Techniche
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Techniche is the annual Techno-Management festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
, India
. Techniche was started in 1999 and is generally held in the first weekend of September and lasts for three days and four nights. It comprises numerous competitions, lectures, talks, exhibitions, workshops and nites.
Techniche 2011 shall be held from 1 to 4 September with the theme 'Celebrating Innovation'. With one of the best lecture series line-up in the nation, myriad of competitions, workshops, exhilarating nights and spectacular exhibitions, Techniche'11 promises to be the best and the biggest ever.
, UAE and Singapore
. Techniche has played host to Nobel laureates, leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs like Richard Stallman
, Kiran Karnik
, Prabhu Chawla
, Nathan Schulhof
, Dr. John C. Mather
, Jeff Lieberman
, Mike Fincke, Kiran Bedi
, Dr. Raghuram Krishnapuram, Yashavant Kanetkar
, Pranav Mistry
, Mark Toorock etc.
Techniche is a non-profit organization run by the student community of IIT Guwahati and promotes the development and honing of scientific and entrepreneurial skills in the academia and at the same time being socially responsible with its initiatives towards education amongst the underprivileged trough its module 'We care'. Techniche is relatively very young in comparison to the other major college cultural festivals of India,yet it has established itself amongst the biggest festivals of India in a very short period of time.
The symbol of Techniche are two pixelated saplings, orange and blue in colour. The saplings are the portrayal of how techniche integrates the 'youth' from all around the country and effects red the blue colour stands for the management face of Techniche while the orange represents the technological front of techniche.
half marathon
initiative was started first on 30 August, Techniche 2009, with a participation of more than 1000 in the two events proposed in the debutante year - The Glory Run(18 km) and The Dream Run(6 km)
For the second time it was organized on August 29, 2010 with more than 5000 participants in the 4 categories.This time the event included in addition a '21 km pro run' and a '21 km' cycle race with the motto of shaping the youth's attitude towards the environment and the motto was ~ "Youth for environment"
Special attendees included Zublee Baruah-singer, Akash Chopra
-cricketer and world’s largest parkour
group "American Parkour" and a coverage of the event was provided by Assam Tribune
and NDTV
India.
. The events of Techniche 2008 included-
(US); University of California, Berkeley
(US); Virginia Tech(US); MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(US); London School of Economics
(UK), Tsinghua University
, Beijing participated in the online module of TECHNICHE 2007.
Techniche witnessed the participants from across the country including the Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vizag, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Delhi, Srinagar, Ghaziabad, Agra, Lucknow, Banaras, Jamshedpur, Patna, Calcutta, Bhuwaneshwar.
The major events of this edition of Techniche were -
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati is an autonomous engineering and technology-oriented institute of higher education established by the Government of India, located in Guwahati, in the state of Assam in India...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Techniche was started in 1999 and is generally held in the first weekend of September and lasts for three days and four nights. It comprises numerous competitions, lectures, talks, exhibitions, workshops and nites.
Techniche 2011 shall be held from 1 to 4 September with the theme 'Celebrating Innovation'. With one of the best lecture series line-up in the nation, myriad of competitions, workshops, exhilarating nights and spectacular exhibitions, Techniche'11 promises to be the best and the biggest ever.
History
Techniche was started in 1999 from a humble two room beginning in the Technology complex of IIT Guwahati and since then has grown substantially in magnitude with a footfall of 15,000 participants from colleges and schools all across IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, UAE and Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
. Techniche has played host to Nobel laureates, leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs like Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman
Richard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...
, Kiran Karnik
Kiran Karnik
Kiran Karnik is a prominent figure and guiding force behind the Indian outsourcing industry. He has formerly been the president of NASSCOM , and is now one of its trustees. Mr...
, Prabhu Chawla
Prabhu Chawla
Prabhu Chawla is the Editor-in-chief of the Chennai-based The New Indian Express newspaper in India. Before, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today, India's leading weekly newsmagazine India Today Group. Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the...
, Nathan Schulhof
Nathan Schulhof
Nathan M. Schulhof is a technology industry entrepreneur with a career that spans over three decades. Schulhof is listed as the lead inventor on three U.S. patents ,....
, Dr. John C. Mather
John C. Mather
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....
, Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman is an American film director and writer.His films include:*Squirm*Blue Sunshine*Just Before Dawn*The NeverEnding Story III*Satan's Little Helper-External links:...
, Mike Fincke, Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi
Kiran Bedi is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS. Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from...
, Dr. Raghuram Krishnapuram, Yashavant Kanetkar
Yashavant Kanetkar
Yashavant P. Kanetkar is an Indian computer science author, known for his books on programming languages.PhotoHe has authored several books on topics such as C, C++, VC++, C#, .NET, DirectX and COM programming. He is also a popular speaker on various technology subjects and is a regular columnist...
, Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is one of the inventors of SixthSense. He is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. He received Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He has completed...
, Mark Toorock etc.
Techniche is a non-profit organization run by the student community of IIT Guwahati and promotes the development and honing of scientific and entrepreneurial skills in the academia and at the same time being socially responsible with its initiatives towards education amongst the underprivileged trough its module 'We care'. Techniche is relatively very young in comparison to the other major college cultural festivals of India,yet it has established itself amongst the biggest festivals of India in a very short period of time.
The symbol of Techniche are two pixelated saplings, orange and blue in colour. The saplings are the portrayal of how techniche integrates the 'youth' from all around the country and effects red the blue colour stands for the management face of Techniche while the orange represents the technological front of techniche.
Events
The events of Techniche are differentiated into different testing and treating enthusiasts with competitions and lectures and workshops, etc. The module and event structure are as mentioned below -Event structure
- Lectures module comprises
- The Lecture Series involves inventors,creators, Nobel laureates and experts interacting with the audience in the form of a talk.
- The Industrial Conclave includes lectures on topics that are pertinent to the domains of management and industrial development by CEO's, entrepreneurs and business thinkers.
- Management Module
- Business plan presentation-Brainchild.
- Product launch.
- Stratagem., etc.
- Competitions
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- Parliamentary debate.
- Junkyard Wars
- Code wars
- Crime scene Investigation.
- Tech-scribe paper presentation. etc.
- Funniche
- LAN based gaming.
- Casino,etc.
- Robotics
- Manual.
- Semi Autonomous.
- Autonomous.
- Workshops on robotics.
- Pre-Defined
- 'Tech-scribe(The scientific paper submission competition)
- Aruna- Solving real world problems of rural India
- Pradarshini
- The module for exhibitions in Techniche, playing host to the latest technology such as Intel's quad core processorCentral processing unitThe central processing unit is the portion of a computer system that carries out the instructions of a computer program, to perform the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system. The CPU plays a role somewhat analogous to the brain in the computer. The term has been in...
, technology of the Indian ArmyIndian ArmyThe Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
(Techniche 2009) and Indian RailwaysIndian RailwaysIndian Railways , abbreviated as IR , is a departmental undertaking of Government of India, which owns and operates most of India's rail transport. It is overseen by the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India....
- Anti Collision Device (Techniche 2010) Iqbal AhmedIqbal AhmedIqbal Ahmed, OBE , is a British entrepreneur of Bangladeshi origin. Based in Manchester, he made his fortune in shrimp. The success of his two companies, Seamark and Ibco, have turned him into one of the UK's richest men. He is also the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times...
's smallest steam engine, which is registered in the Guinness book of world record.
- The module for exhibitions in Techniche, playing host to the latest technology such as Intel's quad core processor
- Workshops
- Techniche conducts workshops in semi-autonomous robotics in 15 colleges across India and organized the 'One Day Ethical Hacking Workshop' the unmanned aerial vehicleUnmanned aerial vehicleAn unmanned aerial vehicle , also known as a unmanned aircraft system , remotely piloted aircraft or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity...
workshop and fire fighting robots workshop etc.
- Techniche conducts workshops in semi-autonomous robotics in 15 colleges across India and organized the 'One Day Ethical Hacking Workshop' the unmanned aerial vehicle
- Techniche Online
- A set of general, science and astronomy quizzes along with online coding competition such as Ikaaru, digital fortress, byte code, etc.
- Career Fair
- A talk on future prospects for higher education provided until now by the embassies of AustraliaAustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
, FranceFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, SwitzerlandSwitzerlandSwitzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
, etc.
- A talk on future prospects for higher education provided until now by the embassies of Australia
- Technothlon
- The Annual International school championship consisting of quizzing, brainstorming, public speaking and workshops organized by Techniche. The first edition of Technothlon was witnessed in 2004 with a participation of 200. In 2006, the participation expanded to include the seven-sister states of North-East India and participation reaches 750. In 2008, Technothlon went National with a record participation of 18,000, which has grown ever since.
- With over 70 national centres and 5 international centers, Technothlon went International in 2010 and received a participation figure of 1.5 lacs thus making it the most successful event of Techniche.
- Technothlon consists of events for school children from class 9th to 12th being divided into two squads- namely 'junior' squad and 'haut' squad. A preliminary round is set which is usually held in mid July and only the selected teams then come for the finals, which are held during the time of Techniche.
- After the Sunset
- This module of Techniche puts forward entertainment after a long scheduled day of competitions, workshops and exhibitions ends. Being presented are laser shows, panel discussions, 'Search String' -the quiz, fire-shows and Nite performance by solar punch, révolution de la musique, etc.
