Bulletin 2007 - 02 - 07
OnliNews 07 - 02 - 2007
STUDENTS WIN ACCOLADES
5th February: Founder of Standard Oil Company, John Davison Rockefeller, once said "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation, every possession, a duty". The evergreen quote holds high relevance in the case of students at the campus who have been bestowed upon the responsibility to keep the flag of the Institute flying high. And like all other previous batches, the current batches have once again helped the Institute to achieve high degrees of success both at national and International fronts and thus maintain the tradition.
There have been quite a lot of milestones being achieved by the students of the institute in last academic year. The most important of the achievements being the final round qualification by a team from the Institute for the third consecutive year in the Global Social Entrepreneurship competition being conducted by University of Washington. Team Banyan from BIM comprising of Sumit Bihani and Ankur Shukla, both from PGP2 is one among the only ten teams that have been selected for the final round of the event and have been invited to Seattle to present their business model in front of an elite bench of judges which would also include some venture capital its looking keenly into the business ideas presented by young teams. While presenting the Institute at a competition of such repute is in itself a huge source of motivation, the team is equally enthused about the chance that they have earned for themselves of visiting a foreign country. The duo has already completed most of the formalities required forVisa.
The duo along with Suprabhat of PGP2 have already won second prize at TAPMI's annual event Atharva for the same plan which is based upon promoting environmental protection by manufacturing wood-free paper and also aspires to provide self-sustenance for poor rural households by giving them employment and ownership in business. This win has definitely lifted their confidence levels further(the contest at TAPMI had six teams from BIM qualifying for pre-final round, highest among all institutes in the country).BNA joins with the BIM family in wishing them luck for the contest. The final rounds will be held from 27th February to
2nd March, 2007.
TAPMI is not the only institute which has been a witness to the brilliance by the students of BIM. There have been numerous others. Prominent among other achievements are first prize win by the team comprising of Abhishek Lauhadiya, Lokesh and Biswarup Das, all of PGP2 at the Business Plan competition at IIM Lucknow. The team has not only won the accolades for the
Institute but also has a venture capital firm willing to provide them with a seed capital worth 20 lakhs for their idea in addition to taking care of training and other such requirements. However,
the team has rejected the offer and seems to be content with the cash prize.
However Business plans are not the only area where students at the Institute have emerged with colorful results. Muthupalaniaapan and Vijay have won second prize at ET in the classroom contest. The team has won quiet some stuff at the 1.35 lakhs Rupees contest which includes Tissot watches which for some unknown reason, both the members have been hiding from their batch mates.
Raamakrishnan along with Aparna of PGP2 also authored the paper that was selected at HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian and International Conference) Conference 2006 organized at Singapore.
Raj Mohan of PGP2 added another dimension to the success by winning first prize at Strategy game ABHYUDHYA: Digital Fortress organized by IFMR, Chennai. At the same event, Christopher Selvin and Arvindh coupled with a team from MICA and won second prize in another category. Both of them won some cool prizes for themselves in the process.
While we have covered only half the story above, the list already looks impressive. PGP1 has demonstrated their mettle too by winning some very prestigious awards notably among them being the second place achieved at INFOCOMM paper presentation contest by Rahul Kumar of PGP1 for his paper on “Innovate to Differentiate". The prize distribution ceremony that was organized at Calcutta saw the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam handing over the prize to the young author. Also, as a part of the prize, Rahul has also been promised a research project at one of the leading organizations of the country.
Another major achievement was attained when the team comprising of Jagadeesh, Nanditha of PGP1 and Aparna of PGP2 got selected for the regionalround of Dabur Navigator case study contest which saw participation by invitation from leading colleges of the country.
Vasanthan of PGP1 did the college proud by winning third prize in a CSR game Duvidha organized by TAPMI.
Then there were numerous events where students from the Institute went till the last step, unfortunately however, could not cross the last hurdle. Notable among them were AIMA strategy games at Coimbatore, where two teams went till the regional finals; Team from the Institute qualifying for IIMA Strategy game Mouse Trap final round; and Business Plan Competitions held at XIM Bhubhuneshwar and IIM Ahmedabad. The ones mentioned above are some among the prizes that have been won by the students of the Institute already. However, a whole pack of events and contests with presentation from the Institute are still going on as we “key in” the bulletin. Hence, as can be seen, the reputation hard earned by the previous batches continues to inspire the students at the campus to achieve success at several platforms.
QUEST CLUB GIVEN A FORMAL STRUCTURE
5th February: Last days of the previous semester saw a lot of action happening around the ‘quizzing’ theme at the campus. The volumes of activity can be understood from the very fact that the same brought some clubs and committees on a verge of a dispute and ultimately led to a formal structure given to the otherwise a casual open forum, Quest Club. The club, in future, like all other committees will have some specific members who would work towards promoting the ‘quizzing’ as a hobby among the students at the campus. The club, earlier, used to be an open forum with participation from students solely on voluntary basis.
