Day 3. The last and final day of Infofest 2007. Fortunes (literally :-)) could be won or lost. Who will keep their cool and be there at the finish line unscathed? We sure wanna!
Luckily we could come in leisurely today. No events till 10am. We were greeted with some very welcome breakfast. One thing has to be said, the organisers are leaving no stone untouched in the hospitality department. (They even promise food as an incentive for attending the seminars. Maybe if they had to enforce a point system, there would have been more audience.)
First up was the debate (tete-a-tete). We cleared the prelim round yesterday and were through to the next. There was worthy competition especially from Chowgule College. It went smoothly and I'm happy to say that Rahul and myself won the 1st prize in the debate. We had also placed a joker on the event... so, JACKPOT!
There's an interesting thing I noticed about the organisers of Infofest. Every time you see one of them, they are wearing something different. I mean, first it was a skirt... 10 mins later the same girl was in a salwar, and 20 mins later in a saree! Amazing... How do you guys manage that???
Tech Twister is going on and we're hoping for a win. Oh wait a sec... here they come... AND THEY HAVE COME ..... third :-( But, we are proud of them and as a team we will rise like the Phoenix and be there to meet the overall trophy.
Time to sign out... I gotta go for The Architect. But before that, I want my lunch! Better rush otherwise there may not be any left (just kidding, there's enough for all).
In case I don't get a chance to post again before the event ends, I just want to say that Infofest has been a very interesting event. The organization has been good, but maybe you guys could try to get more participation next year.
We're hoping to win, and if we do, everyone's invited for the post party (hopefully sponsored by the organizers :-) )
- Reuben D'Mello
Friday, December 21, 2007
Infofest Day 2
The second day for our team started at 8 in the morning. We decided this the previous evening as we had to reach here and work on our Three - Marketeers' materials designing the product.
We were escorted to the old computer lab on request by the organizers. There me and my team started working parallely through brain storming.
After a while of rigorous stress on our brains we came up with an idea. The idea was about a lounge chair that was combined with a mixer, that could serve as a juicer. This product was of innovative type as it isn't available in the market.
We named the product, the "MixSit", a product that was a combo of a lounge and a mixer that could give a glass of delicious and nutritious fruit juice at the touch of a button, while its user could enjoy his favorite movie or an episode.
The features we decided for it were, its detachable juicer, rechargeable battery and portable. We designed two models of it, the SuperA and the SuperZ. The SuperA model was particularly for making juice, cocktails and mocktails. The SuperZ had added components like a variety of blades for use in kitchen as well. Also this model had wheels attached to it for easy locomotion.
The ad we designed was the funniest of all. We decided, for the ad my friend Reuben D'Mello would play the role of the advertiser speaking to the audience, while my friend Rahul Rudra Devan, would play the role of a typical Boss in an office with a "Bossy gesture" and me playing the role of a humble and hard working employee, who follows all the commands of his Boss(Rahul).
In the ad Reuben would interact with the audience telling them how difficult and tiring a typical day is at the office and me and Rahul would play a small scenario of that wherein he commands me over and over again to get some reports and me running from one place to another to get the same. Rahul would then throw one of my reports angrily and I would collect the pages and return home. At home I fall tiredly on the chair and wish to have a drink, but too tired to go inside leaving the TV in front of me.
At this time Reuben announces the product we designed while the slide splashes onto the screen and Rahul gets for me the board drawn by Venkat and Hanish to me as an answer to my wish. And then I start dancing the beach dance in my formal dress. This was the funniest part of it, where all the audience and the judges brst into laughter. Then Rahul, me and Reuben explained the product. Thanks to the judges, the organizers and of course the Almighty that we won the first place later after the competition.
We finished all with the product work by 9 and turned out at the event site for a stomachful of breakfast. The organizers had arranged for us bread and the "Bhaji", along with tea. We rushed with the breakfast. At 9.30 am myself, Reuben and Rahul went to present the ad, and then continue with the competition in which we were presented with two ads, the fevicol and an ad about eye donation.
Later then Reuben and Hanish participated for the Architect to draw the OOP styled class diagrams. While they went there, Venkat and Rahul assisted me to review the code we got the previous night, and also to prepare a presentation on the same. It was almost 2 by then. So my friends went for lunch while I stayed there still working on the same and of course had to sacrifice the lunch. This sacrifice was not in vain after all, thats because we secured the second place.
After the lunch soon then my friends Rahul and Reuben participated in the Tete-e-Tete at 2. Later at 2:30 myself and Reuben continued with the Deep C final round presentation. The presentation we developed was of professional type, containing info about Software Engineering.
Later after the Deep C, me and Venkat attended the lecture related to OOP concepts by Sahani, as we wanted to see him, because he is one of the authors whose book we had to read in the third semester of our college universities.
Later the organizers served tea, that I drank 4 cups, as I was hungry since afternoon. Later I reached home and narrated the day to my parents, and the later to my class friends over the internet.
By Alkan William Borges
We were escorted to the old computer lab on request by the organizers. There me and my team started working parallely through brain storming.
