2021-2022

Name of the Event: Aspiring Entrepreneurship Programme
Nature of the Event: Webinar
Date: 04.06.2021
Mode: Online

Report:

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell of CTTE College for Women in collaboration with the ICT Academy organized an“Aspiring Entrepreneurship Programme” on 04th June 2021. This was an introductory webinar for the students who enrolled themselves for Phase I. It was a 4-hour program, divided into 4 sessions, and expert personalities were invited to give an entrepreneurial cum motivational talk to the students. 

Session 01: -MR. SUNIL BORAH

Mr. Sunil Borah, the Senior Trainer of the ICT Academy, was the first person on board. He welcomed the batch of students who sprightly enrolled themselves for the programme. He introduced the audience, to the ICT Academy and its operations and then expressed his gratitude for all the Sponsors of the programme. He then briefly explained the Course’s objective, its stages and the outcome after each level. He concluded his speech by spelling out all the benefits that the students will reap, after finishing the entire course.

Session 02: - V PATTABHI RAM

Mr. V.Pattabhiram, CA, Author and Teacher at Prime Academy, began the session. He took the audience through the meaning of Entrepreneurship and its Types. The most interesting part of his session was, he explained the salient qualities of an entrepreneur by showing pictures of various successful Entrepreneurs. He asked the students to guess and then revealed the Entrepreneur and what qualities he possesses that should be learnt and applied by every to be Entrepreneur. He then replied to the questions of the students and also shared his personal experiences with them. Overall, his session was like an incredible 1st chapter towards learning Entrepreneurship.

Session 03: - MR.RAJ PRABAKAR

Mr. Raj Prabakar, Chief Executive Officer, FYMC was the next person on board. His session was the next level of the previous session. He brought in and expounded more about the Application of the Idea and Beginning of the Business. His session was concerned with How to Move the idea forward, how to consolidate the required resources, how to manage Human Resources, How to Overhaul and Re-Equip the existing business to make it survive the changing environment and so on. After his presentation, he asked the audience to share with him the Business Ideas that are inside them and suggested inputs to make it prosper. Overall, it was a session of Deep Introspection of our Business Ideas.

Session04: - DR R. SUBRAMANIAN

Dr. R.Subramanian, Founder and CEO of MindBiz was the final expert of this Phase I. He briefly explained to the audience about “START-UP INDIA”. The objective was to inform the students about various opportunities available, epically for the procurement of Finance, under this Scheme, proposed by the Government of India. He also showed the trending business startup ideas and encircled through the various options of fund management. This session was a higher-level learning towards beginning a business and choices of Financial Availabilities.

STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVE

The students felt it was a great opportunity for all of them to get to know about Entrepreneurship and the Startups from scratch to the higher-level advanced concepts. They felt the session was comprehensive and packed with all the essential concepts and the knowledge that should be known and understood by all the becoming entrepreneurs. They felt, the session also made them realise their ideas and served them to become future leaders.

Name of the Event: Design Thinking
Nature of the Event: Webinar
Date: 19.06.2021
Mode: Online

Report:

The Entrepreneurship Development Cell of our college in collaboration with IEDP - EDII Hub, University of Madras, jointly organized a webinar on the topic “Design Thinking” on 19th June 2021.

The Resource person of the programme was Mr. Vinoth Malaikani, Incubation Scientist, University College of Engineering, BIT Campus, Anna University, Trichy. He explained the meaning of Design Thinking, detailed its concepts with a lively presentation and made all the tortuous process, very lucid to learn.

He construed the 5 stages of Design Thinking, i.e Empathy, Define, Ideation and its techniques, Prototype and Testing.

He also made the participants go through some case studies and gave them practical exposure. At the end of the session, he gave some tasks for the students to practice, so that they can get more insight into Design Thinking. It was an interactive session with participants clearing their doubts and queries with the resource person. The participants felt that the session was great for them to understand Design Thinking and its techniques, that gave them enough confidence to bloom their Startups.

Name of the Event: Entrepreneurship & Innovation as Career Opportunity
Nature of the Event: Workshop
Date: 07.08.2021 – 14.08.2021
Mode: Online

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7 Day workshop,“Entrepreneurship & Innovation as Career Opportunity” was organized from August 7, 2021 to August 14, 2021. The topics for the workshop were Day 1-Entrepreneurship & Innovation 3600 Perspective, Day 2-An Overview of Digital Entrepreneurship, Day 3-Rural entrepreneurship, Day4-Career Enrichment through Intrapreneurship, Day 5- Scope of Social Entrepreneurship,Day 6- Women Entrepreneurship &Day 7-MSME Schemes for Young entrepreneurs. The objective of the event was to enhance skill or capacity required to initiate Startup, Innovation & Entrepreneurship connected to business ideas,  create Entrepreneurial innovation / product innovation by students, keep them abreast of current issues and trends in businesses and utilize them effectively, enhance skill or capacity relating to creating a business on the internet without the need to invest in physical spaces, to give an idea about some business related to Rural entrepreneurship. The resource persons highlighted their Journey of Entrepreneurship, also made the participants to understand that Entrepreneurship is the ability and readiness to develop, organize and run a business enterprise, along with any of its uncertainties in order to make a profit. They described how entrepreneurship will change, as business and society continue to be transformed by digital technology. MSME Schemes, business ideas and various schemes for starting up company were elaborately explained to the young budding entrepreneurs and also shared the websites link to register on those schemes. The outcome of the event is that the students were able to understand the functions of entrepreneurship, to utilize the best of entrepreneurial opportunities and to explore entrepreneurial leadership and management style. Participants acquired knowledge on the technical requirements and the competitive environment with lots of marketing opportunities. In the digital age, entrepreneurship is now more in demand than ever before. Faculty Members & students from the following Departments B. Com (G), B. Com (CS), B. Com (A&F), BBA, B.A. English, B.Sc. Mathematics & B.C.A participated and the total number of beneficiaries over the 7 days was 546.

Name of the Event: Research, Innovation  and Ranking
Nature of the Event: Webinar
Date: 11.08.2021
Mode: Online

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Resource Persons: Dr. Rajkumar Rajan Singh, Prof. K.Vijay Raghavan, Prof. Rajat Muna, Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Govind Rangarajan, Bhaskar Ramamurthy, Dr. Abhijere, Anitha, Deepak Bagla, Yashraj Wado, Prof. V. Ram Gopal Rao, Ashwin Fernandez, Prof, Rajkumar, K. K. Aggarwal, Dr.Abi, Amit Khariji, Dr.Kevin, V.Ram Gabalra.

Participants: IIC Members

Nature of the Event: Webinar –Youtube live streaming

Purpose of the Event:

• To create awareness about National Education Policy.

• To enhance the students with the knowledge of National Educational Policy.

Highlight of the Event

• The resource person highlighted that NEP 2020 aims to transform India into a vibrant knowledge society.

• Emphasized that NEP 2020 will make a paradigm shift; it will change the way we all think within the institutions and within the departments.

• Explained to ensure the Indian higher education system is ranked as the best in the world, we have institutions focusing on performance improvement.

Outcome of the Event:

• Participants acquired knowledge on the 3 key areas that is Internationalization, Research & Reputation, for improving reputation we need to work together without any division between public and private, the Ministry of Education need to work very closely with the Ministry of external affairs, home affairs and many other bodies to ensure the focus on internalization.

Number of beneficiaries: 120

Name of the Event: EDC & IIC Orientation Programme
Nature of the Event: Orientation
Date: 19.08.2021
Mode: Online

Report:

Centre for Student Development -Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council of C.T.T.E College for Women Organised Orientation Sessions on August 19, 2021 between 4 pm to 5 pm through G-meet and YouTube Live Stream platform. Ms.Dalia Bernadette Lazaro, III B.Com(A&F) and Famidha.U, III B.Com(G) welcomed and introduced the speakers for the orientation sessions. The National Education Policy 2020, approved by the Union Cabinet of India on July 29, 2020, outlines the vision of India’s new education system.