Guwahati Half Marathon
The GuwahatiGuwahati
Guwahati, Pragjyotishpura in ancient Assam formerly known as Gauhati is a metropolis,the largest city of Assam in India and ancient urban area in North East India, with a population of 963,429. It is also the largest metropolitan area in north-eastern India...
half marathon
Half marathon
A half marathon is a road running event of . It is half the distance of a marathon and usually run on roads. Participation in half marathons has grown steadily recently. One of the main reasons for this is that it is a challenging distance, but does not require the same level of training that a...
initiative was started first on 30 August, Techniche 2009, with a participation of more than 1000 in the two events proposed in the debutante year - The Glory Run(18 km) and The Dream Run(6 km)
For the second time it was organized on August 29, 2010 with more than 5000 participants in the 4 categories.This time the event included in addition a '21 km pro run' and a '21 km' cycle race with the motto of shaping the youth's attitude towards the environment and the motto was ~ "Youth for environment"
Special attendees included Zublee Baruah-singer, Akash Chopra
Akash Chopra
Aakash Chopra is an Indian cricketer, who played for the Indian cricket team from late 2003 until late 2004 as a defensive opening batsman and close catcher in Test matches who evoked comparisons with Eknath Solkar...
-cricketer and world’s largest parkour
Parkour
Parkour is a method of movement focused on moving around obstacles with speed and efficiency. Originally developed in France, the main purpose of the discipline is to teach participants how to move through their environment by vaulting, rolling, running, climbing and jumping...
group "American Parkour" and a coverage of the event was provided by Assam Tribune
Assam Tribune
The Assam Tribune is an English daily newspaper published simultaneously from Guwahati and Dibrugarh, Assam. It is the highest circulated English daily in the North East India.First published from Guwahati, it is now published from Guwahati and Dibrugarh....
and NDTV
NDTV
NDTV is an Indian commercial broadcasting television network founded in 1988. It was founded by Prannoy Roy, an eminent journalist and current chairman and director of NDTV Group. NDTV currently has more than 1,000 employees producing news from over twenty locations in India...
India.
Social 360
On March 27, 2011 Techniche organized a one day camp for the children of 'Snehalyala' orphanage visited the campus for a one day tour of the campus and were made part of dance, dramatics, arts workshop conducted by Team Techniche and provided counseling and motivational talks by the institute psychologist and faculty members as a part of the event social 360.Blood donation camp
Techniche, as a part of its social initiative has held blood donation camps, in the IIT Guwahati Hospital, for the three days the festival commences.Techniche 2010
This edition of Techniche was held from 2nd to 5th September, 2010. It included live performances by "American Parkour" and the introduction of the first ever Industrial Conclave of the festival.- Lecture series (highlights)
- Richard StallmanRichard StallmanRichard Matthew Stallman , often shortened to rms,"'Richard Stallman' is just my mundane name; you can call me 'rms'"|last= Stallman|first= Richard|date= N.D.|work=Richard Stallman's homepage...
- Father of the Free Software Foundation, - Nathan SchulhofNathan SchulhofNathan M. Schulhof is a technology industry entrepreneur with a career that spans over three decades. Schulhof is listed as the lead inventor on three U.S. patents ,....
- Father of the mp3 industry, - Jeff LiebermanJeff LiebermanJeff Lieberman is an American film director and writer.His films include:*Squirm*Blue Sunshine*Just Before Dawn*The NeverEnding Story III*Satan's Little Helper-External links:...
- Host Time warp, - Giorgio Metta - Father of the babybot,
- Kiran KarnikKiran KarnikKiran Karnik is a prominent figure and guiding force behind the Indian outsourcing industry. He has formerly been the president of NASSCOM , and is now one of its trustees. Mr...
- Former President NASSCOM, - Mark Toorock - Founder of American Parkour,
- Pranab Kumar Barbora - Air Chief Marshall,
- Suhas Gopinath - CEO of Globals inc,
- Gopal G.D. Shrikanth - 'CEO Coach',
- Yashwant Kanetkar - author and director KICIT,
- Manish Gupta- Director IBM research.
- Richard Stallman
- Exhibition by Iqbal AhmedIqbal AhmedIqbal Ahmed, OBE , is a British entrepreneur of Bangladeshi origin. Based in Manchester, he made his fortune in shrimp. The success of his two companies, Seamark and Ibco, have turned him into one of the UK's richest men. He is also the highest British Bangladeshi to feature on the Sunday Times...
included the smallest steam engine in the world as acknowledged by the Guinness World RecordsGuinness World RecordsGuinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world... - Exhibition by NDRF on coping with natural disasters and live demonstrations.
- Technothlon went International with 5 countries and 70 centres total and recorded a participation of 1.5 lac.
