Campus Notes

HMV IIC virtual session

Jalandhar: Members of Innovation Council, HMV, attended the virtual live session of the AIM-AICTE Collaboration for ATLs and IICs under Principal Dr Ajay Sareen. The session was organised on the occasion of 130th birth anniversary of Dr BR Ambedkar. The session began with a welcome note from R Ramanan, Mission Director, ATL Innovation Mission. He gave his greetings and wishes for the Ambedkar Jayanti and ATL Community Day. Dr Anil, chairman, All India Council for Technical Education, gave a comprehensive view of the outcomes of the collaboration and the significance of the IIC initiative giving practical suggestions. He briefed about the implications of linkages between institutions and National Education policy. The motive of the organisation is to take research to the next level. He emphasised on the appreciation of the past and moving towards innovation. Dr Abhay Jere, Chief Innovation Officer, Ministry of Education, Government of India, stressed on the need of a systematic programme, inclusive of all the things related to innovation.

Workshop on Storyboarding

GNA University organised a two-day workshop on storyboarding and cartooning. Sanjay Kumar, the renowned animator, cartoonist and illustrator, was the resource person for the workshop. The faculty of animation conducted the workshop with the sole objective to teach the multiple nuances of storyboarding and cartooning. Participants from the faculty of animations presented with the topics like the latest knowledge obtainable to the artists and how to make the most use of it. During the workshop, Sanjay also shared his knowledge about 2D cartooning, tricks and techniques on creating digital storyboard. He also stated the use of expression and character design in 2D. The students were educated on the topics like art of story creation, cartooning and correcting the color in an image. He enlightened students about the latest trends and job opportunities in the multimedia sector. The session concluded with an interactive session where the students raised their queries pertaining to the profession. Baljit Singh, the HoD, concluded the two-day workshop with a vote of thanks. S Gurdeep Singh Sihra, Pro-Chancellor appreciated the efforts of the team for putting across the best happening in their field.

E-fest organised at DAVIET

DAVIET organised E-FEST.The main motive behind organising this festival was to provide a platform to the students to express their views through various performances. The main items of this festival were elocution, essay writing, indoor photography, dance, sketching, digital poster-making, music competition, turban tying, gidda and bhangra, beat busters, and short video, etc. With more than 20 events were organised during the event.Over 700 participants registered across the nation and showed their talent.The E-fest is a national-level platform and anyone from the age of 5 to 25 could participate. Principal Dr Manoj Kumar congratulated the students for giving marvellous performances and appreciated them for participating in the events. In beat busters: Girish from RC College, Bangalore, got got the 1st position. In Elocution, Sumeira Bhatti from St. Joseph”s High School, Pune and Ruchika Dhuria from DAVIET bagged the Ist position. In essay writing: Deepti Ahuja from DAV Public School Ludhiana got the Ist position.In Bhangra, Yudhveer Singh from Chandigarh got the first position. Genus Preet in poem recitation and Divyan Joshi in rapping from DAVIET got the Ist positions. In short video, Pearl Kakaria from Apeejay School and Diljit Kaur from Khalsa College, Amritsar bageed positions.TNS