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INNOVESHI ‘08 -
Astha’s Innovation Week (From March 28th to April 1st)
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I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished,
not the world in which it started.
Ray Kurzweil
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| Explore ...Express ...Emerge...Empower...Emancipate |
The mega event of ASTHA this year is an attempt to inculcate the spirit of socially responsible innovations. We shall concentrate on the broader spectrum of innovation that will include latest technological developments, scientific updates and much more. The primary goal of this event will be to instill a sense of innovation in our students. At the end of this event, students working for Innoveshi and the large mass of audience should start thinking beyond their books and rediscover their natural curiosity by asking more questions. We shall try and set a trend in Amrita where students will be eager to implement their thoughts and concepts along the lines of science and technology for the betterment of life on earth.
INNOVESHI 2008 Photo Gallery
I. EVENTS :
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Invited talks
Will consist of invited speakers both from inside and outside the university from various fields.
Infotainment
We will have presentations on the advancements made in various fields each of not more than 5-10 minutes.
Nakshatra - Amrita Stars
The event “Nakshatra” is organized to bring the outstanding students to the entire fraternity of the campus. This event is aimed out honoring the students as well as to create a platform to interact with the students This time we will be felicitating the Imagineers of our university comprising of 4 teams:
• The SAE team that won prize for their suitcase car, for the southern region.
• The Amritapuri campus ‘Code for Freedom’ All India contest winners organized by Sun Microsystems.
• The two teams from Amrita University who reached the top 5 of IBM Great Mind Challenge.
• Mr. Anoop Nambiar and team who won the best project award from National Instruments.
Workshops
We will be conducting 4 small workshops on 30th of March in addition to the current workshop on ‘Recreational Electronics’. Some of the tentative topics are:
• Ethical hacking
• Best out of waste
These workshops will be short just to give the students an insight into the various areas.
Exhibition
It will consist of working models, charts, Youth Red Cross camp for BP and blood group testing, Go-Green Café and a book exhibition. The exhibition will be the main attraction of Innovation week. |
II. COMPETITIONS :
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Best Innovators Award
Here students are encouraged to think and present their ideas using simple concepts from any field. Top ten finalists will present their paper in Amriteshwari Hall. And the best innovator wins the prize. (Proposed prize worth: Rs 1001)
ASTHA Grand Challenge
Here students are encouraged to make useful low-cost working models using simple concepts for the betterment of society. All the models will be put for exhibition during which the best will be judged. (Proposed prize worth: Rs 4001)
Mastermind
A super-quizzing program for the quiz hungry covering various areas in science and technology. (Proposed prize worth: Rs 3001)
Which is the best invention ever, and why?
The participants will explain their own perception of what they think is the best invention ever made, and why they think so, in the most convincing way. The best five entries will be showcased in the exhibition. (1st Prize worth: Rs 1001). |
III. DAILY SCHEDULE :
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28-03-2008 (Friday):
Sudhamani Hall: Exhibition from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
Inauguration from 10.00 am to 10.30 am
Amriteshwari Hall: No programme
29-03-2008 (Saturday):
Sudhamani Hall: Exhibition from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
Amriteshwari Hall:
Inauguration : 9.30 am to 10.30 am
Talk 1 : 10.30 am to 11.30 am
Presentation 1 : 11.30 am to 11.40 am
Talk 2 : 11.40 am to 12.40 pm
Presentation 2 : 1.40 pm to 1.50 pm
Talk 3 : 1.50 pm to 2.50 pm
Ppt 3 & 4 : 2.50 pm to 3.10 pm
Best Innovator : 3.10 pm to 4.00 pm
Ppt 5 : 4.00 pm to 4.10 pm
QUIZ : 4.30 pm to 7.00 pm
30-03-2008 (Sunday):
Sudhamani Hall: Workshops 10.00pm to 5.00pm
31-03-2008 (Monday):
Sudhamani Hall: Exhibition from 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Amriteshwari Hall:
Nakshatra : 5.15 pm to 7.00 pm
01-04-2008 (Tuesday):
Sudhamani Hall: No programme
Amriteshwari Hall:
Prize Distribution
Vote of Thanks for Innoveshi
Movie/Documentary Screening |
CONTACT :
Kothai Priyadarshini
Event Coordinator
E-mail: astha@ettimadai.amrita.edu |
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A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.
Ray Kurzweil
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
Sergey Brin.
Always remember that someone, somewhere is making a product that will make your product obsolete.
Georges Doriot
Just as energy is the basis of life itself, and ideas the source of innovation, so is innovation the vital spark of all human change, improvement and progress”
Ted Levitt
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
Harold Wilson
Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know. Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
George Knelle
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties
Erich Fromm
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
Albert von Szent-Gyorgy
To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert Einstein
Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
Carl Jung
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns."
Edward de Bono
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
James Russell Lowell
The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen.
Carl Ally
We shall not cease from exploration, and at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
T. S. Eliot
Innovation— any new idea—by definition will not be accepted at first. It takes repeated attempts, endless demonstrations, monotonous rehearsals before innovation can be accepted and internalized by an organization. This requires courageous patience.
Warren Bennis
The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.
Anthony Jay
You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways
M. Minsky
When you are completely absorbed or caught up in something, you become oblivious to things around you, or to the passage of time. It is this absorption in what you are doing that frees your unconscious and releases your creative imagination.
Dr. Rollo May
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