Other winners will receive scholarships for studying “Applied Economics” course at the Hedge School of Applied Economics.

The following content will be considered for the competition

• News From campus
• Event reports (with photos/videos)
• Interviews of campus celebrities/faculties
• New relevant to the campus (From the locality)
• Articles about the campus

BarCamp Kerala 8 is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010 BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Venue

BCK 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. So far we have 55 attendees.

Sessions

So far we have 5 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions , you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

Ten Top Directors of Malayalam Movie Industry join hands together for a new movie Kerala cafe which is setting a new milestone in the history of malayalam movie industry. Innovative ideas always comes from campuses. These Directors are also the product of 10 different campus in kerala. They designed a cool poster in which they are requesting students to analyze this movie.

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Campus Blogs are the platform for sharing your hidden talents. Remember our caption ” Discovering Talents Every day”. So Come up with your creative ideas like Short Films, Stories, Cartoons animations or anything like that. Dont ignore any piece of creative talent in our campus, share it to others..

In the new scenario, where even today the growth rate of the IT sector Is the highest amongst different sectors, the need for quality, certified and productive employees is the highest and they would be able get into the fastest growing sector in the economy. It has however become more stringent in its recruitment of new employees though it’s only the IT sector that’s still recruiting. It is in this scenario that NITAT and its scorecard becomes more relevant and a tool for students to get employment and become ready for the industry that has a specific requirement.

NITAT will help students to do the following:

Ø Check their Industry readiness

Ø Get an invitation to NITAT Placement Fair 2009

Ø Avail special vouchers from technology majors

1. In summary when companies across the world are recruiting only the best. Because no matter what the economic scenario, trained IT professionals will always have immense opportunities. NITAT not only tells the students where they stand amongst the rest, but also gauges their potential areas of expertise and identifies where their strengths lie.

The test will be held on 18^th of January at an independent venue in Kottayam, the last date for application is the 16^th of January. We request you kindly motivate and ask all your students to attempt this test and make themselves ready for employment. The test is to be held on one single day across the country and we expect more than 1,00,000 students attempting the same.

We would also request you to kindly allow us to take presentation in your college to your students to give a clear understanding about the program on a date which is convenient to you.

Your immediate action would be highly appreciated.

For details contact Mr.Jibu T Thomas

Mob no.   9846097635

The competition will be on the track for the next six months. For More Details Contact Your Campus Blogging Club Members. So why Waiting?? Start Blogging………………

Technopark is organizing an Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp for ‘Promoting Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship‘ in the campuses of Academic Institutions across Central Kerala at Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST),Tiruvalla on 12^th Jan, 2009. The programme is jointly organized by Technopark. Technopark TBI, Technopark TePP Outreach Centre (TUC), Mar Athanasios College for Advanced Studies (MACFAST) Tiruvalla, Technofirst , STED ,Amal Jyothi College of Engineering and National Centre for Innovation,Incubation, & Entrepreneurship (NCIIE) . This workshop is the third follow up program of Technopreneur 2008, a groundbreaking workshop series launched on the eve of ISBA2008 Conference, which was successfully conducted by Technopark from Jan 30^th to Feb 2^nd, which was a grand success. ISBA is the Indian STEPs (Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Parks) and Business Incubation Association. The Events saw the convergence of a large number of distinguished personalities to Technopark, Trivandrum, from within the country as well as from outside, including delegates from the different arms of the World Bank like infoDev and the Asian Association of Business Incubators (AABI). The target audience includes prospective Innovators, Faculty members and Students of Engineering Colleges in Central Kerala comprising of the Districts Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam and Idukki.

The major objective is to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship in campuses of Academic Institutions and Rural Kerala. Another objective is to exploit and effectively convert the skills and expertise within the institutes to create entrepreneurial ventures.

The event is aimed at emphasising the need to support genuine entrepreneurs and Innovators from Rural Kerala to transform their ideas into marketable products and to incubate them in the Technology Business Incubator and thereby drive the economic growth of the country to newer heights.

There will be eminent speakers from both industry and academics who will share their experience on Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship with the participants. The event is programmed to provide awareness to the young innovators on various aspects like preparing Business plans, getting financial support in the form of Grants etc.

Event: INSPIRE 2008 (http://www.acesinspire.com)

Organised By: Division of Computer Science, Cochin University of Science & Technology(CUSAT) , Cochin

Key Dates: October 3-5, 2008

Inspire is the annual technical extravaganza organized by the Division of Computer Science, CUSAT. The rhapsody involves emphatic participation from a myriad of students within and outside the realms of CUSAT.

The various event categories include:

Technical(Robotics, Programming),

Online events,

Quiz Events,

Managerial,

Presentation,

Fun & Creative events( Gaming, Video Editing) and more.

The guest lectures series includes renowned Cyber Security expert Manu Zacharia on Ethical Hacking & Information Security, Mani Karthik on Blogging and many other exciting and informative sessions. Total Prize money over Rs 1.6 Lakhs.

To get latest updates register online and for more details visit the homepage !

Contact:
Jobin Raj
CORE Member
INSPIRE 08
+91-+91-9895475527

The Great Mind challenge promotes students from engineering colleges from across India in their endeavor to develop solutions, for real-time problems and scenarios using IBM open source software. It is aimed to encourage students who aspire to make key contributions to develop applications on cutting-edge IBM technologies while providing them with an opportunity to improve their software writing skills.

Website : http://tgmc.in