Fests
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BITS Open Sports Meet kicks off the fest season every September. Be it athletics; outdoor sports like volleyball, hockey, football and cricket, indoor games like badminton, basket- INTERFACE ball, squash, table tennis, carrom and chess or even swimming, bodybuilding, power lifting, box-cricket, remote controlled racing, and puzzle solving- we have them all. Innova- The annual management fest. Organized by the Department of Management in February tive ones include Human Pacman, Anti Chess, Crac-o-Dial and Bazinga. over a course of three days, it encourages students to share ideas about running dynamic Indian industries. Popular events include ones on marketing plans, budget, investment, OASIS stocks, and case studies, with prizes worth Rs 5 lakhs. Notable guest lectures and media conferences have been graced by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Derek O’ Brien, Rajesh Pilot, India’s largest cultural fest after Mood Indigo, the campus is never more vibrant. Take Neelesh Mishra and a multitude of Indian corporate executives. This fest provides an inpart in any of the various musical genres on offer. Nowhere else will you be forgiven for sight into management to MBA aspirants in an engineering institute. being quite the drama queen. Strut your stuff on the ramp for FashP. Enamour the outstation crowds with your dances both on and off stage. Let the array of quizzes bring out APOGEE your smart side. Or just show the world your artistic talent. Debate your way through, find treasure, take part in multiple online events. Who knows, you could be the next Mr/ Miss A Professional’s Oriented Gathering of Educational Experience. Our annual technical Oasis! This fest has witnessed professional shows by the likes of Shankar Mahadevan, festival, held in March. Involve yourself in one or more projects, belonging to any of the Vishal Shekhar, Vir Das, Ayushmann Khurrana, UK band Good Shoes, Thermal and a 15 expansive categories. Shun the lawns and take refuge in robotics, computing, and elecQuarter, Motherjane, Bhayanak Maut and many more. The theme for this year’s Oasis is tronics workshops. You can also make it big in paper presentations, competing against “The Elements”. those from the IITs and NITs. A web of quizzes tests your theoretical as well as practical knowledge. RoboWars, Remote Controlled Car Racing, Battle at Waterloo, Junkyard Q. E. D. Wars, Full Throttle Grand Prix, Google Social Hackathon, Track-o-mania and loads of other events are highly looked forward to. In addition, there are some finance events inLet out your aggressive debating instincts with our annual national debating tournament, volving stocks and wealth management. Most significant is the Think Again Conclave. held along with BITSMUN. Also, each team is accompanied by adjudicators, who are These guest lectures are extremely popular for everyone on campus, be it your average judged separately by a national level Adjudication Core. The variety of topics will keep you outstation participant or your favourite professor. asking for more.
Fests are a great source of relaxation, providing much needed respite from the hectic academic calendar. Each is accompanied by amazing performances by the Music Club, Dance BITS Model United Nations. Held in February over three days, each country is represent- Club and Mime Club. Moreover, Subway, Hyd n Seekh, CCD and other food stalls make ed by a delegate and all of them together solve the issue at hand. The test of a delegate lies it a palatable experience. Oh, and 2014 is also the 50th anniversary of our college. Be on in his debating powers, coupled with analytical and communication skills. All this while, he the lookout for festivities throughout the year, as well as bigger and better festivals. must ensure he follows the decorum of the UN, diplomatically getting his country’s poliBITSMUN
cies approved. This interesting simulation is worth watching, to say the least. The sessions consist of individual speeches, debates, moderated caucuses, unmoderated discussions and preparing draft resolutions. Each committee (GOT was one of them last time) has a presiding Chair, while the International Press goes about its job discreetly. Look out for spicy chit- passing amongst participants, and prizes to be won.
Clubs and Departments
Placed in the middle of nowhere, Pilani offers few niceties when it comes to entertainment. Concerts, movies, malls, posh fast food joints and other such 21st century contraptions of recreation are for engineers being moulded to shape in decent towns, not for engineers doomed to survive at a place around 200 kilometres from the nearest mall or multiplex. So how have BITSians survived for half a century? The answer lies in that profound quote about life giving you lemons and you making lemonade. BITSians have developed and sustained over the years a very healthy tradition of co-curricular activities employing the various clubs and departments as their tools. The college plays host to three fests of national repute. The USP of the fests has always been the elegant manner in which the student community has conducted the fests with minimal involvement of the institution. This in turn is made possible by the various departments that work round the year with the sole purpose of ensuring impeccable organisation of the fests. Most of the departments require no pre-requisites barring a few like DVM (Department of Visual Media). Departments interact with freshers multiple times and then shortlist recruits based upon their own discretion and the extent to which their seniors take a liking to the juniors. The bunch of people grouped in a department often become the best hangout groups on campus, maybe due to the comrade ship arising out of the hectic yet fun-filled work they do. Clubs are different establishments altogether. They have been floated by the students to pursue hobbies like music, dance, poetry and even journalism. Despite being prospective Evaluation: engineers and future geeky B-School nerds BITSians do follow their passions with all the Coursera 2/5 perseverance they can muster. Most clubs are accorded due esteem by the student fraternity due to the high levels of EdX 5/5 professionalism they pursue their hobbies with. Almost all clubs conduct various recruitment tests and select students who merit selection riding their capabilities in their self-anointed hobbies. The Music Club, Dance Club, Mime Club all conduct auditions which efficiently screen new members for the clubs. The English Press Club and the Hindi Press Club too conduct recruitment tests. Even geeky engineers find a lot to keep themselves engaged thanks to the BAJA, FSAE teams and the Radio Control (RC) Club. Often engineers aspire to become social entrepreneurs in a bid to alleviate the ills gripping the nation. If social service is your thing then you will find hearty company in NSS and Nirmaan. Both the organisations have a very healthy tradition of dedicated social service; their efficiency and professionalism coupled with their strong moral fibre are potent enough to give the best NGOs a run for their money. spend time post fulfilment of academic commitments and on top of it excelling to a certain unbelievable level in whatever they choose to do. They just go from strength to strength learning from the company of their club and department comrades. The vibrant extracurricular facilities available to hone all talents ranging from quizzing to dancing and from to debating to acting is what sets a BITSian apart in the rat race that engineers are put through today.
Recruitments and Orientations
Club/Event
Dance Club Debating Society
Date, Time, and Venue
August 15 August 11 - LTC - 10 AM
Contact Numbers
7891184884 9468707567 8003833715 9549683007
English Drama Club August 10 - SAC - 5:30 PM ELAS Freshers’ Challenge August 13 - 5102 - 5 PM
English Press Club August 12 - 3115 - 5:15 PM 8290286695 FSAE (Orientation) Gurukul Hindi Press Club August 14 - 5102 - 6 PM August 11 - SAC-6 - 11 AM August 12 - SAC - 5 PM 9468642989 8107934038 7891400216 7891987224 8058401456 9928807923
Informalz Freshers’ August 15 - Sky - 4 PM Treasure Hunt Mime Club Music Club Ragamalika August 13 - 5:30 PM August 11 - 2158 - 11 AM August 10 - SAC-8
Dance-2:30pm, Music-4:30pm
If you possess a hobby and a determination to excel in whatever passions you nurture, you will always find the company and the resources on campus to stoke whatever embers you hold within. BITSians have an irksome habit of finding extremely productive tools to