About:

• VESIT RENAISSANCE CELL also known as VRC was established in the year of 2015-16. VRC is the brain child of our Principal Dr. J.M. Nair. She came up with an idea of having "young leaders" as an intermediate layer of workforce. She picked up few members from all departments. We are team of eleven members. To full fill objectives of VRC different activities where started. Project based learning and skill development activities give real growth to our goals.

Mission:

• Suggest and Implement Innovative schemes to afflux VESIT for achieving academic excellence.

Objectives:

• To Enhance VESIT goodwill
• To Enhance skills
• To create knowledge sharing facilities
• To promote Innovation
• To increase use of Technology in Teaching learning process

VRC Staff In charges:

Dr. Anjali Yeole (CMPN, VESIT)
Mrs. Abha Tewari (CMPN, VESIT)
Mr. Amit Singh (INFT, VESIT)
Mr. Mrugendra Vasmatkar (EXTC, VESIT)
Mrs. Monali Chaudhari (EXTC, VESIT)
Mr. Abhishek Chaudhari (ETRX, VESIT)
Mr. Abhijet Shete(ETRX, VESIT)
Mrs. Rohini Temkar (MCA, VESIT)
Mrs. Indira Bhattacharya (MCA, VESIT)
Mrs. Amudha Senthilkumar (INST, VESIT)
Dr. Keya Doshi (H&AS, VESIT)

Activities Conducted:

• Internships
  
  

  VRC in association with IIC has organized online summer internship nearly 136 students participated in it with nearly 12 projected guided by 10 faculty members. Mentoring sessions from Apli.ai for Internships Our College has partnered with an Initiative by few IIT Bombay Alumni powered by Apli.ai for mentoring about the Job / Internships market scenario after COVID. This event is organised for you by VESIT RENAISSANCE CELL in association with IIC along with VESIT-IQAC. The mentors are top-notch alumni placed in the best companies like Apple Inc, Mckinsey & Co (Boston), PWC ( US Office ), Master card.
  
  Schedule for Mentorship session on the app:
  

  Sr.no.	Date and timings	Topic	Speaker name	Role,Company
  1	6 pm to 6:45 pm 28th may 2020	Will you get job after lockdown	Ravi Kaushik	COO, Apli.ai (IIT Bombay Startup)
  2	6 pm to 6:45 pm 31st may 2020	software engg: how to start your career in programming and roadmap to land in a company like apple others: basic required in all domains	Abhijeet dubey	Software engineer,Apple
  3	6 pm to 6:45 pm 3rd june 2020	Tell your story with Resume	Ankit Kumar	Analyst, Master card
  4	6 pm to 6:45 pm 6th june 2020	Finance, analytics and consulting as a career option and How to crack worlds best company like Mckinsey and Co	Siddharth Babbar	Risk consultant McKinsey & Co
  5	6 pm to 6:45 pm 7th june 2020	Art of storytelling in video interviews	Urvashi Chawla	Career coach and soft skills trainer, Personal excellency

  
  
  
  Total number of students attended event
  
  

  	ETRX	CMPN	INST	EXTC	INFT	MCA	Total
  2nd	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	32
  3rd	10	37	16	32	8	10
  4th	5	25	2	16	9
  ME				1	7
  Total	15	62	18	49	24	42	210

  Summer Internship
  
  
  Duration:6-06-2019 to 12-07-2019
  No of Students : 118
  No of Mentors : 11
  No of Projects : 13
  
  

  Winter Internship
  
  
  Duration:27-12-2019 to 2-01-2020
  No of Students : 117
  No of Mentors : 13
  No of Projects : 18





ISTE approved STTP for faculty members on “Progressive Web App Development and Block-chaining”



VESIT Renaissance Cell organized ISTE approved one week STTP on “Web App Development & Blockchain” from 1st July to 6th July 2019.
Duration: 1st July to 6th July 2019.
Total no of faculty members(attended) :28 (from all departments)
Convener
Dr. M Vijayalakshmi, Vice Principal
Co-coordinators
Dr. Anjali Shrikant Yeole, CMPN
Mrs. Rohini Temkar, MCA