Session I was all about “Orientation on NEP 2020 with specific reference to Entrepreneurship & Innovation”. Dr.Sridevi, Principal, C.T.T.E College for Women who has years of experience and great insight about the topic was the resource person.  The objective of the session is to position and outline the vision of National Education Policy 2020 towards Entrepreneurship and Innovation amidst students and faculty members, as India is in need of employment opportunities and the New Education Policy plays a huge role in the creation of entrepreneurs for which innovations play a lead role. The speaker highlighted the importance of NEP2020 when compared with the other NEPs proposed from 1960 onwards. She also emphasised grooming students with activities towards creativity to be built inside the classroom and by taking a leadership role in campus so as to develop innovative and ethical entrepreneurs in the future. The resource person stressed on the students to be open towards a multidisciplinary learning approach and do Research by taking Internships as emphasised by NEP2020.

Session II was all about the Orientation of the College Action Plan for the Implementation of Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Mrs.Princy Susan Selvakumari, Assistant Professor- Department of Business administration, NISP Convenor & IIC Vice- President was the Resource Person. The objective of the session is to make students understand the essence of Entrepreneurship, support laid by college& faculty members and the resources available to develop budding student entrepreneurs.  The Resource Person Highlighted the scope & Importance of entrepreneurship through motivational stories about successful entrepreneurs and a well-defined action plan as a step towards motivating and developing entrepreneurs from college campus.

The orientation session was planned and organised by student Coordinators of the Centre for Student Development -Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council of C.T.T.E College for Women. Around 98 participants of students & faculties attended the orientation session and benefited (71 students & 27 faculties).

Name of the Event: Smart Hacks 2021-22
Nature of the Event: Quiz
Date: 27.08.2021
Mode: Online

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An Online programming quiz was organized by the EDC & IIC under the Centre for student development in association with Electronics and ICT academy, IIT Kanpur on August 27, 2021. The event was coordinated by Mrs.V.Suganthi, Assistant Professor, Department of computer science. The quiz contest was focused on C & C++ programming. Second and third year students from the department of BCA and Computer Science enthusiastically participated in this event. The students utilized the opportunity to evaluate their knowledge on programming skills. It is a two-phase event in which the first phase focuses on programming topics. The second phase is the final phase which will be a mega finale at IIT, Kanpur. The first phase was an online quiz duration of 25 minutes with 35 questions. The students who have cleared the first phase are eligible to compete in the second phase.

Name of the Event: The Making of an Entrepreneur on World Entrepreneurs Day
Nature of the Event: Special Talk
Date: 27.08.2021
Mode: Online

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Resource Person: Mrs. Geetha Prakash

Participants: CTTE College students.

Nature of the Event:  Special talk.

Purpose of the Event:

• To create awareness about entrepreneurship, innovation and leadership

• To motivate the students through the life story of the Resource person.

• To give an idea about how a real entrepreneur works.

• To brief us about the struggles and problem-solving techniques in Entrepreneurship.

Highlight of the Event: This special talk concentrated on Entrepreneurship and real time work involved in it. The resource person highlighted the barriers that she came across in her Entrepreneurial journey and also narrated how she overcame them in a very lively manner.

Outcome of the Event: The participants were able to interact with an entrepreneur and understood that positive attitude towards life is essential to overcome the ups and downs in Entrepreneurial journey.

Number of beneficiaries: 65 students

Name of the Event: Entrepreneurship Training Program
Nature of the Event: Training Program
Date: 06.09.2021 – 11.09.2021
Mode: Online

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The Entrepreneurship Development Cell of CTTE College for Women in collaboration with the ICT Academy organized the next phase of the Entrepreneurship Training Program. 5 students were selected from EAC(Entrepreneurship Awareness Campaign) to EDP(Entrepreneurship Development Program) under HDFC Aspiring Entrepreneurship Program.

This stage of the training program is for a total of 80 hours - 20 hours of Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) and 60 hours of Self Learning containing Video classes and materials. The 20 hours of Virtual Instructor Led Training (VILT) session for the Entrepreneurship Training Program was undergone by the above five students from 06th of September 2021 to 11th of  September  2021 between 3 pm to 5 pm.

Name of the Event: Canteen Contract Interview
Nature of the Event: Interview
Date: 13.09.2021
Mode: Offline

Report:

• Alumni of CTTE submitted five business proposals to the CFSD to set up a canteen in the college campus.

• On September 13, 2021, all applicants were asked to report for an interview with their distinctive dish.

• The Interview was held in the Centre for Student Development room at 1.30 pm

• Ms.G.Vasanthapriya, B. Com, Batch 2017-2020 was chosen by the panel among all the candidates. Kavuniarisi, Kelvaragusemiya, Egg masala, Buttermilk, Bisibela bath, and sprouts dosa were the dishes prepared by her.

• The interview panel chose the candidate based on food quality, hygiene, nutrition, innovation, flavour, and overall presentation.

Name of the Event: Entrepreneurship Development Programme
Nature of the Event:FDP

Date: 21.09.2021 – 27.09.2021

Mode: Offline

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IEDP HUB-University of Madras, IEDP HUB-Thiyagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and IEDP HUB -Bharathiyar University, Coimbatore together organised a Five Day Faculty development Programme on Entrepreneurship Development Programme for the faculty members of spoke Institutions from September 21, 2021 to September 25, 2021. Mrs. Princy, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Mrs. Jayashree, Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Mrs. Poornima, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Mrs.Amalthy, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry are the active faculty members of Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council Participated in Faculty Development Programme and benefited.

The objective of the faculty development Programme is to educate, train and motivate faculty ambassadors of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Cell, so that the same can be inculcated amidst the student fraternity to create budding entrepreneurs through campus ventures, startups (etc).

The five-day training Programme started with a brainstorming session on Entrepreneurship and campus ventures by Mrs. Rosy, Master Trainer, Entrepreneurship Development & Innovation Institute-TN. Followed by Ms. Sujaya Master Trainer, Entrepreneurship Development & Innovation Institute -TN who gave inputs on how students can be motivated towards entrepreneurship with a discussion on the case studies of the campus ventures which faculty participants had in their college during the second day of the Training Programme. The third day of the training Programme was made very interesting by Mr. Vishal, Master Trainer, Entrepreneurship Development & Innovation Institute -TN. He gave a different perception of Innovation as Invention plus Commercialization. He highlighted commercializing ideas through entrepreneurship ventures. He also explained about the classification of entrepreneurial ventures into MSME’S &IDE (Innovation driven Enterprise) and suggested faculty ambassadors to convert business ideas to IDE. The resource person highlighted case studies of successful innovation. The Fourth day of the faculty development programme started with a discussion session conducted by Mr.Adarsh, MasterTrainer, Entrepreneurship Development & Innovation Institute -TN on the organisation structure of ED cell in colleges of participating faculty members. The discussion gave a clear picture and the resource person also emphasized on the ED cell to be exclusively run only by students in a structured hierarchical manner with the support of faculty coordinators. He explained the role of faculty coordinators of ED cell with a successful startup video presentation of students in a particular college. The Training Programme came to an end with a session of Mrs. Rosy, Master Trainer, Entrepreneurship Development & Innovation Institute -TN, who explored possible ideas and events which can be planned by the ED cell of the college. Faculty Participants were asked to take up an assessment for the five days of the Training Programme through google form. The entire training Programme gave inputs on the role of faculty members as part of Entrepreneurship in motivating and supporting students for entrepreneurial ventures.

Name of the Event: Shaping the Budding Entrepreneur
Nature of the Event: Webinar

Date: 22.09.2021

Mode: Online

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A National Webinar on “Shaping the Budding Entrepreneur” was organized by the Internal Quality Assurance Cell & Department of Business Administration of SSS Jain College for Women in association with Entrepreneurship Development and Innovation Institute –TN Innovation &Entrepreneurship Development Programme, University of Madras Hub

ResourcePersons:

• Session I :  Mr.Selvakumar,(TrainingCoordinator,EDII-TN)

• Session II : Mr. V. Hariharan, (Director and founder of Space Zee,Chennai)

• Session III: Dr.D.T.Roshini(Director,AvidusAcademyofManagement,Chennai)

Participants: 8 students from B. Com (General) & BBA

Nature of the Event: National Seminar.

Purpose of the Event:

• To create awareness about Successful Entrepreneurs.

• To enhance skill or capacity to attain the success in the path way of Entrepreneurship.

• To keep a breast of current issues and problems Entrepreneurs are facing

• To know the idea of how and what is the techniques followed by the startups(OYO, PAYTM, URBANCLAP.)

Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: The resource persons highlighted the concepts of developing and managing a business venture in order to gain profit by taking several risks in the corporate world.

Outcome of the Event: Participants were made clear that success is not gift, it is just hard &smart work. The future belongs to those who learn success is not the destination, it is just a journey on what we all traveling it.

Name of the Event: Hercraft Website

Nature of the Event: MoU Signing

Date: 23.09.2021

Mode: Offline

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The college (CTTE) signed an MOU with Ms. Uma mageshwari J, III B. Com(G) on September 23, 2021. Ms. Uma has designed an E-commerce website named HERCRAFT and it will be her online venture. Through this site, students of CTTE can get an exposure of selling on an online platform.  The E-Commerce website sells products such as Art and Handicraft products and commercial products like Soap, Dishwashing Liquid, Perfumes etc.,

This website intends to:

• create opportunities for students to be sellers.

• enhance students’ skill or capacity of making handicraft products.

• give an idea about online trading to students.

• keep students abreast of current issues and trends in online trade.

• give hands-on experience on the online platform.

Name of the Event: E-Leader Workshop
Nature of the Event: Workshop
Date: 29.09.2021 – 01.10.2021
Mode: Offline

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“E-Leader Workshop” organised by EDII – TN for the spoke institution that comes under the University of Madras 

Resource Person:

• Session I: Mrs Rosy Fernando, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN)

• Session II: Mr. Adarsh Mittal, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN)

• Session III: Mr. Vishal, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN)

Participants: 2

Purpose of the Event:

• To create awareness about E-Cell

• To gain knowledge about E-cell Pyramid and E-cell structure.

• To know about different types of leaders.

• To motivate students to become Successful Entrepreneur.

• To make students understand the role of the Entrepreneur.

Highlight/ Conduct of the Event:

• The resource person highlighted the importance of E-cell. He also focused on the Entrepreneurship Leader Styles and explained  how to implement Entrepreneurship skills in college E-Cell through various activities.

Outcome of the Event:

• Participants were made clear that entrepreneurial leadership will be central to their growth. Developing leadership skills helps develop talent, roll out new products and services, deliver efficiency and gain market share. Entrepreneurial leaders are also extremely adaptable and capable of learning from their mistakes.

Name of the Event: Faculty-Students Meeting

Nature of the Event: Meeting  

Date: 29.09.2021

Mode: Offline

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A meeting was organized and a discussion was made to motivate the student coordinators. A total of 8 students and 1 faculty member were present during the meeting.

Name of the Event: International Virtual Women Entrepreneurs Summit on start-up Challenges and Opportunities

Nature of the Event: Webinar

Date: 30.09.2021

Mode: Online

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Resource Person: Mrs. PARVEEN SIKKANDAR - Director, Damini The Artisans of India, Chennai, Dr. TANYA, Founder, Amtan Medical Group, Australia, Mrs. NUSRATH SYED, Co-Founder, Q Group, Dubai, UAE & Mrs. PRABHA RAGHAVA, Tours Ltd, USA.

Participants: Ms. Uma Mageshwari, III B.Com (General)

Purpose of the Event:

• To create awareness about Start-up Challenges & Opportunity.

• To enhance skill or capacity relating to Women entrepreneurship.

• To give an idea about Incubation Centre.

• To keep abreast of current issues and trends related to Start-up challenges and Schemes.

• To give awareness on Women entrepreneurship.

Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: This Webinar highlighted the importance of Women entrepreneurship and Start-up Challenges & Opportunity.

Outcome of the Event: We were made clear about the opportunities available for Start-up and the benefits enjoyed by the women entrepreneurs

Name of the Event: Signing of Canteen Agreement

Date: 01.10.2021

Mode: Offline

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Ms. G. Vasantha Priya college Alumna (Batch 2017- 2020) signed an Agreement with our college, Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College For Women to run the Alumna canteen. The agreement was signed with the mutual consent of both parties. First party Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women and Second party G. Vasantha Priya, CTTE Alumna.

The Agreement was signed on October 01, 2021 with the blessings of the Principal, and CFSD President. As per the terms and conditions, the college provides the space to set up the canteen along with electricity and water supply and all the other arrangements to be made by Vasantha Priya( Second party).

Name of the Event: Student Coordinators Meeting

Nature of the Event: Meeting

Date: 07.10.2021

Mode: Offline

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A brief discussion on organizing the inauguration Techtaught Pvt. Limited, a one-week company run by students. A total of 8 students were present during the meeting.

Name of the Event: Orientation Program for I years B.SC- Physics, Maths, Chemistry, Computer Science & BCA

Nature of the Event: Orientation

Date: 07.10.2021 & 08.10.2021

Mode: Offline

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The CFSD Orientation Program for Science Departments - B.Sc (Physics), B.Sc (Chemistry), B.Sc(Mathematics), B.Sc. Computer Science and BCA  was organised on October 7&8,2021. The aim of this programme is to orient students on the activities organised by CFSD (IIC&EDC). President Dr.Malarvizhi gave a broad view of IIC. She highlighted that the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India has established an “Innovation Cell “with the purpose of systematically fostering the culture of innovation in all Higher Education Institutions across the country. She also mentioned that IIC has emerged as a sustainable and scalable model for promoting innovation with HEIs and the efforts of these IIC Institutes can be seen as an impactful contribution towards making the country’s innovation and start-up ecosystem more vibrant and dynamic. Mrs.P.Princy,  Vice President explained the objectives and importance of EDC which plays a major role in creating Entrepreneurs on the college campus. The CFSD provides skill-based certificate courses for the students learn to make products and sell the same in the Stu-Bazaar. The students can also run  Aavin parlor in the college campus by investing as an entrepreneur and share profits. Uma Maheshwari IIC Student Co-ordinator spoke on the initiative taken up by her to start an E-Commerce website (Her Crafts)to sell all the products. Nearly 70 students participated and gained thorough knowledge about the activities organised by CFSD (IIC&EDC).

Name of the Event: “Doll making competition”

Nature of the Event: Competition

Date: 11.10.2021

Mode: Offline

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Centre for Student Development -Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council of C.T.T.E College for Women Organised Doll Making Competition for all UG and PG students on the occasion of Navaratri on October 11, 2021 between 10.30 am-12.00 noon in Lecture Hall of the College. The objective of the Programme is to bring out the artistic skills of the students. Seven Teams from the different departments participated in the competition. Participants were informed to use only eco-friendly products to make their dolls. Each participant was allotted one and half an hour time duration to complete their dolls. Dr. Sudha Srikanth, Placement Officer & Soft Skill Trainer of the college was the Judge for the event. The judgement criteria for the competition were Creativity, Eco-Friendliness, Relevance to the theme, Finishing and No. of Dolls Made within the allotted time.

The winners of the competition were Anandhi.A and Divya.L from II BBA won the first prize, Swarnamalya. S and Pooja. S from III B. Com(A&F) won the Second Prize, Yamini.D and Rakshitha.R from II B. Com(G) B section won the third prize. The winners were appreciated and the prize-winning dolls were exhibited in the student bazaar for selling.

Name of the Event: TechTaught Private Limited

Nature of the Event: One Week Company run by Students

Date: 18.10.2021 – 01.11.2021

Mode: Offline

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The Eight Student Coordinators of the Centre for Student Development has initiated the Tech Taught Private Limited. Tech Taught Private Limited was inaugurated by Principal, Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth College for Women on 18/10/2021 (9.30 PM). By running the Tech Taught Private Limited, we got to know about the formation of a company, the scope to develop Entrepreneurial skills, how to work as a team and Communication skills. Tech Taught Private Limited was inaugurated by Dr.S.Sridevi, Principal of Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women and Dr. R. Meenakshi, Vice-Principal of Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women on 18/10/2021.

Name of the Event: Canteen Inauguration

Nature of the Event: Inauguration

Date: 22.10.2021

Mode: Offline

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The inauguration of the canteen ‘Korner Café’ was done by Vice Principal & Head of the Department Dr. R. Meenakshi . The canteen will be run by the Alumna of our college 2017-2020 batch. The alumna canteen will be under the guidance of CFSD. 05 Faculty members and 05 students were present during the inauguration.