Finclub was first to move as they launched the event that they called “Kshana”. The event was promoted aggressively to ensure good participation. The event was designed to check the participants on their general awareness levels in the basic elimination round. The teams that qualified for the final round were then judged upon several criteria like presentation skills, reasonableness, innovativeness, ability to tackle questions by the judges that included Prof. Jawahar and Prof. Sriram. The event saw enthusiastic participation from both the batches. As the event had several other rounds along with the quiz, there was not much resistance to the idea and the event moved on smoothly. The new team of Finclub from BIM23 did a good job managing the show and tried to bring in as much professionalism as possible in the event.
However, soon after Finclub, even Bismarc moved into the space that members of the Quest Club claimed to have their right upon. The Marketing club, soon launched their event that they named as “Quixodus”. The event like, all other Bismarc an event was promoted wonderfully and was able to attract attention among the students at the campus. However, it was at this stage when some misunderstanding crept in between some members of the club and the ardent followers of Quizzing at the campus who have been responsible for organizing quizzes till now. The latter claimed that the marketing club had agreed upon the theme of the quiz to be a general one before the launch but had later gone back on the agreement and modeled the quiz to be that of a business quiz one something that was unacceptable to them. Bismarc members however rejected their claim and contended that they had taken all of them into confidence before going ahead with the arrangements. Amid all this confusion, the event always seemed to be in doubt. However, the confusion evaporated as finally an agreement was reached. The quiz was given a green signal and a formal structure was given to the quiz club. The new club so formed would be solely responsible for all quizzing related activities.
The event was conducted with much pomp and show. The quiz that was broken into many theme based rounds saw huge participation from the crowd. Like all their other events, Bismarc
was able to raise the anticipation levels among the students as many of them registered in teams of two. The participation was healthy for the quiz that was arranged in the in the mess complex.
The first round of the quiz was a written one after which saw many of the contestants getting eliminated. Only six teams qualified for the final rounds which emerged as keenly contested ones. Nanditha and Krishna Kumar of PGP1 finally emerged as the winners of the Quiz. Credit goes to the new Bismarc team from BIM 23 for conducting the event successfully despite all the confusion and making it a a resounding success.
SUBSCRIBER IS THE KING!!!
“Looking forward to a placement update from you. Cheers”
-Puneet, BIM-17
There have been quite a lot of milestones being achieved by the students of the institute in last academic year. The most important of the achievements being the final round qualification by a team from the Institute for the third consecutive year in the Global Social Entrepreneurship competition being conducted by University of Washington. Team Banyan from BIM comprising of Sumit Bihani and Ankur Shukla, both from PGP2 is one among the only ten teams that have been selected for the final round of the event and have been invited to Seattle to present their business model in front of an elite bench of judges which would also include some venture capital its looking keenly into the business ideas presented by young teams. While presenting the Institute at a competition of such repute is in itself a huge source of motivation, the team is equally enthused about the chance that they have earned for themselves of visiting a foreign country. The duo has already completed most of the formalities required forVisa.
The duo along with Suprabhat of PGP2 have already won second prize at TAPMI's annual event Atharva for the same plan which is based upon promoting environmental protection by manufacturing wood-free paper and also aspires to provide self-sustenance for poor rural households by giving them employment and ownership in business. This win has definitely lifted their confidence levels further(the contest at TAPMI had six teams from BIM qualifying for pre-final round, highest among all institutes in the country).BNA joins with the BIM family in wishing them luck for the contest. The final rounds will be held from 27th February to
2nd March, 2007.
TAPMI is not the only institute which has been a witness to the brilliance by the students of BIM. There have been numerous others. Prominent among other achievements are first prize win by the team comprising of Abhishek Lauhadiya, Lokesh and Biswarup Das, all of PGP2 at the Business Plan competition at IIM Lucknow. The team has not only won the accolades for the
Institute but also has a venture capital firm willing to provide them with a seed capital worth 20 lakhs for their idea in addition to taking care of training and other such requirements. However,
the team has rejected the offer and seems to be content with the cash prize.
However Business plans are not the only area where students at the Institute have emerged with colorful results. Muthupalaniaapan and Vijay have won second prize at ET in the classroom contest. The team has won quiet some stuff at the 1.35 lakhs Rupees contest which includes Tissot watches which for some unknown reason, both the members have been hiding from their batch mates.
Raamakrishnan along with Aparna of PGP2 also authored the paper that was selected at HPAIR (Harvard Project for Asian and International Conference) Conference 2006 organized at Singapore.
