on building leadership and soft skills by Mr. Edison Franz.

Ten Technical and non technical competitions are another attraction Eminence 09

The Pedal to Freedom

Written by: admin | October 22nd,2009 | Uncategorized

GreenDream – An enviornmental network in Kerala along with IYCN Bangalore, Hyderbad and Chennai is organising The Green Ride- A 1400 km cycling tour.

Why 1400 kms ? This Distance is four times the most important number: 350 x 4 = 1400 km.

While 350 represents the safe limit of CO2 in the atmosphere, the number 4 represents the actions in the four directions : North , south , east and West. The cycling tour starts at 3:50pm (ppm).

This cycling, tour spanning a distance of 1400km, starts from Trivandrum to Chennai , Tamil Nadu through Bangalore. The main focus of this tour will be raise awareness through the way, and raise critical concern among the leaders and decision makers.

While awareness about climate change is increasing, the world has not yet mobilized into action and implementation of climate solutions. We are looking for support to change this reality and create, communicate and celebrate the solutions to climate change during The Green Ride to Copenhagen which will also make students and the general public aware of the role of renewable energy and green technology in developing a sustainable future and economically vibrant India.

By undertaking this Cycling tour, we will lobby for the rights of cyclists and for laws that offer protection to cyclists through dedicated cycling lanes as well as through support for safety regulations. We hope to work with the government administration to bring about change aimed at encouraging cycling in our cities, and also aimed at promoting cycling as a greener, cleaner and healthier mode of transport.
Objectives of Road to Copenhagen Cycling tour-

• To create awareness among people on Climate Change
• To involve and encourage student participation in such environmental activities.
• To harness the power of the media through the course of the tour in order to reach a larger group of society.
• To ensure safety norms at all times with emergency backup support.
• To partner with regional NGOs and organizations and create a climate action network.
• To utilize corporate support for ensuring a successful event.
• Target Audience : Public from all walks of life, youth who could get inspired by our campaigns and lead on to do the same in their regions, people who love to cycle, people who love to raise an awareness on the cause, enthusiastic about the environment, people who could literally make a difference, people who could stand up for what is justified and right, getting maximum youth insight onto the fight for a solution for Climate change and Global warming, public who could welcome such an initiative by the youth and have the same transferred into their lives as well.
• Media Converage: For mass outreach to public for general awareness. Raising concerns and debates among leaders, decision makers, and critics.

for more info contact :

Vinuju Nizar Yousuf
      Co-founder, State Campaigns Coordinator

      GreenDream

      09995118995

Help them to make a difference

Written by: admin | October 20th,2009 | Uncategorized

MAD has entered an online competition called Indiya Shine Awards, that identifies new and promising organizations in India and promotes them in their Magazine “Little India” which is the largest overseas Indian Publication. MAD- Make a Difference is an Organization of young people working amongst orphans and other underprivileged kids to provide them with quality education

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If you have ever got an opportunity to interact with their volunteers or children and if they have touched your life in any way, do take 2 mins and write a two line review about them here

http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/make-a-difference

It would help create awareness about their work and raise some funds for their activities in India. If you have the time, do check out our blog: www.makeadiff.in/blog to a sneak peak on what’s going on in MAD
Astral Arena already did a wonderful work in helping MAD to win the prestigious Asoka Awards last year. Lets help them for this great initiative

MY FIRST COLLEGE STRIKE!!!!!

Written by: Jayeshbai | October 13th,2009 | Campus News

Today, October 13th is an unforgettable day in my life. I have enjoyed the taste of my first college strike. The reason for strike is very funny. One of our seniors were commented by One of my batch mates and our management dismissed him from our college. And hence it leads to a strike. Today our Series Exam started and during the afternoon session the students were not ready to attend the exam. And the management tried to compromise the strike but went in vain…..Anyway i enjoyed the Strike Day. JAI MATHA COLLEGE

Dont Ignore Their Creativity

Written by: admin | October 10th,2009 | Posts from "The TEAM", Updates 4 Blogger's

The students now in our campuses are the future of India. Budding Directors, Artists, Leaders, Engineers, Professors are among us. The famous music director M.Jayachandran is an Electrical engineer from CET. New Generation Music Director Rahul Raj is a B.tech graduate from CUSAT.We could make a long list of Successful Engineers in Movie and other industries. So next time when your friend tell you about a short film or music album, dont ignore him. He may be the future of indian Movie Industry

Ten Top Directors of Malayalam Movie Industry join hands together for a new movie Kerala cafe which is setting a new milestone in the history of malayalam movie industry. Innovative ideas always comes from campuses. These Directors are also the product of 10 different campus in kerala. They designed a cool poster in which they are requesting students to analyze this movie.

