Pragyan 2019 to celebrates a technology marvel

By OEM Update Editorial March 22, 2019 12:25 pm IST

Pragyan, NIT Trichy over the years has served as a thriving platform for the expression of science, technology and managerial ventures with sheer brilliance and creativity from the youth populace. Pragyan 2019 is on its path to guide it through the prism of enriching experiences with the theme ‘Spectrum’. This edition of Pragyan will be presented by Larsen and Toubro, co-presented by Times Now, fuelled by GE Healthcare, in association with National Instruments.

These are few steps that have led to this grandeur of appreciating and cherishing the annals of technology. On June 5th, 2018, Pragyan hosted its ‘No Plastic Challenge’ for a span of 5 days to emphasise ‘going green’ on the World Environment Day. A special online quiz called ‘Unearthed’ was conducted to test the participants’ knowledge on the conservation of mother nature.

Pragyan, NIT Trichy, became the registered trademark in the month of September. On 21st of this month, Pragyan commemorated the World Peace Day, themed ‘The Right to Peace’ by taking the oath to strive through its ideals built on justice, equality and harmony.

Pragyan continued its forward trek by conducting its first outreach event, Square One, at SCAD College of Engineering and Technology, Tirunelveli on 13th & 14th of October, 2018. The outreach involved hosting 2 events and 2 workshops.

Sangam, the intra-collegiate hardware hackathon, was officially made open for abstract submissions until the end of November. In December, Pragyan presented Ingenium, a platform for external college students to showcase their enthusiasm and worldly wisdom through their projects.

Pragyan commenced its social responsibility activities, where Pragyan volunteers served the Red Cross Society of Trichy at Event Raksha organized on November 22nd, 2018. The event aimed at incubating awareness on first aid, good and bad touch, among the children at a Government school in Valavandhankottai. Ms Reshma from Nestle provided valuable insights in this regard. Event Catalyst was organised at GHSS Somarasampettai on 23rd November, 2018. It featured workshops on science, quick math and vocabulary. Dictionaries clubbed with 100 ‘words-of-the-day’ that were given as takeaways served as tokens of encouragement to the students.

Pragyan International Model United Nations, PIMUN, was launched in December, 2018.

The Pragyan Hackathon, the annual coding and app development competition was organised at Visteon headquarters in Chennai on 19th and 20th of January, 2019. Jazz Cinemas, Bfirst, Jet Brains, Zoom Car, 4700 BC popcorn, OYO rooms, Hacker earth, Digital Ocean, Suryan FM and Silicon India were the partners for the event. Nearly 25 teams pitched forward their ideas for a better future, in the fields of automotive tech, agri-tech and public distribution systems.

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