5th Institute Day
5th Institute Day of IIT Palakkad
Unlike the previous years, the Institute Day was held over Zoom and live streamed on YouTube.The programme began with the Invocation song by Ms. Tripti and Ms. Shweta, MSc students.
Dr. Ganesh Natarajan, Dean (Administration), delivered the welcome speech to the audience. The General Secretary of IIT Palakkad, Mr. Muhammed Yaseen, presented the report on the student activities of IIT Palakkad (compiled by the Student Affairs Council) in the past year. As a new addition to the Institute day tradition,we had Mr. Vishal Choudhari, an alumnus of IIT Palakkad second batch, was invited to deliver a speech. This was followed by the Director’s address by Prof. P.B. Sunil Kumar, our Director. Also joining the occasion was Shri. Ramesh Venkateswaran, Chairperson, Board of Governors, who addressed the viewers with his warm wishes.
It was then time for the chief guest of the occasion, Padma Bhushan Prof. P. Balram, Former Director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore to address the members of IIT Palakkad. He explained how the fields of engineering and science go hand-in-hand when it comes to research and developments that benefit humankind. We also had a message from Shri. Sanjay Dhothre Hon’ble Union Minister of State for Education, Communications and Electronics & Information Technology, Government of India on the occasion of the 5th Institute day. In his message, he congratulated IIT Palakkad for actively participating in research and for making good progress in the development of the institute since its inception . The message was delivered to the audience by Dr Ganesh.
As always, students who had achieved excellence in academic and extracurricular activities were awarded. The list of awardees is as follows:
Awards for academic excellence for students who secured the highest CGPA in their respective disciplines:
Undergraduate Students:
B2019
Mr. Naren Loganathan, secured the highest CGPA among the first year Btech Students.
B2018
Mr. Abhiram Manoj K V, 2nd year Btech, Civil Engineering
Ms. Parul Sangwan, 2nd Year Btech, Computer Science and Engineering,
Mr. Tarush Mehta, 2nd year Btech, Electrical Engineering
Mr. Anoop A, 2nd year Btech, Mechanical Engineering
B2017
Mr. Pamu Abitez, 3rd year Btech, Civil Engineering
Mr. Ahmed Zaheer Dadarkar, 3rd year Btech, Computer Science and Engineering
Mr. Roshan P Mathews, 3rd year Btech, Electrical Engineering,
Ms. Sangadala Gayathri, 3rd year Btech, Mechanical Engineering
Masters Students:
M.Sc
Ms. Arpita Panda, 1st year M.Sc, Chemistry
Mr. Suganthan S, 1st year M.Sc, Physics
M.Tech
Ms. Arya Krishna, 1st year Mtech, Geotechnical Engineering
Mr. Sidhin Tom, 1st year Mtech, Manufacturing and Materials Engineering
Prof. Valsakumar Memorial Endowment Award:
Mr.Narendran Chandramouli, M.Sc, Physics (Based on the highest JAM rank)
Mr. Suganthan S, M.Sc, Physics (Based on the highest CGPA)
Achievements in Co-Curricular and Extra-Curricular activities
Co-Curricular and Innovation events
Smart India Hackathon
The IIT Palakkad team which reached the finals in the hardware round of Smart India Hackathon
Divyansh Khare
Abhinav Kumar
Sandra Mary Jacob
Gautham G Kumar
Sushil Kumar
Arjun K Vikram
Competitive Coding
Winners of QUARHACK,the competitive coding competition conducted by the ISTE chapter of CET,Trivandrum
Sirpa Sahul - First Prize
Ahmed Zaheer Dadarkar - Second Prize
Certificates of Appreciation
CSquare Pre-Summer ideation Program:
Saurabh Kumar Pandey - Sanitizing environments through UV
Kailas S Vel - Sanitizing environments through high voltage
Innovation Lab Contests:
Dilip Kalyani - Projection of phone screen using a magnifying screen
CSquare Innovation Lab Web-Development team:
Joel Joy,Jerry John Thomas,Naren Loganathan
Innodeate Bootcamp Poster and Graphics design:
Gautham Giri
Cultural Events
Vadya,the IIT Palakkad music club,stood third at the events conducted at NSS College,Palakkad an GEC,Palakkad.The team members are:
Benhar R
Rithwik P
Ashwin Krishna
Aswin S Vijay
Anand Kumar Sharma
Raj Surya
Jayant Suresh
Divyansh Singh
Storytelling and Quiz competitions
Kanabar Shrujan - winner of the story telling competition conducted by Akshar,the literary club, in collaboration with “Tape-A-Tale”
Third place in the regional round of Jogo Bonito inter-Collegiate quiz competition
Abhishek M S
Anoop A
Winners of the Design-a-logo competition for Kadambini,the women’s forum
Deepu George Kurian
Priyankka G R
Shah Sparsh Mukedhbai
Sports
IIT Palakkad came 5th in overall position in the WIN (Wellness Indoors Now) PAN IIT movement
Winners of the Circuit Challenge by Fitness Club
Shreya M P
Gourav Nishad
Maanas Rokkala
Ananthakrishnan
Based on the performance in Sportacus(Intra IIT Sports Meet) 2020,the most valuable players are:
Athletics : Rakesh Kumar and Meghana Nenavath
Badminton : Chaitanya Reddy and Maria Rose Joseph
Basketball : Purav Kothiya and Suchitra Yechuri
Volleyball : Satish Chandra
Chess : Arjun Thangaraj
Table Tennis : Arjun Thangaraj
Throwball : Nimmala Shirisha
Cricket : Shankar
Football : Antony Paulose
Powerlifting : Gourav Nishad
Virtual General Championship
Winners of online Chess competition : Batch 2019
Atul Kumar
Harsh dubey
Raj Goel
Saransh Kumar
Sayandeep Chaudhary
Winners of Sports Quiz : Batch 2019
Gautam Giri (Batch 2019)
Jose George (PG)
Pushkar Yadav (Batch 2017)
Naren Loganathan (Batch 2019)
Anand Kumar Sharma (Batch 2017)
Notable performances in the FIT India run
Staff and Faculty :
Col.S.Chakraborty, Registrar
Rohit M
Vinayak M
Rex
Dr.Krishna
Students :
Sakila
Manoranjan
Shubhangi Chauhan
Greeshmanth
Naman Purohit
Nishant Singh
Alfred Antony
The event came to an end with the Cultural programmes by the students, where they started with the Institute Anthem followed by an array of wonderful performances from both Vadya and Sync to Beat, the Dance club.
The Vote of thanks was delivered by Col.S.Chakraborty, Registrar.