ExNoRa, a non-government Chennai-based voluntary environmental service organisation, has launched a a massive Cool the Globe campaign by name, “99999 lights out” to create awareness on global warming, its causes, consequences and solutions. The campaign carries the message – switch off lights for 9 minutes at 9 p.m. on the 9th day of the 9th month on the 9th year of the millennium. The aim of the 99999 Lights Out Campaign is to combat Global warming, to make people more conscious about the environment, to motivate people to reduce their respective carbon footprint, to mitigate climate change and to teach people Adaptation and Disaster Preparedness techniques.

College of Chengannur is organising a two day national level technical festival SUMMIT-09 on the 17th and 18th of August 2009.SUMMIT is a biennial technical festival conducted by CEC which aims at augmenting the technical and non-technical skills of young engineering minds

Various events like Best Manager,Webdesigning,Quiz competition,Project Expo,C-Debugging etc are the main attractions of the fest

More information can be obtained from the official site of summit

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham join hands with Buffalo-SUNY University to organise a Indo-Us Conference & Workshop on CYBER Security,CYBER Crime and CYBER FORENSICS from 19th of August 2009 to 21st of August 2009 at at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS), Amrita Lane, AIMS Ponekkara Post, Kochi, Kerala 682 041, India.

This program will have tutorials, and workshop sessions aimed at bringing eminent researchers from both academia and industry under one roof to discuss and deliberate on the best technologies and socio economic approaches to effectively thwart increasing threats of global cyber-crime and initiate cyber security defenses. A stimulating program is being planned featuring invited talks and tutorials from experts from the U.S. and India with panel discussions.

Metro Manorama with Asian School Of business is organising WizQuiz a General Quiz competition for the degree students on the 26th of July 2009 at Tagore theatre Thiruvanathapuram.

Wiz Quiz is a Mega Quiz event in kerala which offers prizes worth Rs 3.5lakhs…

Fresh graduates can also apply for the competition..so get ready and form a team with your Quiz partner and register yourself by sending a mail in the following format to pauljoseph@mm.co.in or hashimjr@mm.co.in

Member- A- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Member- B- Name,class/course,Institution,contact no,Full Address

Team mates need not be from the same college,any number of teams from a college is allowed.

As a part of the intra events of ASTRAL 09,

ETA,the electronics and communication students of SBCe had wonderfully organised and conducted AVIKSHIT-’09 on the first day of intra events.

It consisted mainly of two programmes

1. EXUBERANCE-’09

The search for the best debators of  SBCE.

There were four teams made up of 2 students in the final. Out of which t wo teams were taken at a time and they had a cross debate each other. There were two such sessions and the best two of the four teams selected by the judges had participated in the finals.

Campus Blogging has already become a great initiative in the state with the number of campus blogs growing to  7. Blogging is no more  an alien term in campuses today.With the popularity of the idea of campus blogging growing day by day, a group of campus bloggers from Four Engineering colleges  gathered at Technopark Thiruvananthapuram on the 21st of February 2009.The meeting was organised by Campus blogging Initiative under the leadership of Mr.Kenney Jacob and Mr.Sanil S

Mr kenney started the discussions by introducing the newly desined logo for Barcampkerala by Mr.Jithin Babu of vosree.com. The logo simply explains the barcampkerala-technopark tieup.

CULTA, Inaugurated!!!!!!!!!

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“……….Ride on! Rough -shod if need be,smooth -shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!”

Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse. At the same time, having knowledge is another, being able to express is another. For a complete development of a person’s personality, the power of both knowledge and its articulation play complementary roles. Each is incomplete without the other. At a Literary & Technical club, we find them both given an equal importance.

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A Literary & Technical Club, can acquire the mantle of providing vent to students desiring to express themselves by way of elocution, debates, creative writing, and etc. while at the same time acquiring knowledge by way of frequent discourses and discussions. Organising competitions in extempore speeches, debates, symposia, quizzing etc.