Nodal officers Orientation Camp dated 29/11/16 & 30/11/16 held at Sahrdaya Engineering College. Vishal, the Technical Officer with Nodal Officers Team handled their session with fruitful manner. They made their session extraordinary by sharing their experiences. Sessions convinced us the importance of Startup echo system in the campus.
Pre FAB Academy Programme organized by Fab Academy held from 01st Dec to 22nd Dec 2016 at Technopark, Trivandrum. The Pre Academy is a short crash course under designed to fill knowledge gaps and aimed to prepare students and labs to succeed and improve their experience during Fab Academy. Mr. Jinesh K.J, Asst. Professor & IEDC faculty member, Dept. of ECE attended the Training program.
Agora 16 was a hackathon that was conducted by the mechanical engineering department in association with the SAEINDIA collegiate club and the IEDC club of college. The competition saw a total of 29 teams participating with a total of around 130 students.
The introductory session was handled by Prof. Joshy Joseph (Director, Startup & Placement ) and Mr Nirmal George ( Co-Founder Build next) and after the introductory session, the students were asked to assemble in the section 415 hall for the competition. The activities of IEDC in the current academic year(2016-17) was been officially inaugurated by Mr Nirmal George ( Co-Founder Build next), The Chief Guest.
The theme for the hackathon was “Geriatric Care & Management” and they were asked to make prototypes on the theme by the end of the programme. A session on marketing and finance management was also taken by Fr. Roy Joseph Vadakkan (Asst. Manager Academics) on the same day.
After an intense first day, we saw evaluation by senior faculty on the second day when the model was in the forming stage and with those valuable inputs, majority of the teams were able to successfully make prototypes.
Final evaluation of the competition was done by senior faculty of various departments and the results were announced and prize money of 5k was given to the first place for the project titled “Tongue Controlled Wheel Chair” and 2.5k was given to the second place for the project titled “Smart Shoe with Obstacle Detection” respectively. The prizes were awarded by Fr. Joju Chiriankandath, Asst. Manager of our College.
In that Summit our college recognised as one of the “Best Performing College” by the Kerala Startup Mission. One of our Student Co-ordinator of IEDC, Robin Wilson received the memento from the Chief Guest.
Manasa & her friends won the Photo Contest prize as a part of KSUM Summit.
IEDC club of Jyothi engineering college conducted a two day workshop named Startup i3, associated with Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) and Openfuel.org at 21/12/2016, 22/12/2016. There were 12 groups from different colleges all over kerala, with 5 members each. This event was hosted by Mohammed Rammes and Rohit Radhakrishnan, two eminent personalities from the kerala startup mission and open fuel Respectively. Program was inagruated by Principal Dr. K K Babu.
First session was handled by Mr Rohit Radhakrishnan with a presentation, Idea creation was the main topic that he was emphasizing. The session was very interactive and brainstorming. Then each team was asked to create an idea based on which they were to develop a prototype for the day. First day ended at 9 Pm, food and accomodation was provided for the students.
The next day each group transformed the idea into a prototype. After this a session about finance and marketing was provided by Mohamed Rammes to make the idea worthful. After lunch break every team was ready with their prototype and presentation. Based on each teams presentation a ranking was done, to find the best team with best idea. The judging panel included Prof C K Raju From CSE Department, Mohammed Rammes, Rohit Radhakrishnan and Prof Varughese Job K From ME Department.
The team Abhiraj T R, Kiran P M, Naveen K N And Sarath S from Govt. Polytechnic college,Palakkad won the First prize. The team from Sahrdaya Engineering College won second prize and third prize was for Jyothi Engineering College Team. Program ended with prize distribution and cake cutting related to the christmas.
Kerala’s Largest Summit for aspiring Student Entrepreneurs happened to held on 23/08/16 at Girideepam Convention Centre, Trivandrum. The summit was scheduled with two sets of panel discussions, on the first half were trying to bring in two levels of entrepreneurs, one who had succeeded from Kerala and established their business across the globe and the young generation entrepreneurs who were building their enterprise globally. The whole summit was categorised into Business Networking, Idea Pitching, Panel Discussion, Learning Hubs and Expert Speakers Talk. The 10 students and Nodal Officer were attended for this Summit.
The event was conducted on 09/09/15. The program aims at selling capability of the students. The event was on the same day of the Inauguration of EDC (2015-16) and an invited talk was given by Mr. Jijo Sunny, the Entrepreneur & the Founder of two companies AdIndigo, Minimalister Network LLP.
Young Entrepreneurs Summit (YES) is a flagship initiative aimed at installing entrepreneurship in the minds of students and youth of Kerala. This novel venture by Government of Kerala with the support of Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) and Industries Department, aims to establish Gods’ Own Country as a vibrant Entrepreneurial State. Highlighting the existing facilities and supporting services available to prospective young entrepreneurs to realize their business dreams, the event will showcase the combined initiatives of agencies like KSIDC, Kerala Financial Corporation (KFC), TBI, Technopark, Infopark, and KINFRA in creating a holistic environment beneficial for young entrepreneurs. YES is one of the navaratna programmes taken under the Government of Kerala's Mission 676 programme. The Government have great expectations from YES as it is a step towards emerging from Kerala with in Kerala. Encouraging the possibilities of entrepreneurial developments, KSIDC has taken the initiative to spearhead this programme by conducting Young Entrepreneurs Summit (YES) on September 12th which is being celebrated as "Kerala Entrepreneurship Day".
4. Mr. Razil Ahmed F A - S7, ECE.
Team: Anjana K. P., Blessy babu, Disni Jose M., Olivia Nelson, Prasobh K. P. Mentor: Shri. Jinesh K. J.
Judging Committee recommended the IEEE Sponsored prizes for the best project that qualifies “Advancing Technology for Humanity”.
Team: Fathima Irfana T. K., Brolin Tency, Francy Johnson, Preethi P. J., Antony Jashil P. Mentor: Shri. Akhil A. Balakrishnan.
International Women Hackathon 2018 is an online Hackathon event to celebrate and promote women developers across the globe. With that spirit, invite all women developers and hackathon enthusiasts across the globe to participate in an interesting and engaging hackathon. Jyothi Engineering S6 CSE Student Team (Catherine Anto, Asna Nesry, Bini Maria B) won Second Prize in International Women’s Hackathon 2018 Contest organized by HackerEarth and Schlumberger worth 1Lakh rupees.
Team from Our College (Jyothi Engineering College) Secured First Prize in Malayala Manorama - IBS Yuva Mastermind Season 8 Grand Finale 2018 held at Younis Convention Centre, Aashraamam, Kollam. Project : A Low Cost Braille Printer Using a Scrap Dot Matrix Printer guided by Mr. Jinesh K.J, Asst. Professor, ECE. Group Members: Bernard Bobban, Palatty Jesvin Joseph, Pranav V, Varadha, Sruthy Chandran.
The IBeTo Prelims was held at Kerala Startup Mission, Kalamasseri, Kochi so as to attain a working prototype based on the problem statements. These prototypes can further be iterated and be launched into the market. In addition to the prize money, the top 3 contestants got direct entry into the IBeTo finals which guaranteed them proper mentorship and guidance from the experts in their field. Our student team won the contest & entered into IBeTo Hackathon Finals.
The students participated in the finals at Government Model Engineering College,Thrikkakara as a kick start to the EXCEL 2k17.Our student team developed ‘Ojus :Smart guidance system for the blind’ to which they attained the second prize .
Our student team consists of Vishnu K S5CSEB, Surya R S5CSE B, Sophy Shaju S5 ECE, Noel Vincent S5CSEB.