Name of the Event: The Road Less Travelled

Nature of the Event: Career Guidance Workshop

Date: 26.10.2021 

Mode: Offline

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The main purpose of the entrepreneurship & Innovation programme is to create First Generation Women Entrepreneurs by imbibing entrepreneurial qualities and motivating them to start their own enterprise. The guest speaker highlighted that Entrepreneurs play a key role in the economy, using the skills and initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bring good new ideas to market. He also said that Entrepreneurship will be successful in taking on the risks of creating a startup and is rewarded with profits, fame, and continued growth opportunities. Participants were made clear that entrepreneurs create a firm to realize their idea, with aggregate capital and labor in order to produce goods or services for profit. Entrepreneurs create social change. They break tradition with unique inventions that reduce dependence on existing methods and systems, sometimes rendering them obsolete. A total of 100 students benefited by this workshop.

Name of the Event: Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat

Nature of the Event: Launch of quiz-based gaming app

Date: 01.11.2021 

Mode: Offline

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Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat initiative of the Government of India aims to celebrate the Unity in Diversity of Bharat and further strengthen the fabric of traditionally existing emotional bonds between the people of our nation. The Ministry of Education, Govt. of India in association with All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Nazara Technologies Limited launched a new quiz-based game to further promote the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat mission. The EBSB Quiz game is targeted toward children and youngsters of Bharat for helping them learn more about our different regions, states, culture, national heroes, monuments, traditions, tourist locations, languages, geography, demographic, history, topography, etc. by answering the quizzes in these categories. This online program was launched on November 1, 2021 at 12.30 p.m. through YouTube Live Streaming link. Hon'ble Union Education Minister, Shri Dharmendra Pradhan was the Chief guest on the occasion.  148 Students from B.sc computer science and BCA attended the event through online mode.

Name of the Event: Entrepreneurial Journey

Nature of the Event: Bizz Talk

Date: 02.11.2021 

Mode: Offline

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The program aims to inspire and enable students to start their businesses and facilitate them in pursuing their careers in entrepreneurship confidently. The speaker enlightened the students on her entrepreneurial journey and emphasized that a unique idea can play a significant role in starting a business. As a result of her ingenious idea, she established Some More Foods Pvt Ltd, which produces organic millet-based foods free from additives and preservatives. She also suggested that in order to build a business empire, young minds should be imbued with a passion for what they do. Participants clearly understood that entrepreneurship is a continuous learning process, and they must actively participate in the process of studying and analysing the market to establish and run their business in the most effective way. The Total no. of beneficiaries is 85.

Nature of the Event: National Education Day

Date: 25.11.2021 

Mode: Offline

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Importance of updating with contemporary knowledge and skill related to entrepreneurship.

The program aims to inspire and enable students to update their knowledge in Digital Marketing. The speaker enlightened the students on different types of Digital Marketing Techniques and how to start a new business. He also explained the strategies involved in this digital ERA. Participants clearly understood the skills required to conduct online research and research on online markets, as well as in identifying, assessing and selecting digital market opportunities.

Number of beneficiaries: 100

Name of the Event: Problem Solving & Ideation

Nature of the Event: Workshop

Date: 30.11.2021 

Mode: Offline

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Purpose of the event:

• How to become a successful unique entrepreneur.

• Youngsters can also think differently and introduce new ideas to the society.

• How to tackle their hurdles and explore more ideas

• To recreate waste materials into useful things for the human needs.

• To bring awareness to youngsters, important role of their life and society, scope of becoming an entrepreneur.

The resource person divided the students into groups and were asked to choose a problem statement and come out with possible solutions for it in the form of an innovative product.  Participants had clear and brief idea of how to recreate from waste materials, how to solve/ face hurdles in the life of an entrepreneur and to reach success. A total of 35 students benefited by the programme.

“FOCUS ON SUCCESS, NOT THE OBSTACLES “.

Name of the Event: Maheela Shanivaar

Nature of the Event: Saturday bazaar

Date: 04.12.2021 

Mode: Offline

Report:

The Centre for Student Development (EDC & IIC) organized Saturday Bazaar to encourage the students to put up stalls and develop their entrepreneurial skills. Different students from different departments came up with a team and displayed their stalls.

Objectives:

• To gain Entrepreneurial experience and enhance marketing skills.

• To get experience in managing customer relations.

Participants: Total of 17 teams participated. Students of B.Sc. Chemistry, B.Com. CS, BCA, B.Sc. CS, B.Sc. Psychology, BBA, B.Com. General.  200 + students benefitted from the event.

Outcome of the Event: The Participants were exposed to real time business scenario and gained profits from the stalls.

Name of the Event: Think Differently

Nature of the Event: A Students’ programme on sharing of ideas

Date: 08.12.2021

Report:

The purpose of the event is to enhance the creativity of students and also to generate ideas.

Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: Problem -solving activity done by the students

Outcome of the Event:

• The Participants interacted with each other and came up with solutions for the problems.

• They also shared their ideas and suggestions for developing an app for the college.

Number of beneficiaries: 112 students.

Name of the Event: Ideation Competition

Nature of the Event: Competition

Date: 09.12.2021

Report:

The purpose of the event:

• To generate new ideas in student’s mind.

• To solve the problems in current situations.

• This competition helps students to boost up their critical thinking skills.

Highlights Conduct of the Event:

• The Judge interacted with the students, suggested a few improvisations

• Students defended their new ideas for the questions posted by the judges

Outcome of the Event:

• Students came up with new ideas to the current societal issues through the competition.

Number of Beneficiaries:  27 members

Name of the Event: “Entrepreneurship skill, attitude and behaviour development”

Nature of the Event: Workshop

Date: 11.12.2021

Report:

The purpose of the event is to develop the entrepreneur skills, behavior, and attitude.

Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: 

Chief guest Mrs. Suganya Sri Venkatesh Director, BG Future School, Dhrona India Academy & MBG Shakthi-Health and Wellness, shown the PowerPoint presentation and explained about the different entrepreneurs. Example: Apple – Steve Jobs, Tesla – Elon Musk etc., She also talked about her own journey like how she became an entrepreneur and she also motivated the students to become an entrepreneur. She also explained about the business which is in trend. Mrs. Suganya Sri Venkatesh also told us that we can take our business to social media for advertising and how to promote our products.  At last, the chief guest concluded by telling how to overcome the obstacles to become a successful entrepreneur.

Outcome of the Event:

• The Participants interacted with the chief guest, and they came to know about the entrepreneur skills, attitude, and behavior.

• Participants also came up with different ideas and shared them with the chief guest.

Number of beneficiaries: 47 Students.

Day 1: 15/12/21

Topic: Idea to Enterprise

Resource Person: 

Dr T.Pavan Kumar,  

Senior Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Dr.T.Pavan Kumar, Senior Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhuvaneswar was the resource person on Day 1 elaborated on the methods of identifying the problem, discovering the solutions, exploiting them as an opportunity, and thereby creating job opportunities to resolve unemployment issues in India. He gave an overview of Intellectual property rights and explained the significance of patented inventions. He also stated that there is a high percentage of job satisfaction, happiness, freedom, and independence in entrepreneurship when compared with employment.

Day 2: 16/12/21

Topic: Rural Technologies for large societal benefit

Resource Person: 

Dr. Snehasish Behera,

Chief Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Dr. Snehasish Beheragave detailed information on Rural Technologies available for large societal benefits.

He highlighted the technologies designed and developed by CSIR-IMMT such as natural draft and forced draft biomass operated dryers, biomass maize dryer, thermoelectric and solar box type cookstoves, biomass bakery oven, terafil water purification systems etc. The improved GVK series cookstoves were distributed to rural villages in India and received positive feedback from rural families and communities including Anganwadis.

Day 3: 17/12/21

Topic: Rural entrepreneurship development from tech transfer expert’s view

Resource Person: 

Dr Ravi Pandey, 

Research Establishment Officer, IIT, Kanpur

Dr Ravi Pandey, Research Establishment Officer, IIT Kanpur, enlightened the participants with his knowledge on Rural Entrepreneurship Development. He showed several examples in his presentation to strongly support the statement,” entrepreneurship or emergence of modern technology should not just focus on financial turnover but should have a positive impact on society". He explained about the startup CD SPACE founded by an alumnus of IIT Kanpur. The drones had wide application in supplying medical aid for hospitals in hilly regions and mountains. He elaborated on the seed sowing boot developed by IIT Kanpur to help the farmers with less manpower.

