They say, be technical by technique. They say don't make me walk when I can fly.
Budding techies of BIT-Sindri, the sole state-run engineering college, have begun the hunt for the institute's most innovative brains, three of which would be felicitated at the annual fest Sandhaan, Sharpen Thy Arrow, which has been scheduled for February 2017.
The official techno management student club of BIT Sindri, Model Club, which hosts Sandhaan, has declared opening of entries for The Techie of the Year contest, for which interested BTech first-year students can submit innovative ideas online on http://www.facebook.com/modelclubofficial.bitsindri or on http://sandhaan.net/ till January 2017.
For the first round of screening, concepts will be scrutinised on Facebook or Sandhaan website's blog section. The candidate will have to answer questions asked by BIT-Sindri professor on Facebook or Sandhaan website so that substandard or plagiarised ideas are weeded out immediately.
"The best ideas will be presented at Sandhaan fest," said third-year computer science engineering student of BIT-Sindri, Ankit Avishek, also the public relations officer of Model Club. "Here, candidates will face another battery of questions from professors. Candidates can make presentations or diagrams to explain what their innovations are all about," Avishek said.
Model Club president Master Ankit said they wanted students who were confident of their ideas and could explain them well.
"Clarity is the essence of innovation, which is something we want in our best techie," said Ankit, who is also a third-year BTech student of electronics and communication engineering.
He added last year they received over 60 entries of which 30 were eliminated after initial screening. "We prefer genuine ideas and run a thorough check on whether the ideas are copied from Internet," he said.
Vishal Kumar, Model Club secretary and BTech third-year student of electrical engineering, said many ideas presented during last year were very useful like models of a saline drip alarm developed by Alok Kumar and insect repellent devised by Rahul Kumar.
