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As part of the Smart India Hackathon, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) conducted an Internal Hackathon. The event commenced on August 29, 2024, with team registrations, followed by the official opening of the hackathon on August 30. Dr.Rajashree Jain, the SPOC for SIH at SICSR welcomed the particiaptns and briefed on the mode of Internal Hackathon. She also explained the evaluation process in detail to the gathered teams. 9 teams, comprising 54 students, registered for the competition. Teams were given 24 hours, from 10:00 AM on August 30 to 10:00 AM on August 31, to prepare their presentations on solutions for problem statements they selected from the official SIH portal. Some teams were present at the campus to prepare solving the problem. Page 3 of 14
Dr.Parag Kaveri, Dy.Direcotr, SICSR, Dr.Rajashree Jain, Professor &SPoC, SIH 2024 and Dr.Deepali Suryawanshi vistd the teams to motivate them on 30 the August 2024. Following the close of submissions at 10:00 AM on August 31, the evaluation process began. The hackathon featured two offline rounds, each judged by different panels. In the first round, all 9 teams presented their solutions to the jury. The initial screening was conducted by two separate panels: one panel, consisting of Dr. Sarika Sharma and Mr. Ashok Pattar, evaluated 5 teams, while the second panel, consisting of Dr. Shrikant Mapari and Mr. Rajesh Math, assessed 4 teams. After these presentations, each panel nominated two teams to advance to the final round.
In the final round, the top four teams presented their solutions to a new jury panel, which included Mr. Rohan Bhase and Dr. Dimple Pal. The jury evaluated the teams based on criteria such as creativity, feasibility, impact, and overall execution, ultimately selecting the winners and runners-up. The event concluded with insightful speeches from the jury members, followed by the distribution of certificates to all participants and volunteers. Additionally, mementos were presented to all the panellists as a token of appreciation.
Two teams SyntaxSquad and BotBrigate were shortlisted. Dr.Parag Kaveri, Deputy Director, SICSR along with Dr.Rajashree Jain, Professor &SPoC, SIH 2024, Dr.Dimple Pal, Jury members SICSR’s IH, Mr.Rohan Bhase, Jury members SICSR’s IH and Mr.Sanket Kurudkar graced the occasion and handed over the certificates to shortlisted teams.
Note: The Smart India Hackathon (SIH) 2024 is a nationwide initiative designed to provide students with a platform to tackle some of the pressing problems we face in our daily lives. The goal is to foster a culture of product innovation and develop a problem-solving mindset among the participants. SIH was launched by AICTE and the Ministry of Education (MoE), and previous editions have proven to be extremely beneficial, helping students gain diverse perspectives on problems and develop unique, efficient solutions.
On May 14th, 2024, we had the pleasure of hosting an enriching panel discussion on “AI for Enterprise” at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research.
Our esteemed panelists, Himanshu Shah, Atul Pawar, Abhishek Mishra, Piyush Saurav, and Rahul Jain from Snowflake, led a dynamic conversation on leveraging AI to drive innovation and growth in enterprise settings.
From data cloud management to machine learning applications, the discussion covered it all, offering valuable insights and practical strategies for integrating AI into business operations.
A huge thank you to our panelists for sharing their expertise.
Special thanks to Alumna Kriti Vashisth from Snowflake and Sanket Kurdukar and Placement Team from SICSR for organizing this insightful event.
The Industry readiness event conducted at #SICSR was aimed at building a community of empowered and job-ready students. Our students from MBA-IT, MBA-DT and MSC-CA were thrilled to receive the much needed guidance from Industry experts. Thanks Dr. Bishwajit Mohapatra, Head Customer Solutions at Amazon Web Services for speaking to our students and sharing valuable insights and experience. Students are excited and motivated after listening the passionate career growth stories. Here is the beginning of #mentorship magic.
The innovation cell and the e-cell at the institute arranged an online workshop for the students on July 16, 2022. This workshop was organised as part of our collaboration with Reskill. The speaker introduced students to MetaSpark AR. Students submitted their AR effects after the session.
As part of our collaboration with GitHub and IncubateIND, a hands-on GitHub workshop and a two-day hackathon was organized from June 2, 2021 to June 4, 2021. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Kaushik Roy, Principal Architect, IncubateIND.
Students had an excellent cultural and technical learning experience with their Mexican counterparts.
Some students shared the feedback as follows:As part of our collaboration with GitHub and IncubateIND, a hands-on GitHub workshop and a two-day hackathon was organized from June 2, 2021 to June 4, 2021. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Kaushik Roy, Principal Architect, IncubateIND.
Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research regularly organizes guest sessions for enhancing the knowledge and developing the personality of students. It aims in providing industry insights to the students and providing them industry exposure. One such session was organized on “Business Analyst Role in Agile and its scope” on 27 March 2021 for students of MBA-IT The guest session was conducted by our Alumna Ms. Shatakshi Swaroop.
Our alumnus Deekshit Sooryadevara conducted a session on “Techniques on how to write a structured report for businesses by giving various examples and providing step by step personal insights on how to structure a report for a business use”. He explained about the industrial functioning and requirements and also the structuring techniques around the hyper-local markets in the next 5 years.
A guest lecture was conducted by Ms. Atiya Hassan on Technology trends and insights. Atiya is an alumni of SICSR, BCA batch 2013-2016, and the consistent topper for three years. She explained nicely how the technologies are emerging and how they are used in the industry. The main focus was on the field of Data Science and Data analytics, along with the currently used tools. She also shared her journey and experience in KPMG and that how she transformed herself from a Data Analyst to working with a project team for automation tasks. It was a great session conducted by her. The session was interactive and students cleared their doubts related to skillsets they should be equipped with to enter into analytics field.
IEEE SICSR Pune Student Branch organised a workshop on Resume Building on 21st February 2021.
Women in Engineering Affinity Group of IEEE Pune Section with IEEE Madras Section and Women in Engineering Affinity Groups of the following IEEE Student Branches:
IEEE SICSR Pune Student Branch organised a workshop on Resume Building on 21st February 2021.
The main motto of the symposium was the Returning Mothers and to bring back women scientists and engineers to re-join the workforce. The symposium provided an opportunity to explore the creative side and find a way to start their own venture. The two days of the symposium also provided a path for learning new technologies and to develop the required skills. This gathering created an interface to get hired by industry who were willing and to start their own venture. In short, the symposium was a highly interactive platform that aimed to build a collaborative community of women in technology to Innovate, Empower, Inspire and Engage.
Dr.Rajashree Jain Professor SICSR and Mentor IEEE WIE, Pune welcomed the audience and mentioned the significance of the event.
About 25 speakers of international repute inspired the audience and more 100 delegates from across the country benefitted from the symposium.
IEEE computer Society, WE Power and world Bank Energy and Extractives group were event sponsors.
The first competition (Project Euler) started on March 30th 2020 and ended on 19th May 2020. In this, students have participated and developed the solution for various problem statements randomly delivered by Project Euler for 50 days. The submission repository was GitHub. The event witnessed 114 commits, making SICSR ACM chapter one of the most active repositories on GitHub. Himani Dalal received a Certificate of Appreciation.
Hour of Code by SICSR ACM Chapter was held on 9th December 2019. The students of Symbiosis Institute Of Computer Studies and Research went to Hutatma Rajguru School, which is a school for underprivileged children to teach the students studying in grades 5th to 8th, the basic concepts of computing through games and fun learning activities.
4th ACM-W National Hackathon by ACM India was held at SICSR on 16th-17th Nov’2019. The event was sponsored by ORACLE academy and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Women in Engineering Student Branch Affinity Group Inauguration and session on IoT and Cloud Computing was held on 24th August 2019.
A value added course on Sky Computing was conducted for the undergraduate students from 15th February 2019 to 30th March 2019.
Hour of Code by SICSR ACM Chapter was held on 6th and 7th December 2018. MSc (CA) and BCA students of Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research approached two different schools to explain computing concepts to the students studying in grades 6, 7, 8 and 9.
A one day workshop on Git was conducted on 24th November 2018 for the students of BCA Semester V students. This workshop has conducted in association with RedHat, Pune.
A Mentoring Session was organized for all students and willing aspirants of Grace Hopper Celebration, 2019 (Orlando as well as Bangalore), on February 26, 2019. This session was also joined by outstation students virtually through Facebook and Instagram Live. The event commenced with the introduction and felicitation of all the guests followed by Mrs. Sushma Joshi talk on Grace Hopper Celebration after which the moderator Mrs. Pallavi Singh started the discussion with questions. All the mentors discussed and clarified the doubts of the audience. Lastly, an ex-SICSR student Ms. Meenakshi Dhanani, an attendee at Grace Hopper Celebration 2017, shared her experience in the three day conference and how it inspired her to contribute towards the growth of the underrepresented groups in Information Technology and achieve her job today.