Past Events-
According to the famous saying of mrs. Kirthiga reddy, head, facebook india "i strongly believe that the first step and the most important tool towards women empowerment is education. The right education will ensure that women are more competent and confident in taking up bigger challenges and raising the bar in any field". To promote women in engineering, acm student chapter, department of computer science and engineering organized a 24-hour national level hackathon in collaboration with acm-w and oracle academy on 2nd -3rd oct, 2017 for girl students.
3rd of october marked the end of the hackathon. This journey of the hackathon started with the participation of 308 enthusiastic and tech-savvy teams from all over india with the theme of digital india. A team of 52 highly professional members from acm india, chitkara university, and oracle academy was formed to review the ideas and select the best 20 teams out of it. The selected 20 teams were then promoted to the next round which was held on 9th september 2017. After in-depth discussions with all the 20 teams, 10 teams were filtered were hence promoted to the final round. The top 10 teams and one wild card entry accompanied by their respective mentors were invited to chitkara university on 2nd october 2017 and were given 24 hours to successfully run their application and showcase their idea to the judging panel. Dr. Madhu chitkra, honorable vice-chancellor of chitkara university also addressed the students and gave prizes to the top three winners. Top three teams got 24000/, 15000/ and 12000/ respectively as a prize money and were given chitkara university goodies.
Acm student chapter, chitkara university, in collaboration with acm india and cspathshala, organized a one-day workshop on the topic "bringing computational thinking to school" , on 15 july, 2017 at chitkara international school, sector-25,chandigarh. The main goal of this workshop was to impart pedagogical as well as content training to teachers. Interacting with 165 delegates in the workshop was ms. Sonia garcha, cspathshala volunteer, program associate - csr, development support team along-with guest speaker mr. Madhavan mukund, president of acm india and professor and dean of studies, chennai mathematical institute, chennai. This workshop imparted training to the teachers on problem solving and computational thinking, which enabled them to learn more about topics such as, decomposition, patterns, abstraction, algorithms, analysis and programming with day to day examples. Also, teachers were made familiar with the cspathshala training aids, and were also engaged in interesting activities on the above mentioned topics.
Chitkara acm student chapter organized an industrial visit to infosys chandigarh. 14 members of acm chitkara visited the site. The event started with the presentation given by mr. Kanwarpreet singh, who discussed software testing skills. Afterwards, a very interactive q&a session was held regarding the new trends in industries and new fields in technology. At last, the lunch was followed by the guided tour of the company.
Acm student chapter chitkara university organized an event aarda in which second year students of be cse displayed their integrated projects in different categories. The event started with the arrival of highly reputed externals from various domains ranging from academicians to corporate world. Venueswere embellished with posterpresentations. The students showcased theirprojects. The evaluations of students were highly appreciated by the examiners. The event reached its zenith with the involvement of students from sections of cse 2nd year (e to h). The students received accolades with eminent award, star award and consolation prize.
Acm student chapter, chitkara university organized a dsp (distinguished speaker program) on the topic "what does engineering mean to a student ?" on 15th march, 2017 . The session witnessed a turnaround of about 200 participants, comprising of students from cse and m.tech department and faculty members from the research & cse department.
Acm student chapter ,chitkara university in collaboration with ccet organized the event "codathon" on 23rd march,2017 . Approximately 33teams (each team consisting minimal of 1 member to utmost of 4 members) participated in the event. It was a coding competition where participants Were challenged to adduce their coding skills.the contest was on platform Named "hackerearth". The participants were given freedom to choose any Coding language. There were total of 18 brittle questions which were to be Justified in the given time period of 2 hours. The contest was crunchy and students proved their coding skills with great zeal.
Acm student chapter (department of computer science and engineering) has invited mr. Chandra shekhar (ceo of acm india) for a visit to our campus (chitkara university punjab) on 1st april, 2017. During the campus visit, he attended a meeting with dr. Archana matri, dr. Rajnesh sharma and ms. Meenu khurana. During the meeting, he discussed various acm india events and also suggested few of them to be conducted by chitkara university. Cs-pathshala, summer school workshop, acm-w and esp were the pioneer event to be hosted by chitkara university.
Acm student chapter chitkara university organized an event technovation in which third year students of be cse displayed their integrated projects in different categories. The event started with the arrival of highly reputed externals from various domains ranging from academicians to corporate world. Venues were embellished with poster presentations. The students showcased their projects. The evaluations of students were highly appreciated by the examiners.