ATS Microsoft certification courses for students on IoT and Cross Platform Mobile app development



VESIT Renaissance Cell organized Organized ATS Microsoft certification courses for students on IoT and Cross Platform Mobile app development
Total Batches: (2- Batches IoT , 1 Batch -cross platform)
IOT Batch 1 :
Total Students 45
Timing : 8:30 AM To 12:30 PM
IOT Batch 2:
Total Students 44
Timing : 1:30 PM To 5:30 PM
Trainer Name : Mr. Nikhil Kuriaksoe
Dates : 1st July To 7th July 2019
CPMA: Total Students 61
Date: 1st July To 4th July 2019
Timing: 9:30 AM To 5:00 PM
Trainer Name: Mr. Lavish Arora

• Praxis 2019
  
  

  VESIT Renaissance Cell (VRC) organized mega technical festival of VESIT Praxis '19. Praxis -From Theory to Practice. This year, Praxis was held on 27th and 28th September. To deliver the best we worked, with the Technical Societies within VESIT viz. IEEE-VESIT, ISTE- VESIT, CSI-VESIT and ISA-VESIT and E-cell. This time we had inter-class competition in two groups juniors group: - FE + SE and seniors group: - TE+BE+MCA. Point’s distribution was as follows
  1 point for participation
  2 points for 3rd prize
  3 points for 2nd prize
  4 points for 1st prize
  -1 points for No show (candidate registered for event and did not participate)

  Number of events conducted in Praxis'19

  Organizer	Number of Events
  VRC	17
  E-cell	3
  CSI	3
  IEEE	4
  ISA	3
  ISTE	3
  Total	33

  Junior Results
  
  

  Senior Results

  Robosoccer Event
  Robotics Event

  
  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  
  
  
• Coursera for VESIT
  
  

  VESIT is offering an opportunity to do free Coursera courses. VRC got opportunity to organize the same. Three subjects per semester were selected and the respective Coursera courses have been identified by the department. Students are supposed to utilize the lockdown period to finish with these three courses. Students are not only restricted to three courses but also can join other courses of their interest only after submitting these three certificates. Students must sign up and Login in Coursera through ves email id. Semester and department wise list of the subject and link of Coursera is attached below:
  https://www.coursera.org/programs/ves-institute-of-technology-on-coursera-jvo5a
  As on 4/7/2020
  Total enrolments - 5909
  

• Smart India Hackathon
  
  

  Smart India Hackathon is one of the important activities of VESIT. VRC conducts a college level scrutiny round to select the worthy teams. In 2019-20 total 146 teams(112 software and 34 hardware ) applied for college level scrutiny.
  Shortlisted Teams for Internal Hackathon:
  1. 38 Software Teams
  2. 10 Hardware Teams
  Nominated Teams for SIH 2020, after Internal Hackathon:
  1. 9 Software Teams
  2. 10 Hardware Teams
  The industry experts were invited to judge the Internal Hackathon. Finally, total 9 Software teams and 6 Hardware teams were nominated for SIH 2020.
  Shortlisted Teams by SIH 2020 for Grand Finale:
  1. 4 Software Teams
  2. 1 Hardware Team

Shortlisted software team details


Team name	Team leader	PS ID	Problem statement title
A2M	Ankush shetty/ TE/ CMPN/ 8652206451	DS164	Development of App to capture the field patrolling track of frontline staff in their forest beat jurisdiction
Brute force	Gayatri Patil/ TE/ CMPN/ 9029932782	MS338	Converting handwritten documents as scanned images or photos (in any format) to legible text document using AI extracting important and critical information into database
Spark	Stevert Lobo	BK226	design of alarm management and analytics
SPARX	Khushboo chandnani/ BE/ INFT/ 9511738058	DK180	job recommender system



Shortlisted hardware team details


Team name	Team leader	PS ID	Problem statement Title
ASCII_13	Shubham singh/ TE/ EXTC/ 9511804676	PN313	Tracking and control of hot metal transportation trucks