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Campus Blogs are the platform for sharing your hidden talents. Remember our caption ” Discovering Talents Every day”. So Come up with your creative ideas like Short Films, Stories, Cartoons animations or anything like that. Dont ignore any piece of creative talent in our campus, share it to others..

Barcamp Kerala 6 at Rajagiri

Written by: admin | September 19th,2009 | Techno Updates | tags: barcamp kerala

Barcamp is back. Barcamp kerala 6 will happen at the serene campus of Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kakkanad on the 11th of October 2009. Barcamp is not new to Cochin, Barcamp Kerala 2& 3 were hosted by the Cochin University Campus.

For those who raise their eye brows on hearing the word bar.. Barcamp has nothing to do with drinking or bars.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

BarCamp Kerala is your best chance to meetup all the coolest techies from Kerala. If you are a techie of any scale, do make it to BarCampKerala!

Register | Take a Session | Promote

Please do blog about the event and let maximum people know

Flash Mob for a global wake up call

Written by: admin | September 15th,2009 | Posts from "The TEAM" | tags: flash mob

Climate change is putting life on earth in peril. There is still time to build a greener, safer world. But the clock is ticking. In December world leaders will meet in Copenhagen to decide our destiny.We want our political leaders to be in Copenhagen and to show historic leadership in achieving a treaty which is fabulous.The world needs a wake-up call on climate change. In September a perfect storm will gather with the the UN General Assembly on Sept 22 and the G20 leaders meet on 24-25.
A flash mob is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.
In Kerala, the flash mob will be held in Trivandrum, the capital at 3.50 pm..Calling all youth out for a once-again Youth Climate Action to show that a demand is needed from the public side for a binding treaty by all the world leaders and we want our leaders to know and understand that the time to act and take up actions is NOW

flash mob happened in cochin

On August 29th, the Flash Mob conducted at Oberon Mall, in Cochin,was successful in sending a strong voice to the public regarding the importance of the UN summit on Climate Change to be held from Dec7 in Copenhagen..Also the day saw hundreds of youth from different parts of the state,supporting organizations

Lights Out Campaign

Written by: admin | September 8th,2009 | Uncategorized

ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message – switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

How can you contribute?

Grow more trees. Use Energy efficient equipments. Practice transport simplicity, Switch on lights only when it is necessary, Turn off your lights when not in use. Adapt an eco-friendly lifestyle. Reduce waste & Conserve water. Trap methane and convert it as fuel.

Battle Of The Brains : ACM-ICPC Asia Regionals @ Amrita University – Kerala

Written by: saranjith_amrita | September 4th,2009 | Uncategorized | tags: ACM, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, Baylor University, Kerala, Programming

Its that time of the year again when brains from all over theAsiameet each other face2face, compete with all their programming and problem solving skills in C , C++ and Java.. Yes..!! You guessed it right.. its ICPC time again atAmrita University..!!

Welcome to ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest2009 Asia Regionals, the multitier, team-based, programming competition operating under the auspices of ACM and headquartered at Baylor University.

ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals – Online Contest over internet will be held at Amrita University,Kerala.

Each team will consist of 3 members, all undergraduate, and they will be asked to solve a set of 8-10 programming challenge problems – mostly based on algorithms, within a period of 4 hours.!! The choice of programming language between Java, C++ and C is upto the team.

How to register????

A team can only compete in ACM ICPC 2009 Asia Regionals, if-n-only-if they’ve registered for the same. So, register here

Registration is for one team, consisting of 3 contestants and one coach. The “coach” refers to any full time faculty member of the university or institution, where the contestants pursue their studies.

The contest rules can be found here: Rules_ACM_ICPC09

Hurry up!!! Last date for registration is: 9 September 2009.

Contestant Feedback of the previous contests:

http://sathyaphoenix.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/acm-icpc-asia-regionals-amrita-university-kerala/

http://amritaicpc.wordpress.com/

For more info, visit http://icpc.amrita.ac.in/site/