- Live performances were presentated by quick change artists and fire angels.
Techniche 2009
- Lecture Series (Highlights)
- ISRO scientist and ChandrayaanChandrayaanChandrayaan-1 was India's first unmanned lunar probe. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation in October 2008, and operated until August 2009. The mission included a lunar orbiter and an impactor...
Chief scientist P.J. Bhat. - NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
astronaut Colonel Edward Michael Fincke. - Frank WilczekFrank WilczekFrank Anthony Wilczek is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
- Physics Nobel Laureate. - Shekar Dattatri - Wildlife Film-maker.
- Pranav MistryPranav MistryPranav Mistry is one of the inventors of SixthSense. He is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. He received Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He has completed...
presented the sixth sense technology.
- ISRO scientist and Chandrayaan
- Robotics
- Salvador - Manual
- SWAT - Semi autonomous.
- Burnout - Autonomous IC engine dirt car race.
- Technothlon participation crossed the 1 lac mark.
- The first Guwahati Half Marathon was held on 30 August 2009.
- Laser show was conducted in the Nites and specials module.
Techniche 2008
This was the decade edition of Techniche and saw the lecture series module include Nobel laureate Dr. John C. MatherJohn C. Mather
John Cromwell Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite with George Smoot. COBE was the first experiment to measure ".....
. The events of Techniche 2008 included-
- An Air Show by the Indian Air force.
- An exhibition by the Indian Army.
- A vintage car rally.
- Workshops on Management and HAMAmateur radio operatorAn amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other similar individuals on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio...
Radio and robotics by Vigyan Prasar. - A national-level parliamentary debate was held for the first time.
- Prabhu ChawlaPrabhu ChawlaPrabhu Chawla is the Editor-in-chief of the Chennai-based The New Indian Express newspaper in India. Before, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today, India's leading weekly newsmagazine India Today Group. Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the...
(Editor, India Today), Dr. C. MohanC. MohanC. Mohan is an IBM Fellow based at the IBM Almaden Research Center .He joined IBM Research in 1981 where he has worked on a number of topics in the areas of database, workflow and transaction management...
(Chief Scientist, IBM India), Dr. Harish Chandra Verma, Nassim Haramein (protagonist, the Resonance Project), Michel DaninoMichel DaninoMichel Danino , is a French‐born Indian author who has been living in Tamil Nadu, India since 1977.He participated in the translation and publication of the works of Sri Aurobindo and of The Mother...
(noted French archaeologist), and Amitabh Khare (IRCON) delivered lectures. - Video Conferencing was included for the first time in Techniche.
- Technothlon became national and got a record participation of 18,000.
Techniche 2007
Inaugurating on the 7th of September, Techniche 2007 is a three day celebration of innovation. In this edition of Techniche TechnicheOnline was launched and universities from all over the world like Stanford UniversityStanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
(US); University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
(US); Virginia Tech(US); MIT(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)(US); London School of Economics
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London...
(UK), Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University , colloquially known in Chinese as Qinghua, is a university in Beijing, China. The school is one of the nine universities of the C9 League. It was established in 1911 under the name "Tsinghua Xuetang" or "Tsinghua College" and was renamed the "Tsinghua School" one year later...
, Beijing participated in the online module of TECHNICHE 2007.
Techniche witnessed the participants from across the country including the Nagpur, Hyderabad, Vizag, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhopal, Jaipur, Delhi, Srinagar, Ghaziabad, Agra, Lucknow, Banaras, Jamshedpur, Patna, Calcutta, Bhuwaneshwar.
The major events of this edition of Techniche were -
- Inauguration by Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma, Minister, Health & Family Welfare, Guwahati Development, Information Technology and Science & Technology. Government of Assam.
- Kiran BediKiran BediKiran Bedi is an Indian social activist and a retired Indian Police Service officer. Bedi joined the police service in 1972 and became the first woman officer in the IPS. Bedi held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police Research and Development before she voluntarily retired from...
(first woman IPS officer) is the Guest Speaker on the Inaugural day, i.e. September 7. - Robotics
- Manual - robots playing Pac Man on ground.
- Semi autonomous – Robots playing Tennis.
- Autonomous - ‘The Ghost of Chernobyl’ man-like behaving machines.
- Underwater – a good working prototype of a submarine which had to move in all the 3–dimensions under water
- Glider making – designing prototypes of glider.
- Pradarshini module saw a display of the Intel Quad Core Processor and the technologies developed by IIT Guwahati students themselves.
- Launch of IIT Guwahati Intranet Campus Radio, now called RadioG. during the inauguration ceremony of Techniche, by the Minister of state, Dr. Himanta Biswa Sarma himself.
- A laser show was hosted for the first time in IIT Guwahati.