Raj Mohan of PGP2 added another dimension to the success by winning first prize at Strategy game ABHYUDHYA: Digital Fortress organized by IFMR, Chennai. At the same event, Christopher Selvin and Arvindh coupled with a team from MICA and won second prize in another category. Both of them won some cool prizes for themselves in the process.
While we have covered only half the story above, the list already looks impressive. PGP1 has demonstrated their mettle too by winning some very prestigious awards notably among them being the second place achieved at INFOCOMM paper presentation contest by Rahul Kumar of PGP1 for his paper on “Innovate to Differentiate". The prize distribution ceremony that was organized at Calcutta saw the President, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam handing over the prize to the young author. Also, as a part of the prize, Rahul has also been promised a research project at one of the leading organizations of the country.
Another major achievement was attained when the team comprising of Jagadeesh, Nanditha of PGP1 and Aparna of PGP2 got selected for the regionalround of Dabur Navigator case study contest which saw participation by invitation from leading colleges of the country.
Vasanthan of PGP1 did the college proud by winning third prize in a CSR game Duvidha organized by TAPMI.
Then there were numerous events where students from the Institute went till the last step, unfortunately however, could not cross the last hurdle. Notable among them were AIMA strategy games at Coimbatore, where two teams went till the regional finals; Team from the Institute qualifying for IIMA Strategy game Mouse Trap final round; and Business Plan Competitions held at XIM Bhubhuneshwar and IIM Ahmedabad. The ones mentioned above are some among the prizes that have been won by the students of the Institute already. However, a whole pack of events and contests with presentation from the Institute are still going on as we “key in” the bulletin. Hence, as can be seen, the reputation hard earned by the previous batches continues to inspire the students at the campus to achieve success at several platforms.
QUEST CLUB GIVEN A FORMAL STRUCTURE
5th February: Last days of the previous semester saw a lot of action happening around the ‘quizzing’ theme at the campus. The volumes of activity can be understood from the very fact that the same brought some clubs and committees on a verge of a dispute and ultimately led to a formal structure given to the otherwise a casual open forum, Quest Club. The club, in future, like all other committees will have some specific members who would work towards promoting the ‘quizzing’ as a hobby among the students at the campus. The club, earlier, used to be an open forum with participation from students solely on voluntary basis.
Finclub was first to move as they launched the event that they called “Kshana”. The event was promoted aggressively to ensure good participation. The event was designed to check the participants on their general awareness levels in the basic elimination round. The teams that qualified for the final round were then judged upon several criteria like presentation skills, reasonableness, innovativeness, ability to tackle questions by the judges that included Prof. Jawahar and Prof. Sriram. The event saw enthusiastic participation from both the batches. As the event had several other rounds along with the quiz, there was not much resistance to the idea and the event moved on smoothly. The new team of Finclub from BIM23 did a good job managing the show and tried to bring in as much professionalism as possible in the event.
However, soon after Finclub, even Bismarc moved into the space that members of the Quest Club claimed to have their right upon. The Marketing club, soon launched their event that they named as “Quixodus”. The event like, all other Bismarc an event was promoted wonderfully and was able to attract attention among the students at the campus. However, it was at this stage when some misunderstanding crept in between some members of the club and the ardent followers of Quizzing at the campus who have been responsible for organizing quizzes till now. The latter claimed that the marketing club had agreed upon the theme of the quiz to be a general one before the launch but had later gone back on the agreement and modeled the quiz to be that of a business quiz one something that was unacceptable to them. Bismarc members however rejected their claim and contended that they had taken all of them into confidence before going ahead with the arrangements. Amid all this confusion, the event always seemed to be in doubt. However, the confusion evaporated as finally an agreement was reached. The quiz was given a green signal and a formal structure was given to the quiz club. The new club so formed would be solely responsible for all quizzing related activities.
The event was conducted with much pomp and show. The quiz that was broken into many theme based rounds saw huge participation from the crowd. Like all their other events, Bismarc
was able to raise the anticipation levels among the students as many of them registered in teams of two. The participation was healthy for the quiz that was arranged in the in the mess complex.
The first round of the quiz was a written one after which saw many of the contestants getting eliminated. Only six teams qualified for the final rounds which emerged as keenly contested ones. Nanditha and Krishna Kumar of PGP1 finally emerged as the winners of the Quiz. Credit goes to the new Bismarc team from BIM 23 for conducting the event successfully despite all the confusion and making it a a resounding success.
SUBSCRIBER IS THE KING!!!
“Looking forward to a placement update from you. Cheers”
-Puneet, BIM-17
posted by BIM News Agency @ 7:28 am
<< Home