He played a video demonstrating how flowers from temples were utilised to make products like incense sticks. Another such example which he showed to support the wealth from waste concept was the production of organic plates from stubble which usually cause pollution by burning.

Day 4: 18/12/21

Topic: Waste to Wealth: Technologies for agricultural sector/entrepreneurship

Resource Person:

Dr. Manish Kumar,  

Principal Scientist,  CSIR- IMMT,  Bhubaneshwar, Odisha

Dr. Manish Kumar,gave deep insight on the techniques to become a smart entrepreneur by turning the huge agriculture and other waste produced every day into profit-making products. The resource person reported that over 75% of waste generated in India is recyclable, but only 30% is recycled.  He also said that waste to wealth has great business and entrepreneurial opportunities. The speaker stated that proper utilization of Agro waste will lead to sustainable development and the government policymakers also consider waste to wealth for the environment and economic planning. The guest speaker emphasized the significance of filing patents for innovative ideas to start up a business. 

Day 5: 19/12/21

Topic: Inspiring Innovations for Societal Development

Resource Person: 

Dr Kapil Arya, 

Senior Scientist, CSIR- IPU, New Delhi

Dr Kapil Arya,   highlighted that India has made commendable progress so far, but there are still many challenges facing the country that hinders India's Development. This could be solved with the practice of societal innovation. Social innovation is said to be a new form of thinking to solve social problems and this focuses on the ideas and the solutions that offer efficient, sustainable and positive social change that creates social value. In order to utilize its scientific strength and meet the expectations of the country, CSIR has a dynamic network of 37 national laboratories in India which works on different societal fields like agriculture including medicinal and aromatic plants, disaster management, farm machinery, healthcare, infrastructure, leather processing, potable water etc.

Day 6: 20/12/21

Topic: Terafil Technology and Entrepreneurship around

Resource Person:

Dr Debabrata Singh,

Senior Scientist, CSIR-IMMT, Bhuvaneshwar, Odisha

Dr D Singh emphasized on producing efficient and need based devices locally by the youth of the nation. He explained how the Terafil Water filter disc is manufactured, how the components of this disc – sand, saw dust and pottery clay – work as filters and how it’s production is cost effective.

The speaker also told in detail, how this technology is taught to others and thereby making many people to venture into this field. This simple know how and it’s low cost has attracted many people to this field.

Day 7: 21/12/21

Topic: Support Schemes for Entrepreneurs

Resource Person:

Prof V. Swapna,

Associate faculty, NIMSME, Hyderabad

Prof Swapna gave a clear and detailed explanation on schemes like the Prime Minister Employment Generation Program [PMEGP] and also explained the government portal of PMEGP and illustrated the process of online application. The EDP programs that are being developed by PMEGP for entrepreneurs were also highlighted. The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise [MSME] and its Schemes like design scheme, Incubator scheme, IPR scheme, Loan manufacturing scheme etc were explained by mentioning its functioning and the services offered by them. The e-portal of MSME was explored and its uses were described.

Nearly 865 participants across the nation benefited from this workshop.

Name of the Event: Financial Literacy Campaign – SBI for women empowerment

Nature of the Event: Financial Literacy Campaign

Date: 10.01.2022

Mode: Online

Report:

Centre for Student Development – Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council of C.T.T.E college for women & Departments of Accounting & Finance and Business Administration in association with State Bank of India organized Financial Literacy campaign- SBI for women empowerment on January 10, 2022, between 10.00 am to 11.00 am through G- Meet and YouTube live stream platform.

• The resource person Mrs. Sujatha Priyadarshini – M.Sc. Psychology, CAIIB/ IAIIB SME certification course in IIBF. Working with the State Bank of India Perambur branch as Chief manager.

• The resource person started the campaign by asking what is women empowerment?

• Mrs. Sujatha shared the PowerPoint Presentation and started to explain the first step of being financially independent by opening a savings account

• She educated about the documents needed to open an account

• Besides these, she also explained about the importance of savings and wise spending.

• In addition, she also talked about wealth creation, goal-oriented plans etc.,

• Furthermore, she gave a clear idea about short, medium, and long-term assets

• Finally, she also gave a brief description about the effect of compounding, Government sponsored schemes and stand-up India scheme and SBI global ED – vantage scheme

• She ended the session by answering all the questions raised by the participants in the campaign. 

• Number of beneficiaries from the event were 150 students. 

Name of the Event: Building Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Educational Institutions

Nature of the Event: E- Symposium

Date: 11.01.2022 & 12.01.2022

Mode: Online

Report:

Panel Discussion 1:

On 11th Jan 2022, the Inaugural session happened from 10.30-12.30. From 1.30 to 2.00, there was a keynote address by Shri Sridhar Vembu, Founder of ZOHO Corporation.

Purpose of the Event:

• To give a brief about the innovation.

• To brief us about Innovation, human values and Sustainability in real life and how it plays an important role in our life.

• To give hands-on experience about the work, roles and responsibilities of the Entrepreneur.

Outcome of the Event:

•  And our new education national policy also talks about inculcating human values.

•  We get to know that innovation is the bloodstream today.

Panel Discussion 2:

Purpose of the Event:

• To give a brief about the Startup practices

• To brief us about IBest Innovation and Start-up Practices in HEIs.

Outcome of the Event:

• Every lean startup's path is different, but all of them will go through three stages: 1) problem/solution fit, 2) product/market fit, and 3) growth stage

Panel Discussion 3:

Purpose of the Event:

• To inspire the youth and the factors helping them to take entrepreneurship as a journey.

• To distinguish between innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Outcome of the Event:

• The importance of proper Communication between industries and educational institutions.

• The funds are from the both Central and State Governments.

• Industry and Academy are the major stakeholders in investing the innovative ideas by student entrepreneurs.

• Most of the current affairs about the Research and Development innovative project progress have been shared.

Panel Discussion 4:

Purpose of the Event:

• To brief about Schools, Innovation, Games and Curriculum

Outcome of the Event:

• We were able to meet a realistic example of an entrepreneur and understood that there were ups and downs in the Entrepreneurial journey.

Name of the Event: Orientation Session on IIC 4.O

Nature of the Event: Webinar

Date: 24.01.2022

Mode: Online

Report:

Purpose of the Event:

• To orient the participants on the activities to be conducted for the year 2021-22.

Outcome of the Event:

• The participants got a clear idea about the various new features and structures added in the IIC Portal. Mr. Dipan also explained how to involve and join nearby non IIC institutions and score points.

Participants: 06 faculty members & 200 students.

Name of the Event: UNOM-EDII Hub- Design Thinking Workshop

Nature of the Event: Workshop

Date: 16.02.2022 – 18.02.2022

Report:

Date:16/02/2022
Session – I

Why products fail ?

• Resource Person: Mr. Vishal, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN) 

• Participants: All the College students.

• Nature of the Event: Workshop.

• Purpose of the Event: 

To create awareness about design thinking.
To give the overall hierarchy about that.
To give the knowledge about  Product failure.

• Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: The resource person explained that “What is design thinking ?”

• Outcome of the Event: Participants were made clear about what is the cause of product failure.

• Number of beneficiaries: Above 100 members.

Date: 17/02/2022
Session – II

How to implement design thinking in various services sectors ?

• Resource Person: Mrs Rosy Fernando, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN) 

• Participants: All the College students

• Nature of the Event: Workshop .

• Purpose of the Event:

To create awareness about services sectors.
To known about our Design thinking in services sectors. 

• Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: The resource person focused on services sectors.

• Outcome of the Event: Participants were made clear about how to be creative in design thinking.

• Number of beneficiaries: Above 100 members.

Date:18/02/2022
Session – III

How to make Entrepreneurs in campus with the help of design thinking?

• Resource Person: Mr. Vishal, (Training Coordinator, EDII-TN) 

• Participants: All the College Students.

• Nature of the Event: Workshop.

• Purpose of the Event: 

To find and solve problems.
To show the business products with simple idea .
To motivate a student to become a Successful Entrepreneur.
To keep educated about Entrepreneurship development.

• Highlight/ Conduct of the Event: The resource person motivated us to be critical thinker.

