Session Details: Intra Institutional Idea Competition Hackathon TEKTRA 2K22
Title of the Session : Intra Institutional Idea Competition Hackathon TEKTRA 2K22
Date : 08/12/2022 Duration : 210 mins (10:00 am to 1:30 pm)
Activity Category : IIC Calendar Activity Nature of the Session : Offline
Theme : Innovation and Design Thinking
Expert / Speaker Details:
Name: Mr. Nantha Kumar Rajasekaren Designation: CEO of NervyGrid
Organisation: NervyGrid, Madurai .
Brief about Expert/Speaker:

Mr. Nantha Kumar Rajasekaren is been CEO of NervyGrid and Thanvi Technologies

·         He has experienced as Chief Business Development Officer in Surgical Garments

·         He worked as Co-Founder & CTO of INSES for 1 year 5 months

·         He also worked as Cloud Support Engineer in Webtoall  for  1 year 6 months

He has cleared many international certifications like

·         Cloud Computing with Amazon Web Service

·         Network Security Administrator (NSA)

·         International Workshop On Android Apps Development

·         Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Course

He bagged many awards such as

·         Hall of Fame

·         English Motivator

·         Brand Ambassador

He received the Best Outgoing Student during 2019 batch in B.Sc. Networking Department at SLCS.

Objectives of the activity: 

Ø To conduct various innovative and entrepreneurship-related Hackathon activities to boost the novel ideas of students at Intra Institutional level

Ø To identify the technical talents of the students and to reward the innovations to encourage them.

Ø To enhance the creativity of the students by conducting events like Blog Creation and Poster Making.

Ø To augment the ingenuity of the students by encouraging them to partake in all the events.

Outcome of the activity:

At the end of the  session, the participants  were able to:

1.      Obtain the knowledge of entrepreneurial skills to do startup

2.      Understand the concepts of self learning by participating in technical events like Blog Creation and Poster Making.

3.      Gain the knowledge on how to crack the interview at top level MNC’s company from resource person’s address

4.      Make use of the various latest IT applications available for various sectors.

Key Highlights

A few major points explained by the speaker to the students about Recent Trends in IT Industry:

Ø Encouraged the students to develop entrepreneurial skills

Ø Advised the students to do self learning in both academic and career oriented skills

Ø Explained about the interview techniques to crack the entry level test at top level MNC’s

Ø Suggested the students to learn many new tools & technology

Ø There were 2 technical events conducted namely Blog Creation (11 participants)  and Poster Presentation(8 teams)

Ø In blog creation event, the theme was given to the students a day before for developing an application on “India Vision towards 2040”.  The students created and presented their blog with various innovative ideas like Cleanliness throughout the country, Advanced technology in medicine and Artificial Intelligence in education.

Ø In Poster Presentation event, the theme was given to the students a day before for designing a poster on “Future World in my Perception”.  The students designed many innovative posters by using the tools and templates available in the canvas software tool.

Participants Details:
 Total No. of Student Participation: 123
 Total No. of Staff (Teaching / Non-Teaching) Participation: 5
 YouTube Links: nil
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