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students to improvise their talents further. The Department of Physical
Education constantly coaches the students and helps them to unravel
their inherent talents. Details will be provided during the peer-team
visit.
5.3.2
Give details of the achievements of students in co-curricular,
extracurricular and cultural activities at different levels: University /
State / Zonal / National / International, etc. during the last four years.
The students of VIT are provided with ample opportunities to nurture their
creativity and develop wholesome personality. The students can opt for
membership in any one or more of the following clubs depending on their
interest and take part in all activities of the club.
The following are some of the achievements
in 2013
by the students in
different activities. Information on previous years will be provided during
the peer team visit.
Harmanpreet Singh(10BCE0076) Prateek Saraf (10BCE0488)
Harshit Sharaff(10BCE0415)
along with the assistance of Prof.
Sharmila Banu- (coach) SCSE participated in an international level
competition
hosted
by
ACM every
year
i.e.
ACM-
ICPC (
International Collegiate Programming Contest).
This
year
around 300 teams participated from all over India in an initial
online coding round held on 19/10/2013 and only 60 teams were
selected for the next round which was onsite round held at IIT
KANPUR on 12-13 december,2013. VIT is the only team qualified for
the onsite round from VIT and represented VIT in the competition held
at IIT-KANPUR
Hamza Khan
, a final year
B.Tech (Bioinformatics)
Student at VIT
University, India has been selected for the University of
Queensland
Summer Research Program 2013
. (
http://www.uq.edu.au/under
graduate/summer-research
) She was also selected for the Mitacs
Globalink Program for a research internship at the University of
Calgary, Canada last summer (
http://www.mitacs.ca/sites/default/files/
imagecache/gallery_full_480px/hamakhan_ucalg.jpg
) Before that She had
received the 'India Academy of Science Summer Fellowship' in 2012.
A group of B.Tech third year (Mechanical Engineering) students from
VIT, Chennai campus, Mech students Kanabar Viral, Pratik
Rachchh, Kothari Anshul, Aditya Vasudeva Rao
have come up with
a simple but effective solution to prevent road accidents. The students
have
connected the car’s steering to the brake system, which would
slow down the vehicle when it turns more than a particular angle
.
Quake
is a mobile application that allows students to manage their
class timings and schedules from their phones. The application was
initially developed for Android platform and is in active development