“e-Disha“, a Two Week technical event was organized by the Department of Information Technology, VESIT in association with VESIT-IQAC and IIC from 15th July 2020 to30th July 2020. Our technical event e-Disha started on 15th July. e-Disha consisted of various activities.
The event started with a series of webinars which were open for all branches of VESIT..
The first webinar was on ‘Placement / Job search’ by our alumni Ms. Nidhi Shah who is currently working as a software developer at Amazon web services. This webinar focused on Tips and Tricks to crack the job search.
On 16th July we had a webinar on ‘ Competitive Programming. How to Handle’ by Mr. Shaurya Gupta who is currently working at Juspay.
This webinar guided the audience on What is competitive coding, how to prepare for it, learning resources, practice resources, When to start giving the contests, What are the different prestigious coding competitions etc.
On 17th July we had a third webinar on ‘Building Scalable Cloud Services Using Docker’ by our alumni Sangeetha Krishnan who is currently working as a computer scientist at Adobe. In this webinar she demonstrated how to make and deploy the applications using docker.
On 20th July, we had a forth webinar on ‘Human Centered Design Research for Technology in Health’ by our alumni Ms. Arpita Bhattacharya who is currently a PhD student at University of Washington.. This webinar focused on using HCD methods for designing for remote care to support teenagers with stress and depression management.
On 21st July we had a fifth webinar on ‘Recommendation Systems using AI’ by Visha Israni. A S/W Engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase and Co.This webinar explained the working of recommendation systems and how industry giants like Youtube, Netflix provides the users with the personal catalogue of content which makes them more reimitting for us.
On 22nd July we had 6th and the last webinar on ‘Professional Career Opportunities After BE’ by Mr. Manish Jha ,Director of SQUAD Infotech Private LTD. This webinar was about what are the different opportunities after graduation. This webinar provided a breakthrough to the students to pursue their dreams.
The webinars were well appreciated by the viewer from students and faculty of the IT department as well as from other departments of VESIT.
the Webinar series was followed by Quizzes . Two quizzes were conducted for the students of the dept of Information Technology,First quiz on Python was conducted on 23rd July and the second quiz on C was conducted on 24th July. We had a large no. of student participation in both the quizzes.
On 27th July ,a technical Paper Writing competition was scheduled. However due to the request from final year students who are currently busy with their placements, this event has been postponed till further notice. The deadline for the paper submission has been extended to 8th August 2020.
We had scheduled the activity “Presentation mastery” On 28th . But due to some unavoidable circumstances, we clubbed this event with “e-Exhibition” activity scheduled on 30th July. The selected videos of this event were exhibited to all the students and faculties.
The second last activity on Android application development was scheduled On 29th July. The judges presented their views and remarks on the projects to the participants through the google meet.
On 30th July e-Disha technical event ended with the “Project e-Exhibition” and “Presentation Mastery” activities and the valedictory speech.