Summing up the tech

After getting over with "Pace-What's your Game" and a declarative statement of Brig. (Retd.) S. K. Lahiri, Director, AIT, that the Pace will keep its dates of opening ceremony unchanged from now on, i.e. 4th of Feb every year, the incharge for sports events, Mr. A. K. Singh, lecturer in Mathematics, and Miss Monika Sharma (TE Comp) Sports secretary (Girls) took a breath of relief on the closing ceremony night.

Soon followed the Tech-Aakriti. The three day war between the branches setteled down on the final night. The closing ceremony was started by screen projection of final CS match (b/w Comp and E&TC) followed by Movie-making shows. And with almost double margin of scores from the runner up E&TC, the Computer students proved that they are the most techie. And the Tech-Aakriti Trophy went to "The Department of Computer Engineering" compensating the loss of Sports-Aakriti Trophy and Culturals-Aakriti (both of which went to E&TC) to some extent.

As planned, came a series of quizes, both internal and external. And finally, the grand opening of the pride of AIT, the "Solutions Tech Fest" was on Feb 21. Hundreds of students all across the Pune and beyond participated from more than 50 colleges and the scenario was an amazing one. Greetings to for a wonderful completion of these events.

After busy 3 days and successful closing of Solutions, AIT Day was celebrated on Feb 24. Many formalities were to be finished this night and the most awaited among them was the "Aakriti Trophy 2011". To almost all the students, it was an assumption as if the sole winner is E&TC, but the shocking news to all was, that trophy was announced being won by Computers. A dream for Computers since long came true under branch heads, Vinay Mor & Himanshu Chaturvedi (boys) and Parina Magu & Tanvi Agarwal (girls).

To be noted that during Aakriti 2010 (last year), Sports trophy was won by Comp, Culturals by E&TC and Aakrity trophy by E&TC. Tech trophy was not provided last year. Even prior to that, Aakriti 2009 was won in joint by Mech and E&TC.

Well, after the AIT Day night celebrations, returned back the normal routine as the Mid-Semester exams were scheduled from March 1. At present, the same exams are in progress.

Fun facts:

1) After bitterly loosing the final match in Basketball against FC Pune, AIT again won the Pace Trophy like previous year.

2) For the first time (as far as our reporters know to the best of their knowledge), Girls entered the dome above the Boys Mess near OBH this year. This was made in accordance of the chess matches under PACE.

3) ENTC-B was an issue during the Sports-cum-Cultural Aakriti and they were allowed to struggle for the Aakriti independently. On the contrary, no one cared that the points divided then became useless when ENTC-B was broken into 4 parts under Tech-Aakriti. A major skip.

4) The Secretaries made it compulsory this time to have subtitles in Movie-Making (PIXELS) due to last year's experience of noise in recording as well as playback of the dialogues and sound effects. Surprisingly, Mech and Comp had wonderful sound recordings. And Comp was the only branch to have SRT file as subtitles. A techy approach indeed.

5) For all the branches, there were two branch heads in Tech-Aakriti. One of them was a boy and the other was a girl. Mechanical was the only team to have both its branch heads as boys i.e. Pradeep Mishra and Nagendra Singh Chauhan. (Click here to view the source).