Mumbai: An international science and technology festival, where 165,000 people will attend and a students from 2500 colleges across India and over 500 overseas will participate, is coming in the December 2016 with the motto of promoting technology, scientific thinking and innovation. Born in 1998, Techfest, managed by students of IIT Bombay, has become Asia’s largest science and technology festival, which will be held on 16-18 December 2016.
The mega student festival has lined up various science and technology based thematic initiatives, challenges, competitions, workshops, exhibitions and lectures. The Techfest’s international challenges provide students an international platform to show their skills and prove themselves: International Coding Challenge, International Robotics Challenge, Robowars, and Indian Student Supercomputing Challenge. Here find a brief on various competitions and challenges that are going to steal the show.
For the first time, Techfest 2016 is organizing an exciting challenge based on latest technological innovation that goes beyond human and machine relations under the banner of Spectechale. Resemblance is one of contests where participating teams are invited to propose and implement a satellite image classification technique for a given data set of satellite imagery. Generex is another challenge under this category, where participating teams are invited to propose an idea and make an android application for solving the daily life healthcare related problems.
Xtreme machines, a segment that invites all the wild, weird and whacky creations of the skillful roboteers from all parts of the country. Cars run hasty with IC engines and aircrafts perform breathtaking manoeuvres and submarines go to the depths of ocean. In the Full Throttle competition, students will be asked to make a wireless remote controlled machine, powered only by an IC engine, which can race against other opponents on an off-road dirt track with many obstacles. In the Submerge challenge, participants will be asked to make a remote controlled bot, powered only by batteries, which has to navigate through an obstacle course underwater in the shortest time possible.
Aerostrike of Techfest presents two categories of events: Skylark and Boeing IIT National Aeromodelling Competition. In the Skylark category, students will be asked to design a drone of given dimension which can cross the obstacles, carry and hover with the given load. At the Boeing IIT National Aeromodelling Competition, participants will have to design and make a fast, light, wireless remote controlled aircraft (using electric motors only), which can complete the mentioned task while having a maximum payload fraction in the least possible time before landing in the specified zone.
Through Architectonics, Techfest provides a level playing field to all those who would love to give a new dimension to artefacts and architecture. In Skyscraper contest, students will have to design a Chimney using popsicle sticks and fevicol MR adhesive that can sustain the maximum possible horizontal wind load with minimum deflection, satisfying the understated constraints. Further, Through Colonize challenge, Techfest, IIT Bombay in association with Team Shunya, IIT Bombay (only team from india to participate in olympics of solar energy house building i,e Solar Decathlon China) brings in Sustainable Net Positive Energy House Design Competition. Here, participants will design a house that is appropriate for their local climate. In doing so, the designers will face the stated criteria for the house: Simple, Decent, and Affordable.
Technorion competitions are a part of Techfest’s National Outreach Program, which have been conducting various competitions: Mesh Flare, Galactic Trooper, and Quantum Code. These three competitions will be held in five different cities of India.
Techfest, scheduled to be held on 16-18 December 2016 at IIT Bombay Powai Campus, is entirely managed by students of IIT Bombay with a three-tier team structure. The core committee consists of 23 members comprising of 1 Overall Coordinator at the helm and 22 Managers. To participate and for other details on the various competitions and challenges, interested students and candidates should visit the official website of IIT Bombay’ Techfest:
