SICA – International Chefs Day

South India Chef’s Association – SICA chefs in Madurai have organized International Chefs Day and it is celebrated every year. This year, it was a special year for them, to serve the needy and deprived children ( HIV Positive ). They decided that the children’s want to be happy and enjoy the program and the Association has organized in such a way to meant for this deprived children and was organized in Rio Grande Residency, Madurai. The event includes knowledge sharing session, fun games, poster presentation, dance, magic show and distribution of love through fun filled food items.  Our students of II year nearly ten students and three staff (Mr.C. Sureshkumar, Head of the Department, Mr. P. Anand, and Mr. M. Maheshkumar ) have participated in this program and they serve this children.

The main objective of this International Chef Day celebrated poster presentation on “Food’s for Healthy Heroes”. Around 8 colleges nearly 85 students have participated in this program. Celebrity’s Chefs from various hotel and industrial experts inaugurated this program. Our students (Ms. Surya, Ms. Lavanya, Mr. Kesavamoorthy, Mr. Karan Singhaal, Mr. Murugan)have got second prize and received Silver Certificate for Poster Presentation. Mr. Saran Dass, Mr. Thirumal Raj, Mr. Marudamuthu, Mr. Adiya Uday) have won third prize – Bronze Certificate for Poster Presentation.

Alumnus Interaction

Mr.K.Aravind Kumar (Cell No: 9677881422) , an alumnus of 2009-2012 B.Sc(Computer Science) Batch, who is presently working as a Assistant Manager in Sales, Vodafone Cellular, Madurai, visited our department  and had a interaction with current  II-B.Sc(IT) & II-B.Sc(CS) [2016-2019 Batch].

He asked the students to update themselves in recent technology along with the academic syllabus.

He insisted the students, that they should be energetic, dynamic and active during class hours and never waste the precious time.

He said the value added programs will help them in right way and give more chances for their placements.

He also listed few software companies where they can get their internship in future.

EXTENSION ACTIVITY

The Department of Visual Communication has given Media Support to the “Charity Film Festival & Short Film Competition” a fund raising program for the medical treatment of Cancer Children Organized by  the Meenakshi mission Hospital, Madurai on  03,04 & 05th  November 2017. Our department students have videographed and photographed the entire event. Multicamera technique was used for both video and photo Coverage Rs.30,000 worth of work has done by the department as service.

Students Achievements

Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre, Madurai had conducted a Charity Film Festival and Short film Competition on 3 , 4 and 5th  November 2017 at Madurai Medical College Auditorium with over 700 students in attendance.

Nearly 150 short films from various colleges in the State had nominated for the short film competition.

K.Subasree,  the  final year student of  Visual Communication  won the ‘Best Content Award’ for her short film titled “Cuckoo”.

J.K.Anubhav Krishna,  M.Sc first year student of  Visual Communication  won two awards namely  ‘Special Jury Award’  and  “Best Child Artist Award” for his short film titled “Yellow Rose”.

R.Shanmugapriyan,  M.Sc  final year student of  Visual Communication  won the ‘Best Documentary film Award’ for his Documentary titled “Keeladi”.

Extension Program – Kombadi

The department of Marine Catering and Hotel Management has organized an Extension Program on food habits and hygiene to the Kombadi Village people on 3.11.2017, around 57 village Women’s and 30 students of MC&HM have participated in this program. The department faculty, Mr. Perumal Kannan (Asst. Prof), gave the welcome speech and Mrs. G.S.Subbulakshmi (Asst. Prof) has explained the knowledge of food safety and hygiene through Power Point Presentation. The topic covers the issues of Poor Personal & Food Hygiene, sanitation; Environment issues in our day-to-day life style .Mr. P.Anand, Asst Prof gave Vote of thanks. They all were very happy and satisfied for that program. At last we got feedback from the participants.

Campus Interview – CUB

As a premier institution of Madurai, SLCS continued to enjoy immense confidence of the recruiters for placement for the batch of 2015-2018. Initially the City Union Bank conducted the campus recruitment drive for the third year students of Commerce Department in our college campus on 02.11.2017. Six panel members were from the City Union Bank, Head Office, Kumbakkonam. Around 35 students participated in the recruitment. The recruitment drive consists of essay writing test, On-line aptitude test and personal interview. Each and every student performed well. The recruiters felt happy and also were satisfied about the performance of the students. The department felt really happy that all the students participated with confidence and enthusiasm.

Orientation Programme

Our department of Marine Catering and Hotel Management, have organized orientation programe for the department students on 1.11.2017 at 9.30 a.m. to 11.00 a.m. Our Head, Mr. C.Sureshkumar, have addressed all our students and informed about the College/ Department new rules and regulations, Academic details, Syllabus, Attendance, Internship program, Departmental Activity for the Even semester, performance of the students and the steps to be taken for the weak students, Discipline, to the students, STCW, INDOS, CDC, Outdoor catering etc.

Orientation Programme

On 1st November, 2017 in MBA Hall, Orientation Programme for I, II & III B.Com Students was organized by the Department of Commerce on 01.11.2017. The programme commenced with Prayer followed by the Key note was delivered by Mrs.V.Padmavathy , HOD of Commerce Department of SLCS.  Dr.S.Gurupriya and Ms.B.Shanmugapriya, Asst. Professor conducted the Ice Breaking Session.

Campus Recruitment Training

As Part of Campus Recruitment Training, The Department had given special training for two days from 31-10-2017 to 01-11-2017 to the students who have to be attended the City Union Bank interview, in the three area of specialization which are Communicative English by Mr.Sivakumar, Aptitude by Ms.Vichitra & Subject oriented by Mr.Eswaran.

Orientation programme

An orientation program was conducted on behalf of Computer Science and Information Technology on 1-11-2017. Mrs.N.Anuradha, HOD, Department of Computer Science and IT welcome the gathering and instructed the following things to the student of all first years, second years and third years of our department.

  1. New Subjects for current semester
  2. Subject code
  3. Class teacher/In-charge
  4. Class Representatives
  5. Staff allocation for each subject both lab and theory
  6. Combined classes and classroom for second and third year students
  7. Subject importance and their critical regions
  8. Allocation of Project guides for final years projects
  9. Documents and corresspondance that should be maintained and updated for every week during their internship period.
  10. Subject outcomes to be achieved
  11. Internship and placement for third years
  12. Parents Acknowledgement for attending internships and interviews
  13. Mini-projects for current second year students
  14. Subject /training via Value added courses for all three years
  15. Swimming and driving class schedules
  16. College rules and regulations
  17. Course importance
  18. Mentor –Mentee relationship

Staff members Mr.P.A.Maniram, Mrs.K.P.Maheswari, Mrs.S.NirmalDevi attended the meeting highligheted their subjects’ importance.