The five-day event will come to a close on October 4 with a total of 35 events and seven workshops. It is one of the largest technical festivals in India.
This year’s events of ‘Shaastra’ — the annual technical festival of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras — beginning September 30 will focus on the theme, ‘Evolve’, where the students invite counterparts from across the globe to tussle with the very best of engineering minds and to witness some of the world’s most unheard of marvels like aero fest, Shaastra car, and other similar events. “Shaastra provides an excellent platform for young engineers to pitch their ideas on an international dais from where the IT honchos can pick them up if they find them interesting,” says Soham Shah, a Shaastra member.
The five-day event will come to a close on October 4 with a total of 35 events and seven workshops. It is one of the largest technical festivals in India organised by students and has the distinction of being ISO 9001:2000 certified. Last year’s edition of the event had about 10,000 students from over 600 colleges all over India and the total prize money on offer was worth over Rs10 lakh. This year’s Shaastra has invited Gujarati students to take the initiative, be a pioneer, saviour and ‘evolve’.
Heralding bold new initiatives like the Shaastra symposium and start-up city, to name a few, Shaastra aims to evolve into a technical festival which involves everyone - be it budding engineers, young entrepreneurs, future policy-makers or even technocrats. Shaastra 2009 promises to be better, more inclusive and more relevant to the problem society faces than ever before.
The competitions at Shaastra boast of having the highest number of outstation participants, from India as well as abroad, for any festival of its kind in India. Over the years, Shaastra has grown to be one of India’s most recognisable technical festivals, giving students an opportunity to showcase their skills.
Shaastra is on the lookout for young engineering minds from Gujarat. With big prize money, industrial connections and great credentials, Shaastra offers real dreams that are achievable. The organisers hope more Gujarati engineers will take up the challenge. Interested students can also log on to
www.shaastra.org for further details.
Last year, NIIT Surat had grabbed the third prize in a sub sect theme of ‘Contraptions’, while LD Engineering College bagged the second prize in ‘Robotics’ in the 2006 event. This year again, Shaastra is on the lookout for talented minds from the state. “There is the best arena to discuss engineering-related plans as the event sees the best of minds converge in a single platform where they can ideate, discuss and compete every year. Here, we get an opportunity to debate upon new ideas, find solutions to old problems and foresee the ones that are yet to come,” Shah adds.
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