Full Throttle Grand Prix
Speed. The ultimate adrenaline-pumping fantasy. What possibly can be more nerve-wracking than a photofinish on a racing track? Apogee aims at recreating just that. Full Throttle Grand Prix, a remote-controlled car
racing event, is a chance to show off your knowledge of the engineering behind remote controlled cars and
simulate the ultimate driving experience. Control your self-built RC cars on a race track and race yourself to
victory. Seems easy, right? Cut-throat competition awaits anyone who participates and at the end of the day, it
is the quality of the car and the driver’s capability which decides the winner. So, gear up!
STOCK MARKET
SIMULATION
Stock Market Simulation, a collaboration
between the Economics and Finance
Association and ACM, provides the participant
a chance to test their financial acumen and
improve on it. It is one event which allows
students to step into the shoes of their dads,
and make sense of those fluctuating numbers,
which probably made no sense in our
childhood.
DHITI
India is a land of skilled and highly intelligent
engineers. Sadly, the talent of these engineers
fail to reach the places where it is most needed
– the villages. ‘Dhiti’ aims at providing
students a platform to search ground-breaking
yet feasible and economically viable solutions
for solving the problems faced at the
grassroots level in India. With an illustrious
panel of judges, Dhiti this year promises to be
a huge success.
KERNEL EVENTS
ROBOTS AT WAR
In 1942, Isaac Asimov postulated the three laws of
robotics
First law
A robot may not injure a human being or, through
inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second Law
A robot must obey any orders given to it by human
beings, except where such orders would conflict
with the First Law.
Third Law
A robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with the First or
Second Law.
Apogee 2014 adds a slight modification to this ruleA robot should protect its own existence above all –
to hell with everything else! Witness the robots battle
it out at ‘Robots at War’, fighting to establish
supremacy and most importantly, survive!
ISTRIKE
Think you have marvellous road sense? Try teaching
that to a robot then! This Apogee you get a chance to
build a robot capable of moving on the road, avoiding
obstacles and following traffic signals paved along the
way to reach its destination. iStrike, an event in which
there is no room for error. One mistake, and you are
out! With a number of interesting changes in the
format from last year, iStrike is expected to draw a
huge amount of participation.
INTERNATIONAL CODING LEAGUE
Think you are a master of competitive
coding? You have a very good chance of
reconsidering this! The Assosciation of
Computing Machinery, BITS Pilani is
organising the International Coding League,
a computer programming competition based
on the pattern of ACM-ICPC. Code your
way up the ladder to claim the holy grail of
coding supremacy. Beware, cut-throat
competition awaits you!