• Outcome of the Event: Participants were made clear about what is design thinking.

• Number of beneficiaries: 3(BCA, BBA, B.Sc Chemistry)

Name of the Event: Field Visit-Sri Sai Ram Hair Industries
Nature of the Event: Field Visit
Date: 23.02.2022

Report:
The Center for Student Development (EDC & IIC) organized a Field visit for BBA students on February 23, 2022 to Sri Sai Ram Hair Industries, Manali New Town, Chennai-103.  The objective of this field visit is to make the students identify the real-time problems prevailing in the industry and to give innovative solutions and to provide them an opportunity to learn practically the working methods through interactions with workers, managers and entrepreneurs.  Around 44 students visited the industry. The students gained practical knowledge on how to produce and market products. Students learned how theoretical concepts were put into action.

Hair Wig manufacturing Process

Stage 1 - Procurement:

• Sri Sai Ram Industries is procuring the hair through auctioning from the different temples and bringing that to the factory located in Manali New Town. 

Stage 2 - Sorting:

• In the first step, the workers detangle the hair and make it as a single straight hair strand and in this sorting step, the employees are removing the gray hair, brown hair, lice, nits and damaged hairs. This process is done using     a wooden detangling hair brush.

• After the sorting, hair undergoes a stitching process. Stitching is done both manually and using a tailoring machine.

Washing:
After the stitching, hair moves to the washing process at least 2-3 times.

Coloring:
Hair Coloring of Wig is done by Sri Sai Ram Hair Industries outside the Factory.

Machine and Hand-made Wigs:

         The Handmade wigs are stitched by taking 2 individual hairs. They're stitched on the net to make hair wigs. Hand-made hair wigs are tough to work with, it takes at least 5 days to complete a wig.

Problems Identified:

• Workers are undergoing severe eye pain and headache as they have to strain their eyes while making handmade hair wigs.

• Workers hurt their fingers during the detangling process. There is no first aid box kept in factory.

• Employees are paid less. They are asked to work for long hours.

• Majority of the workers in the factory are women. There is no creche in the workplace.

• There are no proper seating arrangements for the workers. They were given wooden chowki to sit and work.

• Work atmosphere is not hygienic.

• Employees were not given sufficient interval breaks.

• There is no proper lighting and ventilation.

Name of the Event: National Science Day Departments of Basic Sciences
Date: 25.02.2022 – 28.02.2022

Report:

To commemorate the discovery of the Raman effect by Indian Physicist Sir. C. V. Raman, National Science Day is observed every year on the 28th of February. On this occasion, the Departments of Basic Science (Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry) in association with the Centre for Student Development – Institution’s Innovation Council of our College organized activities in the schools in and around Chennai from February 25, 2022, to March 1, 2022.  The college students demonstrated the process of scientific investigation which helped the school students to develop a better understanding of concepts in Basic Sciences. A total of 1000 students from fifteen schools in and around Chennai benefited from this activity.

Objective:

To promote the understanding of basic science (Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry) concepts among young minds through observations and experiments.

The following concepts were presented to the students through demonstrations and models:

Department of Mathematics

1. Mathematics behind Brihadeeswara Temple Model

2. General application of Mathematics - Games

Department of Physics

1. Electromagnetic Induction & Applications (PPT, Demo)

2. Applications of Electronic components - Body Touch Sensor (Demo)

3. Charging and discharging of capacitor (Demo)

4. Electrostatics (Demo)Antigravity

5. Ancient Seismograph

6. Water level Indicator

7. Physics in designing of bridges

8. Applications of Center of mass in daily life

9. Games - Electromagnetic buzzer game 

Department of Chemistry

1. Dyes

2. Super Absorbent Polymers

3. Water Analysis

4. Soap Preparation

5. Rock Candy

6. Paper Recycling

7. Aroma around us.

Details of Schools visited:

• Grace Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Peravallur

• St. Mary's Matriculation Boys Higher Secondary School, Perambur

• Bentinck Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Vepery

• Children's Paradise Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Padianallur.

• St. Joseph Matric Higher Secondary School, Padianallur

• St. Mary's Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Redhills

• Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Perambur

• Government Higher Secondary School, MKB Nagar

• Vivekananda Vidyalaya, Tiruvottiyur

• St. Francis Xavier Anglo Indian School, Broadway

• Sufa Matriculation School, Muthamizh Nagar

• Dr. Radhakrishnan Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Kodungaiyur

• Lourdes Girls Higher Secondary School, No 86/305, Paper Mills Road, Perambur 

• St. Mary's Matriculation Girls' Higher Secondary School

Name of the Event: ED Awareness Program

Nature of the Event: Awareness Programme
Date: 02.03.2022
Mode: Online

Report:

The outcome of the activity:
Key Highlights :

It was very useful for us to know about KVIC objectives, Central Palmgur and Palm products Institute – Khadi and Village Industries Commission, stipendiary training, non-stipendiary training, all programs, and processes.  Every program was explained clearly. The  basic requirements and procedure for getting  loan were also explained by the resource person.  He  also  briefed about the Courses and Certification.

Participant details
Total No. of Student participation: 55
Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation:  04

Name of the Event: Orientation on IOT Projects
Nature of the Event: Orientation
Date: 03.03.2022

Report:

The welcome address was delivered by A.Sangavi 2 nd year B.Com(general) a student member of CFSD. The resource person Mrs.Mary Catherine explained about smart homes, smart cities, smart gardens. She explained about sensors

• Temperature Sensors

• Smart Thermostats.

• Light Sensors.

• Motion Sensors.

• Water Leak/Freeze Sensors.

• Window and Door Sensors. 

• Video Doorbell.

• Weather Sensors.

• Smart Smoke

• CO Sensors.

and these are the major sensors used for the smart home. She explained a lot of uses of these sensors and explained how the sensor is used in projects also. She showed some real-time videos. https://youtu.be/bANfnYDTzxE

She divided the participants into groups and involved them in generation of new project ideas. At last, students also came up with some ideas. She explained the Smart India Hackathon. Finally, the session ended with vote of thanks by A.Sangavi 2 nd year B.Com(general) a student member of CFSD.

Participant details

•  Total No. of Student participation: 120

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation:  3

Name of the Event: Mental Health &Gender Sensitisation
Nature of the Event: Conference
Date: 07.03.2022 – 09.03.2022

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights: The various speakers of the three day international conference emphasized the comprehensive role of mental health in breaking gender stereotypes and accepting a gender-neutral society in terms of providing opportunities. The barriers arising due to gender discrimination was deliberated and the ways to enhance the living standards of individuals by reducing gender bias was also discussed.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 518

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 20

Name of the Event: Magalir Sandhai

Nature of the Event: Sports Day Stall

Date: 11.03.2022

Report: 

Key Highlights:  The Participants were exposed to real-time business scenario and gained profits from the stalls. The Students gained knowledge about buying, selling and marketing activities. And of course, they got to know about the feasibility of their own business ideas.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation  : 50

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 04

Name of the Event: Process design & Development
Nature of the Event: Webinar
Date: 16.03.2022

Report:

Key Highlights: The resource person explained the importance of product design and about its objectives. Product and services design is based on the customer feedback and requirements of the markets. And she illustrated the webinar theme by presenting the activities of her college. She explained the 11 steps of process design for potato chips. And most importantly, she explained the beneficiaries of different funds and schemes like, Needs and Unemployed Youth Employment Generation Programme (UYEGP). 

Participant details 

• Total No. of Student participation: 52

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: Field Visit- IITM Incubation Centre
Nature of the Event: Field Visit
Date: 19.03.2022

Report:

Key Highlight : Members of the Center of Student Development - Institution’s Innovation Council and Entrepreneurship Development Cell visited the IIT Madras Incubation Cell. Incubation associates explained the procedure to apply for incubation and the support rendered by Incubation Cell to help entrepreneurs to establish their business. Incubators of IITM Research Park gave brief overviews about how they translated their innovative ideas into products and services that are commercially viable at present. Students gained knowledge on Incubation, Startups, and jobs created by them. This Incubation Cell visit created an instinct among the students towards innovation, to start up a business,  to face the socio-economic challenges of our nation. Students also got deep insights on how to protect their Intellectual property rights. By interacting with the incubators and incubation associates, students were able to clear up their doubts. Around 36 students visited IITM Incubation Cell.

