Mysore/Mysuru: The Department of Electrical & Electronics, ATMECE, Mysuru, had organised a State-level Virtual Technical Fest — AVAGAMAH — through online platform.

To encourage students to apply technical and logical thinking skills through experiential and participatory learning, a Virtual Hackathon event was conducted on Dec. 4, 2020 as part of the Tech Fest. 

More than 140 participants from various districts of Karnataka joined through online platform and faced four rounds of evaluation. Technical Crossword, Digital System Design, Technical Quiz and Debug the Circuit rounds were held to assess the participants.

After scrutiny, Nouman Ahmed of VVCE, Mysuru, bagged 1st place, A. Varun of ATMECE, Mysuru, bagged 2nd place, Joshua H. Rayapuri of ATMECE and C.S. Sumanth Rao of JSS Academy of Technical Education, Bengaluru, received consolation prize in the event.

To enhance the creative, societal, logical and technical thinking ability in students, ‘Make in Bharat: Innovative Idea Submission Challenge (IIC)’ was organised on Dec. 7, 2020. Proposals were submitted by the teams which was initially screened and the best eight teams were invited for presentation.

The proposal titled “Adjustable Spoon for Parkinson’s Disorder” presented by Joshua H. Rayapuri and M. Dhanyatha, Dept. of EEE, ATMECE, bagged 1st place and the proposal titled “Assistive Tool Kit for Alzheimer’s Patient” presented by Yaseen Ulla Khan and Mohammed Suhail, Dept. of EEE, ATMECE, bagged 2nd place. Both teams were mentored by R. Shreeshayana, Assistant Professor.

“Voting Management”, presented by K. Pavithra, Dept. of CSE, ATMECE, mentored by B. Kiran, Assistant Professor, “Automatic Door Knob Sanitisation” presented by R. Arpitha and P.D. Priyanka, Dept. of EEE, ATMECE, mentored by P. Vinod Kumar, Assistant Professor and “IoT based Hydroponics Cultivation” presented by B.S. Hemanth and K.B. Manjunath, Dept. of EEE, mentored by R. Shreeshayana, Assistant Professor, were awarded consolation prize.