Pragyaa is the national level technical festival conducted by Shri Guru Gobind Singhji (SGGS) Institute of Engineering and Technology, Nanded started in 2005. Pragyaa has grown with every year. The 2008 edition showed participation even from Oman in a unique Blogging Competition - SCI-FI. The event is not just an exhibit of technical abilities and excellence, but it also entertains every person in the arena with its fun filled evenings. The college has its own Rock Band that plays its own compositions plus evenings are illuminated with crackers. The students also get to relax under the star filled sky as technical/animated movies are screened in the lounge on a 12ft x 16ft background. Pragyaa showcases talent from all walks of engineering. This event has been in line with popular events conducted in IITs.
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* 1 History
* 2 Popular Events: A Brief Overview
* 3 Pragyaa 2006: Attitudes are Contagious
* 4 Pragyaa 2007: Intelligence beyond Vision
* 5 Pragyaa 2008: Development Through Innovation…
* 6 Pragyaa 2009: ReFORM…ReSEARCH…ReCYCLE…
* 7 Pragyaa 2010: Know Disaster…No Disaster…
* 8 Lectures and Video-Conferences
o 8.1 Pragyaa 2005
o 8.2 Pragyaa 2007
o 8.3 Pragyaa 2008
* 9 Workshop
o 9.1 Pragyaa 2007
o 9.2 Pragyaa 2008
* 10 Miscellaneous
* 11 References
[edit] History
A group of few third year students planned this event in October 2004, created a framework for the whole event and brought its first edition in April 2005 which bagged around 300 participants from various parts of the country. Prof. Vishwanathan Mohan, a young faculty working with SGGS then, lead this bunch enthusiastic students from first to third year. The Idea of Pragyaa had to face a lot of difficulties before it could come to reality. but none the less it was an effort to give platform to young, undiscovered talent. Since then Pragyaa has found a major place in institutional agenda and with continued improvisations, PRAGYAA has turned into a mega event. Every year it has grown to accommodate more events and more participants.
Pragyaa Official website
[edit] Popular Events: A Brief Overview
Dirt Race:
One of the most popular events hosted in Pragyaa has always been the 'Dirt Race'. Generally, the objective is to build a car with specified dimensions and restricted energy resources that can run through a pre-designed race track in the shortest time. The race track consists of various hindrances that could be anything like a gravel bed, an incline, mud pits etc. Every car individually gets three chances to record its best lap timing. Teams are shortlisted accordingly, and eventually a winner is chosen. The prizes at stake are usually among the highest and most handsome. It takes place in the Instrumentation Department. This event has witnessed huge audience in the past.
[edit] Pragyaa 2006: Attitudes are Contagious
Pragyaa 2006 saw a participation of around 450 students and was characterized by the inclusion of Theme Songs - Composed and sung by the college's in house Rock Band. Prizes worth Rs. 75k were distributed.
[edit] Pragyaa 2007: Intelligence beyond Vision
Pragyaa 2007 grew to include an astonishing audience of 650. The event was characterized by the inclusion of E-Pragyaa - a web based series of event, demanding no physical participation. E-Pragyaa in 2007 and 2008 received entries from Oman thus making Pragya an INTERNATIONAL EVENT. Also Physicon was included which gave a new meaning to quizzing - making it Physics specific and thus more demanding. Prizes worth Rs. 150K were distributed. The theme songs included Heroes Unseen - the quality of which matched a professional track.
[edit] Pragyaa 2008: Development Through Innovation…
Again the size doubled in all aspects. Participation of over 1600 students, prizes over Rs. 252k were distributed this time. The events were organised with an objective of partcipation from all possible professional courses like engineering, agriculture engineering, fashion designing, architecture, animation and physics. The theme songs were in no way a child's play. Songs like Develop through Innovation and By My Side were appreciated by people even in San Diago and Canada and also Australia.
[edit] Pragyaa 2009: ReFORM…ReSEARCH…ReCYCLE…
It was the 5th ostentatious successful year of National Level Technical Fiesta, which was equally proficient in implementing its theme of Reform...Research...Recycle... It was an event that was home for over 34 technical events, an event that attracted larger number of Companies, an event that had a greater volume of participation from outside, an event that catered a bigger number of visitors, an event that was enriched by the presence of many multifaceted personalities.
[edit] Pragyaa 2010: Know Disaster…No Disaster…
PRAGYAA, an ethos of a team, a tale of gradual success, a summation of smart efforts, a radiation of decisive power and a fusion of transpiring ardour to explore technology and transcend the existing one.
[edit] Lectures and Video-Conferences
[edit] Pragyaa 2005
* Prof. Richard Stallman
* Dr. Michael Frank: Official Web Page
>> Topic: Low Power Electronics: Exploring the Fundamental Limits of Computation
[edit] Pragyaa 2007
* Prof. Roel Baets: Photonics Research Group
>> Topic: Silicon Nanophotonics
* Mr. Anand Adkoli: CEO, Liqwid Krystal, Bangalore.
>> Topic: Opportunities for an engineer as an entrepreuner
* Mr. Malhar Kulkarni: Assistant Professor, IIT, Bombay .
>> Topic: Paninian grammar and translation.
* Dr. Sandeep Pandey: Co-founder & ASHA & Ex-Professor,IIT,Kanpur.
>> Topic: Discussion on Development.
* Dr. Suhas Joshi: Professor, IIT, Bombay.
>> Topic: Micro machining.
* Mr. Balashaheb Darade: Cognizant Technology Solution, Pune.
>> Topic: Nanotechnology.
[edit] Pragyaa 2008
* Dr. D. L. Waikar: Singapore Engineering and Polytechnic, Singapore
>> Topic: Energy Resources
* Dr. R. K. Shyamasundar: IBM India Research Lab., Pune
>> Topic: Rationale for Designing of Programming Languages
* Dr. Naresh Dadich: Director, IUCAA, Pune
>> Topic: Why Einstein? : A Journey from Newton to Einstein
* Mr. Raghunath Medge: President, Mumbai Dabbawalas
>> Topic: The Magic of Dabbawala Unfolded!
* Mr. Sandeep Satpal: Research Engineer in YAHOO! India, Bangalore
>> Topic: Introduction to Data Mining
[edit] Workshop
[edit] Pragyaa 2007
* Mr. Prakash Shetty: Manager Red Hat (India).
>> Workshop on LINUX.
* Mr. Josef: I-Solution, Bangalore.
>> Workshop on Personality Development.
[edit] Pragyaa 2008
* Dr. M. Shashikumar: Principal Research Scientist, CDAC, Mumbai
>> Workshop on AI/NLP.
[edit] Miscellaneous
Pragyaa comes from a word Pragna in Sanskrit which means Wisdom Sanskrit Glossary
[edit] References
Pragyaa 2010 Official website
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