Ranchi: The second day of JINKS-Pranav, the annual techno-cultural fest of National Institute of Foundry and Forge Technology (NIFFT), Hatia, witnessed a fine blend of fun and seriousness.

The events lined up for the day included a T-shirt painting competition, I-rock-a rock music competition-and a fashion show.

The response to the events can be gauged from the fact that organisers had to hold a preliminary round owing to the large number of participants who turned up for the T-shirt painting competition.

The rock rendition of the state's folk music by local bands during I-rock left everyone tapping their feet along.

The fashion show witnessed teams from Ranchi Women's College, St Xavier's College, Marwari College, Jharkhand Rai University and Amity University take to the ramp.

But it was certainly not all fun and no seriousness.

The day began with a guest lecture on "Giver can't be taker"-an awareness event that aimed to spread awareness on the benefits of blood donation and motivated people to donate blood at the camp held on the NIFFT campus on Sunday.

The technical events of the day started with Chain Reaction-an event where contestants had to pile up wood blocks continuously until they collapsed.

In Robo war one bot had to defend itself against another by using its strength while in Wild Race bots had to cross obstacles.

After an event-filled day, curtains came down with Dual Vibes band entertaining the campus crowd during the EDM evening performance.

"With enthusiastic participants and well-choreographed programmes, the events of Day 2 were simply awesome," said a manufacturing engineering student of NIFFT Sanatan Jha, adding the day also provided them with ideas about beginning a start-up.