After a while of rigorous stress on our brains we came up with an idea. The idea was about a lounge chair that was combined with a mixer, that could serve as a juicer. This product was of innovative type as it isn't available in the market.
We named the product, the "MixSit", a product that was a combo of a lounge and a mixer that could give a glass of delicious and nutritious fruit juice at the touch of a button, while its user could enjoy his favorite movie or an episode.
The features we decided for it were, its detachable juicer, rechargeable battery and portable. We designed two models of it, the SuperA and the SuperZ. The SuperA model was particularly for making juice, cocktails and mocktails. The SuperZ had added components like a variety of blades for use in kitchen as well. Also this model had wheels attached to it for easy locomotion.
The ad we designed was the funniest of all. We decided, for the ad my friend Reuben D'Mello would play the role of the advertiser speaking to the audience, while my friend Rahul Rudra Devan, would play the role of a typical Boss in an office with a "Bossy gesture" and me playing the role of a humble and hard working employee, who follows all the commands of his Boss(Rahul).
In the ad Reuben would interact with the audience telling them how difficult and tiring a typical day is at the office and me and Rahul would play a small scenario of that wherein he commands me over and over again to get some reports and me running from one place to another to get the same. Rahul would then throw one of my reports angrily and I would collect the pages and return home. At home I fall tiredly on the chair and wish to have a drink, but too tired to go inside leaving the TV in front of me.
At this time Reuben announces the product we designed while the slide splashes onto the screen and Rahul gets for me the board drawn by Venkat and Hanish to me as an answer to my wish. And then I start dancing the beach dance in my formal dress. This was the funniest part of it, where all the audience and the judges brst into laughter. Then Rahul, me and Reuben explained the product. Thanks to the judges, the organizers and of course the Almighty that we won the first place later after the competition.
We finished all with the product work by 9 and turned out at the event site for a stomachful of breakfast. The organizers had arranged for us bread and the "Bhaji", along with tea. We rushed with the breakfast. At 9.30 am myself, Reuben and Rahul went to present the ad, and then continue with the competition in which we were presented with two ads, the fevicol and an ad about eye donation.
Later then Reuben and Hanish participated for the Architect to draw the OOP styled class diagrams. While they went there, Venkat and Rahul assisted me to review the code we got the previous night, and also to prepare a presentation on the same. It was almost 2 by then. So my friends went for lunch while I stayed there still working on the same and of course had to sacrifice the lunch. This sacrifice was not in vain after all, thats because we secured the second place.
After the lunch soon then my friends Rahul and Reuben participated in the Tete-e-Tete at 2. Later at 2:30 myself and Reuben continued with the Deep C final round presentation. The presentation we developed was of professional type, containing info about Software Engineering.
Later after the Deep C, me and Venkat attended the lecture related to OOP concepts by Sahani, as we wanted to see him, because he is one of the authors whose book we had to read in the third semester of our college universities.
Later the organizers served tea, that I drank 4 cups, as I was hungry since afternoon. Later I reached home and narrated the day to my parents, and the later to my class friends over the internet.
By Alkan William Borges
Infofest Day 1
Being here last year, it was but natural for us to make sure we made it this time too. We cannot miss infofest!! Its a tech event very well organised and sponsored!
We reached late at 1.00pm on the 1st day ...... not because we were willing to but unfortunately had our 7th semester vivas that day. Reaching late has to be bad somehow and we lost 5 valuable points for not being there in the introduction session! We knew that we were at a disadvantage but did not lose any hope.
We had
our lunch which was really very good and .... there was our 1st event!! One team for Deep C and another for Tux - o - nomy. Very nice C questions was asked for deep C and Deadly linux questions for Tux - o -nomy( y deadly you'l will soon come to know).These were the preliminary rounds . We cleared in Deep C but had bad luck in Tux - o -nomy(there's always a next time i guess :) he he).
After that we participated in 3 marketeers and web weavers.Our team rocked for the 3 Marketeers and were sure to qualify.But what about Web weavers?? The team was not quite sure coz they had answered tux - o- nomy better then web weavers.But when the results were declared we were surprised we qualified for web weavers and ofcourse for 3 marketeers too!
Then was
the 1st round for Deep C.Our team got prepared for it and were raring to go!A C program related to continents needed to be executed.Our team was successfull in that and qualified for the final round which was code review.Then came one of the most awaited moments of the day .... the seminar of none other than Mr. Pankaj Jalote. He is the author of various books like Software Project Management in practice .. etc .We saw him for the first time in reality.His seminar
was just too good and the entire crowd appreciated it.Everyone was very tired after a whole day of exciting events and fun.But the organisers had more to provide us.They gave us refreshments .... tea and samosa.Well have to say this to the organisers "Hats off to u!".
Oh wait!! i f
orgot one main event!! Grey cells.Puzzles were put every hour on the notice board and participants had to solve them and put their answers into the grey cell box provided at the reception. A person having the correct answer would get 5 points which would be counted for one of the finest individual events "The Aristocrat".Well this was day 1 .... coming soon with day 2 so don't go away!! Its hell lot of fun.
link to official site: http://infofest.co.in
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