IIT Madras incubated Company

The following were the companies incubated by IITM Incubation Cell,

Yali Mobility Pvt Ltd is an IIT Madras incubated company that focuses on delivering affordable solutions for person with locomotor disabilities. Currently, they are proposing to design, develop, and manufacture an electrically powered three-wheeler which will specifically be for wheelchair users, a person with locomotor disability, and the elderly.

Earthen Tunes

Founded by the alumni of the National Institute of Design-Ahmedabad, Earthen Tunes is a social enterprise presently trying to build a better India for the future. Earthen Tunes is presently being incubated by the Rural Technology and Business Incubator at IIT-Madras. Earthen Tunes produced shoes for the farmers in wool.

Stella Apps
They digitize & optimize Milk Production, Milk Procurement & Cold chain Management through the SmartMoo platform (Full Stack IoT solution) which helps dairy farmers and cooperatives maximize profits while minimizing effort. Currently, the SmartMoo platform & suite of apps touch over two billion liters of milk annually. SmartMoo IoT Platform is the first step towards creating measurable value for all stakeholders including farmers. It provides measurable data for cattle insurance. The SmartMoo Cloud is capable of supporting data arising out of tens of millions of liters of milk through the milk production, procurement and cold chain flow across millions of farmers.

FIB SOL
FIB-SOL Life Technologies provides lightweight Agri inputs to promote eco-friendly farming. We aim to ensure sustainable livelihood to the farmer. High-end biotechnological processes such as encapsulation are harnessed to achieve the same.

Kite
Knowledge integration for technology enrichment. Facilitate skill development and providing connectivity & knowledge integration.

Modulus Housing

Modulus envisions to re-imagine temporary structures. Fold-able cabin is a flagship product from Modulus Housing.

GUVI
GUVI (named as an acronym of Grab Your Vernacular Imprint) is an online platform to learn computer programming based in India. It offers free and paid coding courses to students and working professionals in Indian languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Tamil, and in English.

Participant details

•  Total No. of Student participation: 36

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: Orientation on Preparation of Business Model Canvas
Nature of the Event: Orientation
Date: 21.03.2022

Report:

Key Highlights: The Participants clearly understood the needs and steps for the preparation of the business model canvas.

In the words of Steve Blank, “Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable Business model ”

Dr.S.Gayathry mam explained the 9 important factors which we should keep in mind when drafting a business model canvas.

She gave an introduction to those 9 important factors:

• Key Partners

• Key Resources

• Customer segment

• Customer Relationship

• Value Proposition

• Revenue stream

• Cost structure

• Channels

• Key Activities

 After the introduction, Mam asked the participants to come up with Team Names, Business idea and Business name while coming to the Business model canvas workshop which is planned on 26 March, 2022.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 28

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 5

Name of the Event: “Business Model Canvas”
Nature of the Event: Workshop
Date: 26.03.2022

Report:

Key Highlights: The Students participated in this workshop well trained on how to prepare a Business Model Canvas.

Following the orientation event, Dr.S.Gayathry mam detailed the important factors based on which business model canvas should be prepared. After explaining the important factors, she asked the participants to prepare a business model canvas using their business idea. She conducted a competition on that. On 21st March itself she asked the participants to prepare the team and business names and ideas. Students were separated into 5 teams. Each team consisted of 3-4 people. Team is given with the Business Model Canvas and some sticky notes and were asked to present their business idea in the given canvas. 5 teams came up with their own business ideas and presented it.
Team 1: Agile
Team 2: Yummy meals on wheels
Team 3: Spotlight
Team 4: Dress me
Team 5: knowledge world

Dr. S. Gayathry announced the Cash prize also. Rs.1000 for the I Prize, Rs.750 for II Prize, Rs. 500 for III Prize, and Rs.250 for the Participation Prize. Team 5 won I Prize Team 1 won II Prize Team 4 won III prize

Participant details

Total No. of Student participation: 18

Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 01

Name of the Event: Internal Hackathon
Date: 28.03.2022 – 01.04.2022

Report:

Key Highlights :
Hackathons allow the team members to explore the underlying problems of our nation in various sectors. The participants try to analyse and evaluate the problem from different dimensions and arrive at a solution. In this process the participants strengthen their soft skills such as communication, leadership, and teamwork, among others. Depending on the problem being solved, it also offers an opportunity to sharpen technical skills such as new work methodologies and project management.

Name of the Event: Becoming a Data Science Professional
Nature of the Event: Career Guidance Programme
Date: 28.03.2022
Mode: Online

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

• Understanding the importance /Impact of Data Science, Big Data and Data Analytics in the present scenario

• Exploring career options in Data Science, Big Data and Data Analytics for IT and Non-IT students

• Gaining expert advice on Data Science, Big Data and Data Analytics related careers and the skills required to become a Data science Professional.

Key Highlights:

•  Mrs. Adela gave a brief explanation on Data Science, Big Data and Data Analytics.

• Students addressed their doubts and got a clear view about this field.

• Importance of Data in the 21st century where clearly picturized to students stressing the career opportunities available for a Data Science professional.

• Mrs. Adela also stated that even non-IT students can try this field of

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 100

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: 5 Day Bazaar
Nature of the Event: Bazaar
Date: 28.03.2022 – 01.04.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights:  Students are exposed to real-time business scenarios. Though they are investing a small amount to buy their raw materials, students are earning equally. Hence, the students get the idea and experience of manufacturing, packing, and selling. And also the demand for their products.

Participant details

•  Total No. of Student participation  : 70

•  Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 04

Name of the Event: Atrangi Bazaar
Nature of the Event: Bazaar
Date: 13.04.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights:  Students learned to maintain customers and started serving them with confidence. All Participants gained experience with the profit. All the 6 stalls have been sold fully. Students are exposed to real-time business scenarios.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation : 15

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 04

Name of the Event: Entrepreneurial Expo
Nature of the Event: Expo
Date: 07.04.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:

The outcome of the activity:

 Key Highlights:  Students exhibited their own ideas, company, products, and services. Students sold some of their products and services while exhibiting their products and services. Students benefited from the suggestions and knowledge shared by  Mrs. T. Vanadhi Devi, who is an expert in Entrepreneurship. Milir Company was launched by her.
Milir company was created by Mrs.P.Amalthi with the help of her Chemistry students. Milir Products: Organic Soaps, dyed shawls and T-Shirts, pesticides, fertilizers, Recycled notebooks, and manures. Some other companies and their products are:

• Aavin outlet

• Stubazaar - Students made products and sometimes acted as resellers.

• Hercraft - E.commerce site which sells students' craftworks

• Techtaught Solutions - This is officially registered under the MSME, and provides online services like aadhaar corrections, pan card application and correction and driving license registration and etc..,

• Vizhithiru youtube channel - All the government job updates are given on this youtube channel.

In the end, prizes were distributed to the students who won in the business model canvas competition which was conducted by Dr. S. Gayathry mam in the previous hands-on training session in business model canvas.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 150

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation:  9

Name of the Event: World IPR Day
Nature of the Event: Seminar
Date: 25.04.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:

The outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights:  Students from B.Com(General), BBA, B.Sc(Comp. Science), BCA departments participated in this seminar.     

Mr. R Venkatesan clearly explained about Intellectual Property Rights - (IPRs) are legal rights that protect creations and/or inventions resulting from intellectual activity in the industrial, scientific, literary or artistic fields. And stated many examples to make the students clear about the IPR. He also explained how to indicate a trademark: Registered / unregistered application pending - ™ Only when registered -  And also explained the examples of different goods like agricultural goods and natural goods and manufactured goods and more.

• Participant details
  Total No. of Student participation : 150
  Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation:  5

Name of the Event: Career Possibilities in Graphics Designing
Nature of the Event: Webinar
Date: 25.04.2022
Mode: Online

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

• Empowering students with knowledge.

• Exploring careers options in Graphic Designing

• Gaining expert advice on Graphic Designing related careers.

• Helping the students in setting career pathway goals toward Graphic Designing

• Clear definitions about Basic Elements of Graphic Designing, Graphic illustration and Marketing & Advertising Design were thought to the students in an understandable way.

• Importance of Graphics Designing in the 21st century where clearly picturized to students stressing the career opportunities available for a Graphics Designer professional.

