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APOGEE Events
WRAPPER – coz presentation matters.
The Presentation championship
Championship: Rs 1000
We give the topic, you present your ideas.
Topic: Students for Change
Rules:
- Maximum 3 members per team. Individual participants are allowed.
- Elims: Elevator pitch- This will be a 100 sec pitch for your idea without any aids. This round will be held in case of a large number of participants.
- Final: A presentation is to be made using any aids necessary ranging from PowerPoint presentations to any props that the participant finds the need for. Props will have to be brought by the participants. A computer, projector and black board will be made available by us.
- Duration: Maximum 15 minutes.
Registrations can be mailed to rotaractbits@gmail.com. On the spot registrations will also be there.
The event is on the 13th March, 2008 at 10 am at 3160
Contact: Ajay Bhat +91 99294 84515 ajaykbhat@gmail.com
INNOVATE & CREATE
Participants will be given a wide and generalized task (e.g. Ways to reach college faster).
They will then have to design a solution, which can either be an indigenous design or a modification to the already existing ones. The design may be as simple as adding a screw to a machine. No credit for complexity.
Team Size: A maximum of 6 people per team. Students only
Procedure:
Eliminations:
Online, the best 10 designs will be chosen based on the blueprints submitted.
Judgement Criteria – Points will be awarded based on five criteria of Innovation: Uniqueness, Usefulness, Simplicity, Efficiency and Marketability.
Finals:
Two rounds-
1) Presentation: Submission of the working model along with a presentation to the judges. (Video ads, PowerPoint presentations, print ads etc)
2) Face to face: Cross questioning by the panel of judges.
(participants are advised to have a good idea of marketing)
Announcement of the task: 22nd February, 2008.
Last date for registration: 29th February, 2008.
Last date for submission of blueprint: 2nd March 2008
(Blueprint can be a rough sketch along with a description, in the following formats: jpeg, AutoCAD -(more than 1 if a 3D perspective is reqd.), google sketchup.
Announcement of Finalists: 3rd March 2008
Date of Finals: to be announced
To register:
Send an e-mail containing:
Subject : InCreg
Name of the college
Names of the team members
to any of the following:
rotaractbits@gmail.com
f2006159@bits-pilani.ac.in
Contact: Vineet Keshari +91 98874 98825 vineet.keshari@gmail.com
Project Saksham
Project Saksham aims at economically empowering women by making
entrepreneurs out of them. Targetted at the wives of the supporting
staff working at BITS Pilani, it hopes to alleviate their economic
condition.
Out of the various products/services we thought of, we zeroed onto
Mushroom farming. Oyster mushrooms are very much in demand and can be
grown in the climatic condition of Pilani. We identified a family with
enough space to build a shed which would be used to grow mushroom. the
shed has been built and we are in the process of procuring spawn and
planting it. A major problem we shall face is to prevent the
contamination of the agro-base on which the mushroom grows.
We had considered producing broomsticks as an option. There is a very
steady market for brooms in the Institute's maintainance division and
the skill required is not high. We surveyed the market and visited a
unit at rajgarh which manufactures brooms. We had to shelve the idea
when procuring raw material on small scale (compared to our
competitors) at competitive rates was not possible.
Bagar Career Mela
The Rotaract Club of BITS Pilani, went to Bagar to help out the NGO, Indicorps with the organization of a Career Mela(Fair). Indicorps is in the process of setting up a rural BPO in Bagar and the organization of the Career mela was a run up to their training programme. Rotaract was there to help out with any translation and communication problems that the Indicorps volunteers had(as they are largely Indians from abroad with not much fluency in hindi).
The event had two parts. One comprised of street plays informing the people about work environments and job interviews. The other was two booths setup in the area to guide people about career opportunities and resume making.In the street plays, Volunteers from Rotaract and Indicorps acted out a bad job interview and a good one. The people watching, who were mostly the youth of the area, who were either about to enter the professional world or have just entered it, were asked to point out what were good and bad in the interviews. Similarly, good and bad workplace ethics and attitudes were shown and people were asked point out the pros and cons. After this everyone went to the booths. At the career counselling booth, volunteers cleared people’s doubts about various professions, college degrees and other career related issues. The crowd consisted of a large percentage of 11th and 12th students who had many doubts about the various entrance examinations to the multitude of colleges in India. As students who have only recently passed this stage, Rotaract volunteers were able to help a lot. At the resume booth, two laptops and a printer were setup. The crowd had negligible or no knowledge about resumes and how they are made. So volunteers quizzed participants about their personality, education and other technical and soft skills. Then we made sample resumes for their dream job profiles and gave them printouts.
At the end of this entire endeavour, the participants walked away with more information and awareness about the professional world and various aspects related to it such as interviews, workplace attitudes, opportunities and resumes.
