Visit to
BITS Pilani
(25th – 29th March 2015)
By
Second Year Students
Department of Information Technology
VPCOE, Baramati
REPORT
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajsthan organized
APOGEE-2015 technical event during 25th to 29th March 2015. To attend the
event we left from Baramati on 23rd March and reached Pilani on 24th March in the
evening. We got temporary accommodation and settled down.
The details are as follows.
Registration and Inauguration
DAY 1
Registration process for the event started at 11.00 AM in the morning. We all
Registered for the APOGEE Event and Web Development Workshop. The
details of the 5-Day Event schedule and rules are narrated by the volunteers.
Visit to Birla Science Museum
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We visited Birla Science Museum from 3.00 to 5.00PM. It gave students a great
coverage in the area of science and environment. They have simulated different
basic concepts in Science with excellent models.
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Inauguration
We attended Inauguration at 6.00 PM. Inauguration included welcome song and
lamp lightening followed by video presentation of the various events.
9.30PM to 10.30 PM: Sky watching using telescope. The campus itself is a unique
historical telescope inbuilt. This brought us little knowledge about the
astronomy.
Highlights: Birla Museum and the Campus.
Web Development Workshop
DAY 2
10.00AM, Session 1, Day 1
Resource Person: Shubham Gupta
Web Development Theory Session: In this Session, Shubham Gupta introduced
various tools like DreamViewer, FileZilla, Wamp Server and Photoshop. It was
more of an interactive session to learn the various tools that he introduced.
2.00PM, Session 2, Day1
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In this Session, there were practical sessions in designing sample Web Pages. He
used Adobe Photoshop to design the web pages which was new experience. We
also learnt about linking the designed Web pages to the local server.
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7.00 PM, Expert Talk
1. Shoma Choudary, Former managing Editor Tehalka
Tehelka is an Indian News Magazine known for its investigative
journalism and sting operations in its beginning years. Shoma Choudary
made all of us aware about the issues of Gujarat riot, West End and the
problems faced by many fake victims.
2. Mr. Divya Narendra, Founder and CEO of SUMZERO.
DAY 3
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He is an undergraduate in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.
He was in the team of Harvard Connect Project which is now known as a
Facebook. He consistently emphasized on the importance of forming contacts
in universities to raise money and work on business idea. He told the
audience the importance of delving deep into entrepreneur ideas.
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Web Development Workshop
10.00AM, Session 3, Day 2
On the previous day we learnt how to design the prototype of website using the
tools. We got to learn how to use the open source servers and created sample free
blogs. This session was more of designing the ideas to come up with small
website.
02.00PM, Session 4, Day2
This session was quite interesting in a way of implementing the designed ideas.
Our team is divided into 3 teams to make 3 different websites. This was the
outcome of what we learnt in the previous 3 sessions. All the students enjoyed
making their first website.
All the sessions were concluded followed by Certificate distribution to all the
participants.
7.00 PM, Expert Talk
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Dr. Walter Lewin, Former Director MIT Media Labs
This was the talk we all were waiting for to hear someone from MIT. He has a
different view about developing projects. He demonstrated new tool that he
invented. The tool did not look normal to us. It was different in the way it has
features. By combining some various features we could develop own Paint like
application.
Workshop on Hacking
DAY 4
Resource Person: Mr. Pushkar Satge
The students who were interested in doing Workshop on Hacking participated in
it. The workshop contained usage of hacking tools to hack the network.
Demonstration of Metasploit tools on Back Track Open Source.
3.00PM to 5 PM: We attended the coding competition CodeStorm. CodeStorm is
an on-campus event in which participants need to write code for a given set of
problems. The event mainly focused on the ability of the participants to code
problems as quick as they can.
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7.00PM to 8.30 PM
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Expert Talk by Dr. Bindeshwar Patak, Founder of Sulabh Sanitation and Social
Reform Movement
The talk was on Toilets for all. He made the audience to think about the issues of
sanitation and the problems faced by many Indians. He gave some statistics
about Indian sanitation and it was shocking. He also gave some statistics about
his work in the field of sanitation through the name Sulabh Sanitation.
DAY 5
Events Visited: We visited various events and exhibitions ongoing in the
campus. These included Photography, Art Gallery, Music Collection, Robots at
War (RAW), Battle of Waterloo and Birla Temple.
We left the Campus for Delhi on 29th March.
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We started journey from Delhi on 30th March 2015 at 3.00 PM and reached
VPCOE campus on 1st April, 2015 at 5.00 PM.
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