• Ms.Hemavathy also said that even non-IT students can try this field of a career as there are more scopes even for them.

• Free online certificate course links were offered for the benefits to the students and encouraged to join

• What are the skills and qualification required are clearly picturized to the students

• Ms.Hemavathy  presentation was projected in a neat manner and the content was very easy to understand to the student

Key Highlights       :

• Ms.Hemavathy gave a brief explanation on Graphics Designing.

• She was showing practically about how make the Canva design-https://www.udemy.com/topic/graphic-design/free/https://www.udemy.com/course/how-creatives-teach-online-classes-on-skillshare/?utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=udemyads&utm_campaign=LongTail_la.EN_cc.INDIA&utm_content=deal4584&utm_term=_._ag_118445032537_._ad_533094112755_._kw_._de_c_._dm_._pl_._ti_dsa-1212271230479_._li_1007809_._pd_._&matchtype=&gclid=CjwKCAjwur-SBhB6EiwA5sKtjva1C2FiRTSkqnHUrP3pkV1MrHZyaNMaV0YUP7rzCmx20xMrp1cE8RoC5zoQAvD_BwE

• She taught students with lively practice through this links https://www.mygreatlearning.com/academy/learn-for-free/course/intro-to-graphic-design-with-photoshop

• https://www.canva.com/design/DAE9TLPnXSc/Su-yyl-j7vYE5kA00cbzHw/view#1

• Students addressed their doubts and got a clear view about this field.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 39 to 42

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: EVS Trip
Nature of the Event: Field Visit
Date: 09.04.2022
Report:

Outcome of the activity:

 Key Highlights: 

Students were enabled to,

• Be sensitive to environmental conversation in preventing the natural world from collapsing as a result of human activities.

• Understand the process involved in nature restoration projects.

• Rethink their contribution towards preservation of nature.

• Understand the need to take remedial steps to curb the effects of urbanization on environment.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation: 41

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 07

Name of the Event: Social Entrepreneurship - To commemorate the World Autism Awareness week

Nature of the Event: Field Visit
Date: 07.04.2022

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Outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights:
The final year students conducted various cultural activities such as dance and singing to entertain and also encouraged the special children in MITHRA to dance with them and celebrate the day. The students also provided snacks and gifts for those at MITHRA.

Participant details 

• Total No. of Student participation  : 40

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 02

Name of the Event: Plan De Negocios (Business Plan Competition)
Nature of the Event: Competition
Date: 16.05.2022

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Outcome of the activity:

 Key Highlights:  Students from different colleges participated in Plan De Negocios (Business Plan Competition) which was held on 16 May 2022 (Monday) at T.Thomas Auditorium of Chevalier T.Thomas Elizabeth College for Women. Totally 8 teams participated and presented their ideas on stage. Student teams encountered the queries posed by the judge Mrs. Bonnie Penninah and tried to convince her with their business plan. The judge put herself in the capacity of an investors and customer and made the teams realise the positive and negative aspects of their ideas. She encouraged the students to develop their plans for the future.

• Students Plans: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-aOLNwNz7hYR9-xJqDLFCcM7cxcUKM_8?usp=sharing

Results:

1st Prize - Vignesh Kumar & Tharun

2nd Prize- R. Shravya & S. Shobana

3rd Prize-  Shalini B & Pavithra

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation : Other College students: 15; CTTE Students: 150

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation:  07

Name of the Event: Start-Up: Legal and Ethical Guidelines
Date: 16.05.2022
Report:
Outcome of the activity:

• Empowering students with Start-ups,

• Exploring new ideas and Government Procedures for start-ups.

• Gaining expert advice on how to do registration, incorporation of start-up, founders’ agreement, Ethical Standards to be followed in terms of Advertisement, Licensing   of Business

• Importance of license for starting up the business that allows a business to operate.

Key Highlights:

• She gave a deep insight on Start-Up Initiatives proposed by the Government of India for Registration/Incorporation of Start-Up, Agreement Pertaining to Start Up and Licenses required for a Start-Up.

• She also highlighted the infrastructure related to Zonal Laws, also stated few examples of Startup, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Laws pertaining to the advertisement of Start-Up.

• The resource Person also gave an overview on Intellectual Property Rights, Trade Mark, Indian Patent Act. She made the session interactive by stating few examples of Startup Business.

• The Programme ended with a Question Answer session, wherein students raised questions and clarified their doubts.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation:101

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: International E-Conference

Nature of the Event: Conference
Date: 23.05.2022 – 25.05.2022
Report:

A 3-day International Conference on Data Mining and its Application conducted by the Department of Computer Science association with IQAC AND CFSD Cell. The conference was hosted in G-meet. The aim of this conference is to enrich the student's knowledge and to present their own papers. In this conference, we invited experts from various fields. Besides this event, is aimed to enrich young minds. This was a fruitful interaction among the students and experts to promote the advanced things in data mining and its application in this present situation. Taking the enormity of Data Mining into consideration, the paper consisted of a variety of sub-themes. Participants from various colleges and universities came forward to present their papers. A registration link was provided in the invitation for the registration of participants and the submission of their paper presentation abstracts/papers in PDF format.

OUTCOME:

The outcome of the conference is to specify the new behaviors, learning skills, information, attitudes or knowledge that participants, Speakers and Spectators can expect to acquire after engaging in a learning experience.

 PARTICIPANTS DETAILS:

Total Number of Participants: 172

Meet Links: https://meet.google.com/izs-mzja-cux
Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/jVbSCZSBkns

Day 3 - May 25, 2022 (Wednesday)

Speaker 5 :Mrs. Chitra Singaravelu, IT Manager Enterprise Resource Application, Gwinnett County Government, Georgia, USA.
TOPIC :Business Analytics In Erp-Sap.

Speaker 6 : Dr. D. Sangeetha Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information Technology, MIT, Anna University Campus.
TOPIC : Role of Data mining in cyber attack mitigation against women.
DURATION : 12.00pm-1.15pm.

CHAIRPERSONS FOR POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
Chairperson I: Dr.S.Geetha, Assistant Professor & Head, Dept. of Computer Science, S.T.E.T Women's College.
Chairperson II: Dr.J.kamalakumari, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Applications, AM Jain College.
DURATION : 9.30am -10.30am

Name of the Event: World Telecommunication Day
Nature of the Event: Celebration
Date: 16.05.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:

• Outcome of the activity: It helps to raise awareness about the possibilities that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).

• Key Highlight: The main goal of World Telecommunication Day is to highlight the importance of communication and how information travels across the world. It also aims to increase awareness of how crucial communication is in our lives, and stimulate the development of technologies in the field.

Participant details:

• Total No. of Student participation: 4

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 4

Name of the Event: Career Opportunities for Women
Nature of the Event: Motivational Talk
Date: 13.05.2022
Mode: Offline

Report:
Outcome of the activity:
Students get to know about Central Government Schemes for Women Entrepreneurs. They learnt Entrepreneurial qualities.

Key Highlights :

o   She has motivated and inspired the students by quoting real life examples from the life story of Captain G.R. Gopinath.

o   The entrepreneurial qualities of Captain G.R. Gopinath such as identifying the societal problem and working hard to bring a solution to the problem with lots of perseverance despite of rejections, criticism and humiliations and how to create opportunities instead of waiting for it and trying to raise fund from the right source and at the end accomplishment of his vision of affordable flight tickets to Millions of Indians by establishing Air Deccan.

o   The Resource Person made the students to understand the importance of opportunity exploitation and find out how to explore and exploit business opportunities.

o  She gave examples of how people start businesses from the recipe they learnt from ancestors like Aravind Suresh Founder and Director of Meen Satti Private Limited. Students found this session very informative, knowledgeable, and exciting.

• Participant details:
  Total No. of Student participation: 160
  Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 3

Name of the Event: Importance of Life

Nature of the Event: Workshop
Date: 20.05.2022

Report:

Outcome of the activity:

Key Highlights: He was providing a heavenly service to society by entombing the cadavers of unknown people. Everyone in the audience had goosebumps when he finished his remarks. His address drew around 200 students from a variety of fields, including the psychology department.

Participant details

• Total No. of Student participation : 200

• Total no. of Staff (Teaching/Non-teaching) participation: 4